Trainings

Monterey County Rainbow Connections Gender Diversity Provider Training

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The Monterey Behavioral Health Gender Diversity Training is a comprehensive workshop series designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of medical and mental health professionals, educators, and community members in supporting transgender and gender diverse youth and their families. This series will help participants build a strong foundation in gender literacy, medical support, and developmental understanding of gender, enabling them to provide effective, culturally attuned, gender affirming care.

Family Dynamics and Assessments in Gender-Affirming Care: Collaborative Strategies for Mental Health Professionals

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This course is designed to equip providers who work with and assess gender-diverse clients—across all ages—with the essential skills and knowledge to apply a gender-affirmative, collaborative approach to evaluations and treatment that is inclusive of the family system.

Recognizing Bias: Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls in Gender Affirming Care

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This course focuses on recognizing and managing unconscious biases to enhance care for gender diverse clients. It delves into different biases, their impacts in gender affirming care, and offers strategies for effective bias management. The course is aimed at fostering ethical and culturally sensitive practices in clinical settings.

Helping Families on Gender Journeys: A Developmental Lens

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This course will help providers who work with gender-diverse clients across the lifespan understand the basics of gender affirmative care using a collaborative developmental model for working with transgender, non-binary, gender-expansive children, adolescents, young adults, and their families that is inclusive of the many intersections of identity we all hold.

Primary, Reproductive, and Sexual Health Care

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This Webinar will help mental health providers who work with transgender/gender diverse people and those who assess them for gender affirming care navigate the latest changes in the WPATH Standards of Care, version 8 and know how to implement them in your practice and evaluations.

Where to start: Gender journeys & competencies

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This webinar will help providers who work with gender diverse clients across the lifespan understand the basics of gender affirmative care using a collaborative developmental model for working with transgender, non-binary, gender expansive children, adolescents, young adults and their families that is inclusive of the many intersections of identity we all hold.

Understanding the Mental Health Provider’s Role: Puberty Blockers and Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy

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This Webinar will help mental health providers understand the approach to treatment, what to explore in an assessment, and what needs to be addressed when referring gender diverse youth for puberty suppression or adolescents and adults for gender affirming hormone therapy even in complex cases or when co-occurring mental health symptoms are present.

Mental Health and Co-occurring Issues

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This Webinar will help mental health providers or any provider managing complex cases involving co-occurring issues understand the approach to treatment, what to explore in an assessment, and what needs to be addressed to give gender diverse people with co-occurring mental health symptoms access to gender affirming medical care.

Eunuch & Non-Binary Assessment

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This Course will help mental health providers who work with nonbinary or eunuch people across the life span navigate the latest changes in the WPATH Standards of Care, version 8 and know how to implement them in your practice and evaluations with these populations. It will also help any provider managing complex cases understand when a comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment is called for and when it’s not.

Integrating Changes in WPATH Standards of Care

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This course will help you integrate SOC8 into your assessments and medical referral letters while navigating a medical world steeped in SOC7, all while getting CEs.

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