Monterey County Rainbow Connections Gender Diversity Provider Training
The Monterey Behavioral Health Gender Care Training is a comprehensive series of workshops 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. Through this series, participants will build a strong foundation in gender literacy, medical support, and developmental understanding of gender, enabling them to provide the highest standard of culturally attuned, education, medical, and mental health care for gender diverse young people and their families. Sessions will cover crucial topics related to gender diversity and integrating perspectives from youth, parents, and families.
Empowering Communities, Enhancing Care, Celebrating Diversity
Upcoming Trainings
Religious & Spiritual LGBTQ+ Affirming Resources
In this training, participants will explore these sources of spiritual strength with a transgender religious scholar who has published academic works summarizing over 4,000 years of LGBTQ-inclusive religious material, with a focus on tools that providers can use with LGBTQ clients & their families.
Gender Affirming Surgeries
April 17, 2025
This interactive 3-hour training is designed for medical and mental health providers to deepen their understanding of gender-affirming surgeries (GAS) for youth and young adults.
Understanding the SAFETY Act
In this training session, participants will identify three essential impacts of the SAFETY Act, define “forced outing” and identify three impacts of forced outing on LGBTQ youth, & roleplay setting boundaries around students’ privacy to colleagues and caregivers of students. Participants will leave with clarity about their responsibilities in relation to student privacy as well as two tools to organize identity-based student information.
Supporting Neurodivergent LGBTQ Youth
Monterey County Rainbow Connections Gender Diversity Provider Training
Supporting Neurodivergent LGBTQ Youth
May 7, 2025 …
Beyond ‘He’ or ‘She’: Using Nonbinary Pronouns & Getting it Right
Monterey County Rainbow Connections Gender Diversity Provider Training
Beyond ‘He’ or ‘She’: Using Nonbinary Pronouns & Getting it Right …
Exploring Coming Out Processes & Building Resiliency with LGBTQ Youth
Monterey County Rainbow Connections Gender Diversity Provider Training
Exploring Coming Out Processes & Building Resiliency with LGBTQ Youth …
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Session are 180 min long including time for Q&A.
CE Credits Available
The Gender Health Training Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Gender Health Training Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.