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
Supporting Youth Through Gender Transition
This training will educate providers about how to support transgender and nonbinary youth with any of three types of gender transition—social, medical, and legal.
Debunking Myths About Trans Youth
This training will educate providers about common myths that often cause parents to deny children’s authentic gender identities and limit their access to gender-affirming care.
Reproductive Health Care for Trans, Nonbinary and Gender Expansive Persons: Fertility Options, Contraception, and Abortion for the Trans Community
This presentation will use a reproductive justice framework to explore current and future fertility options, contraception and abortion in the context of accessing puberty blockers and hormones. There will be an opportunity for Q&A and discussion.
How to Fill Out a Gender Support Plan for Child Welfare & Educational Providers
This training not only introduces the GSP framework to providers, but also provides opportunities to practice filling in a Gender Support Plan, to modifying a GSP for their individual context, and to navigate potentially difficult conversations with youth, their caregivers, and/or their teachers or other school staff.
What’s Your Pronoun? Neopronouns & Pronoun Best Practices in Action
In this training, we will discuss best practices for asking someone about their correct pronoun, how to introduce yourself using gender pronouns, and what to do if you misgender someone.
Using Non-Violent Communication to Support Family Acceptance of System-Involved LGBTQ Youth
This training will discuss common anti-LGBTQ spiritual/religious beliefs and how to have conversations about caregivers’ values, beliefs, and practices that validate and respect them, while also supporting family acceptance for their LGBTQ children.
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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.