Monterey County Rainbow Connections Gender Diversity Provider Training

How to Fill Out a Gender Support Plan for Child Welfare & Educational Providers

February 26, 2025

CE’s 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.

How to Fill Out a Gender Support Plan for Child Welfare & Educational Providers

Gender Support Plans (GSPs), originally developed by Gender Spectrum, are structured frameworks that delineate a person’s correct name, gender identity, and gender pronoun, and provide information about in what contexts a person would like to be out with these parts of their identities. GSPs were originally meant to be used in youth-led meetings in educational contexts to aid school-based therapists, counselors, teachers, and other staff in navigating supporting a gender diverse young person’s identity in different contexts. GSPs keep track of a student’s legal name & gender and correct name & gender across various school-based records, from student databases, lunch cards, athletics, to documentation for domestic or international school trips. 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. Learners will leave with increased familiarity with GSPs as it relates to their professional role, as well as tools to respect student privacy as defined by California state law (AB1955: The SAFETY Act, AB1266: School Success & Opportunities Act) & CDE policy guidelines.

What we will cover?

  • How to fill out Gender Support Plans with youth of all ages.
  • How to navigate respecting a young person’s wishes in different contexts (i.e., at school, in extracurricular activities, and in their homes.)

Learning objectives:

  • Review the Gender Support Plan template.
  • Identify three scenarios where a GSP may be used.
  • Review two ways GSPs help meet legal obligations associated with AB1266, the School Success & Opportunity Act, AB1955, the SAFETY Act, SB 731, Respecting Gender in Foster Care Placements, and AB2119, Gender Health in Foster Care.
  • Fill out GSP in a roleplay scenario.

Presenter

Luke Pacha is the owner of Infinite Diversity LLC. He holds a Master of Religion and Psychology, Master of Divinity, and Certificate of Sexuality and Religion from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Psychological Services from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.

Luke straddles the worlds of academia/theory and practice, serving as the Board President of Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, a national non-profit organization that publishes a 705-page resource guide of the same name, by and for the trans, gender expansive, and nonbinary communities. Through this work, he connects with leading transgender and gender expansive scholars in medicine, law, mental health, social sciences, politics, and culture to collaborate on editions of Trans Bodies. He recently authored the Religion and Spirituality chapter of the second edition of the book, released April 15, 2022, and served as Survey Editor, managing a nationwide qualitative survey of over 2,000 respondents quoted in the book, and editing several chapters. Luke co-authored an academic review of methodologies used to survey transgender & nonbinary people based on the Trans Bodies Second Edition Survey, “Surveying trans and nonbinary communities: Research methodologies, accountability, and ethics with the Trans Bodies, Trans Selves Survey (2nd edition),” published in Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity in 2022.

Luke also co-authored the Religion and Spirituality chapter in the surgical textbook Gender Confirmation Surgery: Principles and Techniques for an Emerging Fieldedited by Loren Schecter, released 2020. He has been featured as a subject matter expert on gender pronouns in Rolling Stone, Grammarly’s Guide to Personal Pronouns,  and NPR Cap Radio about best pronoun practices in the workplace. He has also been interviewed on NPR’s The Takeaway and been published in LGBTQ Nation. More information can be found about Luke at infinitediversityllc.com.

How to Fill Out a Gender Support Plan for Child Welfare & Educational Providers

February 26, 2025
1:30 – 4:30 pm PT

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.

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Session is 180 min including time for Q&A.

3 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.

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