Know Your Rights for Providers Working with LGBTQ Youth in Care

Kelsey Pacha

Training Description

This training will educate providers about the laws that protect LGBTQ youth in care in California, as well as alert them to procedures for reporting anti-LGBTQ discrimination and how to support a client’s name and/or gender change. Participants will participate in a group assessment regarding knowledge of these laws, learn procedures for filing various types of discrimination reports, and complete a case study in small groups. They will also consider what recourse a client at their agency (or other context) may have in reporting discrimination against a fellow provider and strategize about how to support such clients in advocacy.

Learning Objectives

• Test our knowledge about laws that protect LGBTQ youth in care in CA.

• Discuss laws that protect LGBTQ youth in the foster care and educational systems in CA.