Foster Care Training

This highly interactive and informative cultural competency training supports those who serve and/or support system-involved LGBTQ youth in providing trauma-informed care. Learners will define trauma and identify several types of trauma (i.e. complex, cultural, developmental, historical). Attendees will review two models of gender identity development (Kohlberg’s Cognitive Developmental Model of Gender Identity Development & Veale’s Identity Defense Model of Gender Variant Development) and one model of sexuality identity development (D’Augelli), and and identify ways that trauma can impact identity development in children. Learners will also identify four specific sources of individual & social trauma for LGBTQ youth—bullying, discrimination, family rejection, and anti-LGBTQ policy—and identify three ways to support resiliency among LGBTQ youth. Participants will review four principles of trauma-informed care & apply these principles to a case study involving LGBTQ youth.