Foster Care Training

This highly interactive and informative cultural competency training supports those who serve and/or support to system-involved LGBTQ youth in providing trauma-informed care. Attendees will review two models of gender identity development and one model of sexuality identity development, identify four 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 system-involved youth. Participants will define trauma-informed care & apply these principles to a case study involving LGBTQ youth. Participants will practice applying principles of trauma-informed care within efforts to support LGBTQ youth through a video case study.