Free Webinar! Context and Practice: Trauma-Informed Approaches to Building Affirming Environments for LGBTQ+ Youth

Please join us for a free webinar titled "Context and Practice: Trauma-Informed Approaches to Building Affirming Environments for LGBTQ+ Youth", which is brought to you by Defending Childhood in partnership with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and Futures Without Violence. 

Date: Thursday, August 24th, 2016

Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Eastern Standard Time / 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Central Standard Time / 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Mountain Standard Time / 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Pacific Standard Time / 10:00 am - 11:30 am Alaska Standard Time / 8:00 am - 10:30 am Hawaii Standard Time

** Please note that the listed times reflect the same time in different time zones. The webinar will be held only once. 

Please click here or on the link below to register now! 

Registration Link:

http://futureswithoutviolence....nt/registration.html 

Webinar Description: 

In this workshop participants will explore the identities and experiences of LGBTQ+ youth who face a variety of structural and interpersonal traumas. We will provide a brief overview of LGBTQ+ youth inequities, and explore the challenges of domestic violence in LGBTQ+ communities along with its impact on youth. We will conclude by sharing the benefits of trauma-informed care for LGBTQ+ youth and share approaches that can be used in participants’ daily programming and care efforts.

After this training, participants will be better able to:

• To increase knowledge of LGBTQ youth identities and structural realities 
• To share perspective on unique challenges of domestic violence in LGBTQ communities 
• To address the impact of domestic violence on children and youth 
• To introduce a trauma informed care approach for supporting LGBTQ youth

Presenters:

• Martel Okonji, Youth Development Coordinator, Children, Youth & Family Services, Los Angeles LGBT Center
• Devika Shankar, Program Coordinator, Family Violence Intervention Services, Los Angeles LGBT Center
• Krystal Torres-Covarrubias, OUT for Safe Schools™ Coordinator, Public Policy, Los Angeles LGBT Center 

Facilitated by:

Jennifer Rose, Consultant, Futures Without Violence

Questions? Contact Mie Fukuda at mfukuda@futureswithoutviolence.org 

This project was supported by Grant No. 2011-MU-MU-K011 awarded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of view in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official positions or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.