The 5-hour training for providers working with LGBTQ+ youth survivors covers:

Creating Safe Spaces for LGBTQ Youth

• Intentionality around visual cues and inclusive language
• Nondiscrimination policies and their importance in creating safe space
• Bystander intervention and responding to anti-LGBTQ+ bias
• Working with youth who are not out

Centering the Margins

• Strategies and critical information for supporting youth survivors who are LGBTQ and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
• Strategies and critical information for supporting youth survivors who are transgender
• Strategies and critical information for supporting youth survivors who are bisexual

Cyber Stalking and Digital Abuse

• Navigating the unique dynamics of cyber stalking and digital abuse for LGBTQ+ youth survivors
• Outing as a tool of abuse

Coming Out and Outing

• Understanding the impact of coming out and outing on LGBTQ+ youth survivors
• Forced outing and anti-trans bills across the United States
• Learning how to support survivors with safety planning considerations around outing

Sexual Health

• Understanding stigma and shame around sexual health for youth
• Practicing age-appropriate sexual health conversations for youth K-12
• Understanding PrEP, PEP, birth control, and safer sex strategies
• Communicating health information with youth survivors

Gender Affirming Care

• Distinguishing between social, legal, and medical transition
• Best practices for discussing puberty blockers
• Barriers to gender affirming care across the country
• Gender euphoria and the positive effects of gender affirming care for LGBTQ+ youth