A Practitioner's Resource Guide: Helping Families to Support Their LGBT Children |SAMHSA

A Practitioner's Resource Guide: Helping Families to Support Their LGBT Children |SAMHSA

A Practitioner's Resource Guide: Helping Families To Support Their LGBT Children This publication offers information and resources to help practitioners throughout health and social service systems implement best practices in engaging and helping families and caregivers to support their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) children.

LGBT Populations: A Dialogue on Advancing Opportunities for Recovery From Addictions and Mental Health Problems This publication recaps a meeting to identify factors that promote or hinder recovery from mental illness or substance abuse for lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) individuals and to gain an understanding of their perspectives and experiences in advancing recovery.

Ending Conversion Therapy: Supporting and Affirming LGBTQ Youth This publication presents research, clinical expertise, and expert consensus on therapeutic practices related to children's and adolescents' sexual orientation and gender identity, and makes the case for eliminating the use of conversion therapy among this population. Offers information and resources to help practitioners throughout health and social service systems implement best practices in engaging and helping families and caregivers to support their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) children. Download Digital Version Family Support for LGBT Kids-Resource Guide(PDF, 1 MB) You May Also Be Interested In A Provider's Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender IndividualsInforms clinicians and administrators about substance abuse treatment... Top Health Issues for LGBT PopulationsEquips prevention professionals, healthcare providers, and educators with... LGBT Populations: A Dialogue on Advancing Opportunities for Recovery from Addictions and Mental Health ProblemsRecaps a meeting to identify factors that promote or hinder recovery from... Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High SchoolsAssists high schools and school districts in designing and implementing... SAMHSA News: From Youth to Adulthood: Offering HelpFeatures an initiative to help young people with mental illness transition into... To Live To See the Great Day That Dawns: Preventing Suicide by American Indian and Alaska Native Youth and Young AdultsLays the groundwork for community-based suicide prevention and mental health... Related Resources 1 - 4 of 906 Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (HHS, SAMHSA) http://store.samhsa.gov/product/Preventing-Suicide-A-Toolkit-for-High-Schools/SMA12-4669?WT.ac=AD20120820HP_4669 To live to see the great day that dawns: Preventing suicide by American Indian and Alaska Native youth and young adults -Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) http://www.sprc.org/sites/sprc.org/files/library/Suicide_Prevention_Guide.pdf  Upon the back of a turtle... A cross cultural curriculum for federal criminal justice personnel - University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Indian Country Child Trauma Center and National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) http://www.icctc.org/CC%20manual/cc%20manual-1.htm  Addressing the needs of women and girls: Developing core competencies for mental health and substance abuse service professionals- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (HHS, SAMHSA) http://store.samhsa.gov/shin/content/SMA11-4657/SMA11-4657.pdf