Moving Beyond Change Efforts: Evidence and Action to Support and Affirm LGBTQI+ Youth (3 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course explores current research and evidence-based practices for supporting and affirming LGBTQI+ youth. The course describes behavioral health concerns and stressors for gender diverse youth and offers client-centered approaches for youth and their families. The course highlights the importance of ensuring access to gender-supportive and gender-affirming care while emphasizing the harms of SOGI change efforts.
This course is recommended for social workers and counselors and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Course Reading: Moving Beyond Change Efforts: Evidence and Action to Support and Affirm LGBTQI+ Youth- Sections 2 and 3
Publisher: SAMHSA
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring best practices for supporting and affirming gender-diverse youth.
Learning Objectives: Describe behavioral health concerns and stressors for gender diverse youth. Identify client-centered approaches for youth and their families. Describe the process of gender affirmation and the importance of ensuring access to gender-affirming care.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 3 cultural competence continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.