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Using Trauma-Responsive, LGBTQ+ Affirming Care to Connect Young People to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services

Best Practices, Post-Permanency Programming, Serving Diverse Adoptive and Guardianship Families

2022

11-50 pages

Child Trends/Activate Center

Emma Pilskin, MPH, Asari Offiong, PhD, MPH, Julia Tallant, BA, and Melissa Kull, PhD, MS

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Defines trauma-responsive and LGBTQ+ affirming care, outline principles for providing this type of care, and presents scenarios for how youth-supporting professionals can incorporate this care into their practice. Although examples are related to sexual and reproductive health services, applies to serving LGBTQ+ children and youth in other programs as well.

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