Family Support
Family support and acceptance is critical to the health and wellbeing of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer.
Peer Support Group
Supporting An LGBTQIA+ Individual in Your Life
Parents and family members can often struggle with lack of information, fear, grief, and anxiety about their child's future. This peer-to-peer support group offers open and safe discussions that allow participants to share their experiences and feelings.
If you choose to join virtually, zoom access is available by contacting: mountainprideec@gmail.com
Family Acceptance Project
The Family Acceptance Project™ is a research, intervention, education and policy initiative that works to prevent health and mental health risks for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) children and youth, including suicide, homelessness and HIV – in the context of their families, cultures and faith communities.
UNDERSTANDING GENDER
Understandings of gender continually evolve. In the course of a person’s life, the interests, activities, clothing, and professions that are considered the domain of one gender or another evolve in ways both small and large.
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Human Rights Campaign
Just As They Are
This resource will help parents recognize when and how conversion therapy is promoted, provides information about the dangers of the practice, and offers guidance to parents regarding practices that promote their child’s health and well-being.
PFLAG FAMILY
PFLAG (Parents, Families, Friends of Lesbians and Gays) Questions and answers for parents, families, and friends of people who are transgender and gender-expansive.
MY KID IS GAY
My Kid Is Gay is a first-of-its-kind digital presence, inclusive of videos, advice, and resources, dedicated exclusively toward helping parents understand their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual children. My Kid Is Gay sources voices from across the world to help answer the many questions that parents (and family members, and even teachers!) have about the LGBTQIA young people in their life, including advice from parents, youth, and experts on a variety of topics related to sexuality and gender identity.
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