Queer Families = Healthy Families
A Conference About LGBT Parenting
- When
- Sat Oct 11, 2008
- Where
- San Francisco LGBT Community Center
- Time
- 9am-5:30pm
- Cost
- $80 - $125
- Tags
- Conferences, Cultural Conferences, Gay, Gay Conferences, Gay Culture, Gay Community, Gay Education
Description
Please join us for a day of exploring a range of issuesspecific to LGBT parents and their families.
Workshops will address topics such as insemination, adoption, legal issues, attachment dynamics, gender issues, queer families of color, transgender parents, queer dads, and school advocacy.
6 CEUs available for MFTs and LCSWs • MCEP accreditation pending
FEATURING:
• Charlotte Patterson, Ph.D., premiere researcher on child development in lesbian-
and gay-parented families
•Shannon Minter, NCLR Chief Legal Counsel for the Marriage lawsuit at the State Supreme Court
• A film by Ground Spark and Debra Chasnoff, producer of “It’s Elementary.”
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
•Professionals in the fi elds of mental health, law, education, social work, medicine and allied health fields LGBT community organizers and advocates
• LGBT parents and their children
• Prospective parents and their allies
• Interested community members
Co-sponsored by New Leaf, National Center for Lesbian Rights, COLAGE, and the Lesbian Health Research Center (UCSF).
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