CE Webinar
Supporting Families of Transgender Youth
with Luca Valentine, LMSW, CMFT
Friday, January 31 | 9:00 am PT/12:00 pm ET
Duration: 1.5 hours
Transgender youth face unique obstacles, and it can be difficult to know how to effectively guide their families. This population of marginalized young people has higher rates of eating disorders, substance use, and suicide attempts, and also faces anti-trans policies and rhetoric. In this webinar, we’ll look at ways for families to come together to support these youth as we enter another election cycle.
After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:
1. Discuss political and election-related rhetoric aimed at trans bodies, healthcare, and rights
2. Discuss these issues through the lens of the minority health model to identify distal and proximal stressors
3. Identify family strengths based on cultural beliefs and practices, emphasizing cultural humility in the process
Speaker bio
Luca Valentine, LMSW, CMFT
Luca is a social worker licensed in the state of Georgia. They identify as queer, non-binary, Jewish, and white, as well as ADHD and autistic. They graduated in 2012 with a bachelor’s in psychology and earned their MSW from the University of Georgia in 2017. Luca specializes in working with transgender and neurodivergent people with eating disorders, using DBT-informed interventions.