Substance use and mental health: Supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ youth

Substance use and mental health: Supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ youth

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

Date: October 12, 2022
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST
Facilitators: Leora Rich, MSW, RSW and Natalie Kalb, PhD, C.Psych.

Description: This training will build capacity for service providers to better engage and provide support to 2SLGBTQIA+ youth in managing challenges with their substance use and mental health.

Participants will learn how to identify and understand the needs of 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals. The session will begin by reviewing common terminology and definitions related to sexual orientation and gender identity. This is to ensure that all participants build the foundational knowledge required to best support 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and young adults.

Participants will explore the reasons why 2SLGBTQIA+ youth use substances and increase understanding to better facilitate engagement and interventions. The facilitators will discuss the prevalence of mental health challenges among 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. Emphasising understanding the role that proximal and distal factors have on the development of substance and mental health challenges. Using an intersectional framework, anti-oppressive and anti-colonial lens, special attention will be given to understanding the unique needs and challenges of racialized 2SLGBTQIA+ youth.

Lastly, participants will have opportunities to learn new engagement strategies, clinical approaches and how to develop 2SLGBTQIA+ affirming care practices (such as direct application/interventions, rapport building, engagement, family education).

Registration fee: $125. Group rates are available.
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For full program overview and registration details please visit: https://cvent.me/RL8B2E