Event Listing - Conferences, Gay
Sat Oct 11

Queer Families = Healthy Families

A Conference About LGBT Parenting


Website
$80 - $125

Location
Date and Time
San Francisco LGBT Community Center
1800 Market St
San Francisco, CA 94102 map
cross street: Octavia
district: Castro/Upper Market

Sat Oct 11 (9am-5:30pm)

Description
Please join us for a day of exploring a range of issues
specific 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).