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Family Resources

Family support and acceptance is critical to the health and well-being of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer.

Parent Peer Support Group

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.

For more information about upcoming Parent Peer Support Groups please email: madison@mountainpride.org

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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Education and Learning

We’re never done learning how to best support LGBTQ+ youth in our lives. These resources serve as a jumping off point to help you get started!

Human Rights Campaign

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.

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.

Friends & Family Support Systems for LGBTQ Youth

Parents, family and friends can have a big impact, especially in the lives of LGBTQ youth. Sometimes, these people are the ones who help us get the support we need – other times, it’s us who connect them with life-affirming resources.

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Other Support Organizations

Family support and acceptance is critical to the health and well-being of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer.

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.

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.

Trevor Project

An organization dedicated to serving LGBTQ+ Youth through crisis services, resources, peer support, education, and advocacy.