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Navigating Stress: Supporting LGBTQIA+ Kids Through Mental Health Challenges
Growing up is a complex journey for everyone, and for LGBTQIA+ kids and teens, the path can be especially tricky. From navigating identity to facing social stigma, LGBTQIA+ youth often encounter unique challenges and stressors that can impact their mental health. Read more >>
Talking with Teens About Consent
Talking with teens about consent can feel awkward, but it’s a critical conversation for their safety and well-being. In this Voices of Compassion episode, we talk about consent with CHC psychologist and Director of Clinical Training, Dr. Carlina Wheeler. Join Read more >>
10 Strategies to Talk with Teens About Sex
It’s important to make sure young people learn not only the correct facts about sexuality, but also how to make healthy and safer decisions about sex. Research shows that parents who talk openly about sexuality to their children have more Read more >>
Teaching Older Children and Teens About Consent
Asking for consent means asking someone for permission to do something. An example might be asking if it’s okay to touch someone or be physically close to them. Someone gives consent when they know exactly what they are being asked Read more >>
Understanding Transgender People, Gender Identity and Gender Expression [downloadable]
Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth. Gender identity refers to a person’s internal sense of Read more >>
Characteristics of Healthy & Unhealthy Relationships
Respect for both oneself and others is a key characteristic of healthy relationships. In contrast, in unhealthy relationships, one partner tries to exert control and power over the other physically, sexually, and/or emotionally. Healthy Relationships Healthy relationships share certain characteristics Read more >>
Digital Mental Health and Identity Affirmation Tool for LGBTQ+ Youth [website]
Hopelab, in collaboration with CenterLink, and It Gets Better Project, created imi, a free, digital, research-backed, mental health and identity affirmation tool. Read more >>
Trans Youth Equality Foundation [web resource]
The Trans Youth Equality Foundation provides education, advocacy and support for transgender, nonbinary and gender non-conforming children and youth and their families. Read more >>
Gender-Diverse & Transgender Children
Research suggests that gender is something we are born with; it can’t be changed by any interventions. It is critically important that children feel loved and accepted for who they are. Read more >>
The Gender Creative Child guides parents and professionals through the rapidly changing cultural, medical, and legal landscape of gender and identity. Read more >>
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CHC Palo Alto:
650 Clark Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304
650.326.5530
CHC South Bay:
2280 Kenwood Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128
408.831.7512
CHC Ravenswood:
1765 E Bayshore Rd, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
650.702.2487
