Home Is Where the Heart Is: Conversations to Love and Affirm Your LGBTQIA+ Children (Parent Café Booster Pack)
This is a conversation deck with 150 questions based on the five Protective Factors for parents whose children are identifying as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. While most approaches to this issue rest heavily on training for parents about the importance of acceptance for long-term positive outcomes for children, these Cafés are for parents who don’t need to be convinced. They love their children, they want to support them, and they are wrestling with their own feelings, values, fears, and limiting beliefs.
The foundation for the deck is: 1) the assumption of parents’ unconditional love for their children and their willingness to practice self-awareness and to surface and interrogate their biases, and 2) full knowledge of the benefits of listening and talking through thorny subjects in the safe context of Parent Cafés. The design team is a collaboration of parents with lived experience supporting their children’s gender and sexual orientation journey to discover and live true to who they are, as well as professionals who have devoted their professional lives to assisting LGBTQIA+ youth and the adults who love them.
This deck is co-created with our partners Family Builders and Gender Spectrum.
This is a conversation deck with 150 questions based on the five Protective Factors for parents whose children are identifying as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. While most approaches to this issue rest heavily on training for parents about the importance of acceptance for long-term positive outcomes for children, these Cafés are for parents who don’t need to be convinced. They love their children, they want to support them, and they are wrestling with their own feelings, values, fears, and limiting beliefs.
The foundation for the deck is: 1) the assumption of parents’ unconditional love for their children and their willingness to practice self-awareness and to surface and interrogate their biases, and 2) full knowledge of the benefits of listening and talking through thorny subjects in the safe context of Parent Cafés. The design team is a collaboration of parents with lived experience supporting their children’s gender and sexual orientation journey to discover and live true to who they are, as well as professionals who have devoted their professional lives to assisting LGBTQIA+ youth and the adults who love them.
This deck is co-created with our partners Family Builders and Gender Spectrum.
This is a conversation deck with 150 questions based on the five Protective Factors for parents whose children are identifying as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. While most approaches to this issue rest heavily on training for parents about the importance of acceptance for long-term positive outcomes for children, these Cafés are for parents who don’t need to be convinced. They love their children, they want to support them, and they are wrestling with their own feelings, values, fears, and limiting beliefs.
The foundation for the deck is: 1) the assumption of parents’ unconditional love for their children and their willingness to practice self-awareness and to surface and interrogate their biases, and 2) full knowledge of the benefits of listening and talking through thorny subjects in the safe context of Parent Cafés. The design team is a collaboration of parents with lived experience supporting their children’s gender and sexual orientation journey to discover and live true to who they are, as well as professionals who have devoted their professional lives to assisting LGBTQIA+ youth and the adults who love them.
This deck is co-created with our partners Family Builders and Gender Spectrum.
