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Thursday, December 10, 2015
8:00 am - 9:30 am
All are welcome! Bring a friend!
(1111 O'Farrell St. at Franklin, San Francisco)
Please do not park in the St. Mark's parking lot as those
spaces are rented to others. Parking is available
across the street at St. Mary's Cathedral.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST HOST:
Robert A. Rees, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Vice President
Caitlin Ryan, Ph.D., ACSW
Director, Family Acceptance Project
San Francisco State University
Caitlin Ryan, Ph.D., ACSW is a clinical social worker who has worked on LGBT health and mental health for 40 years - with a focus on preventing risk and promoting well-being for LGBT children and adolescents. Dr. Ryan is the leading resource on LGBT children, youth and families. She founded the Family Acceptance Project (FAP) at SF State University 15 years ago to launch the first research, education, intervention and policy initiative to help ethnically and religiously diverse families to support their LGBT children. This work includes conducting the first comprehensive research on how families express acceptance and rejection of their LGBT children and how specific family rejecting behaviors contribute to health risks, such as depression, suicide, substance abuse, homelessness and HIV and how family accepting behaviors help protect against health risks and promote self-esteem and well-being. Based on this research, Dr. Ryan and her team have developed the first evidence-based family intervention model to help families learn to decrease rejection to prevent health risks and to increase family support to promote positive outcomes for LGBT children and youth in the context of their families, cultures and faith communities.
Dr. Ryan has published multiple peer-reviewed studies and resources, practice guides and multicultural, research-based family education materials, including the first multilingual and faith-based "Best Practice" resources for suicide prevention for LGBT young people; award-winning family education and training films that show how ethnically and religiously diverse families learn to support their LGBT children; and targeted training approaches to teach health and mental health, school-based, out-of-home providers and religious leaders how to help families learn to support their LGBT children in multiple contexts. Dr. Ryan has received awards for her work from the major mainstream professional associations and from many LGBT and community organizations. She works with local, national and international organizations to disseminate FAP's family-based prevention and wellness model to prevent risk and support the well-being of LGBT children and adolescents across a wide range of practice disciplines and systems.
The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young
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