This six-hour course is a trauma-informed, justice-driven learning space for birth workers, mental health clinicans clinicians, and care providers.  This training equips participants to provide affirming, trauma-informed care to queer, trans, and nonbinary individuals across the perinatal period. Integrating lived experience, mental health tools, and systemic analysis, the course offers both concrete strategies and reflective practices for better serving the queer and trans perinatal population.  Learning objectives include:

1. Define foundational gender affirming concepts and terminology;

2. Identify unique perinatal mental health risks and resilience factors; 

3. Implement at least 3 concrete changes aligned with trans affirming care. 

Instructors include: Anna Pow, MSW; Ash N. Dasuqi (they/them), RN, BSN, CPM; Marea Goodman, LM, CPM; Vann Jones; Janelle Watson, LMFT, PMH-C, CST; Zari Hedayat, PhD, LMFT; and Alex Villalba, MA, CLES, CFSD. 

This course meets the qualifications for 6 hours of continuing education for LMFTs, LPCCs, LCSWs, LEPs, and psychologists as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences and California Board of Psychology. More information about CEs can be found here.

The curriculum is created, curated and shared by members of the queer and trans community.  As such, we would like to offer the training content to members of the queer and trans community at no cost.  If this is you, please complete this form to receive a discount code.  Users who would like to support Maternal Mental Health NOW's queer and trans programming can make a donation here.