The Biden-Harris administration has awarded federal funding to promote training for military families that encourages parents to affirm their children's chosen gender identity.
The $850,000 grant project, known as Centerstone's LGBTQI+ Family Support Program (Family+), will provide “affirmative interventions to 230 youth and their families” and will provide 100 of these “evidence-based interventions.” The purpose is to train human staff. According to To explain the grant.
“Services will be provided at Centerstone's Stephen A. Cohen Military Family Clinic in Fayetteville, North Carolina, home to the U.S. Army's largest installations, Fort Liberty Army Base (formerly Fort Bragg) and Pope Air Force Base. ” says the grant description. state. “Family Plus is focused on serving targeted youth among the region's estimated 37,800 active duty military children and 82,475 child veteran households. Masu.” (Related: Biden administration writes big checks to activists using schools as recruitment sites for LGBT 'family therapy' programs)
This grant is funded through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Centersone's website offers a variety of mental health services resource It was developed using grant funding. one suggest Individuals who identify as LGBTQ can “set goals” to reduce the effects of “minority stress,” such as attending an “LGBTQIA+ support group” for five weeks or “reading a positive book for 20 minutes every day for seven days.” I am doing it.
“Centerstone's Stephen A. Cohen Military Family Clinic is here to serve the mental health needs of all members of the military community,” Centerstone told DCNF.
SAMHSA pointed to DCNF the program goals outlined in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).
“With this program, SAMHSA aims to prevent or reverse the onset of serious mental health and substance use conditions and disorders and build healthy futures for LGBTQI+ youth by increasing family inclusion and support. ” says NOFO. state.
One of the interventions that the Family+ program implements is Affirm Caregiver. I ask for To improve parents' “positive caregiving attitudes and behaviors and confidence in caregivers' ability to engage in positive caregiving skills with LGBTQ+ youth.” According to National Center for Youth with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities, and Expressions.
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A study of “caregiver-affirming intervention,'' piloted with foster parents in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, found that it was effective in persuading parents to adopt “positive parenting behaviors.'' It turned out to be. The pilot program funded As part of a five-year, $10 million federal grant project awarded in 2016. (Related: Exclusive: Biden-Harris administration paves way for bureaucrats to take gender-confused children from 'non-affirming' parents)
“AFFIRM Caregivers remind participants that being affirmative is not simply the absence of homophobia or transphobia, but rather the presence of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that are clear, explicit, and consistent in affirming an identity. “We are asking people to recognize that there is,” the study says. explain. “Furthermore, participants consistently explored and reflected on the implicit and explicit biases they had absorbed from early childhood from family, social, and cultural messages that may influence current caregiving attitudes and behaviors.” I am.”
Documents previously obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show that a survey of caregivers before the program began included recommendations for establishing “safe spaces” for LGBTQ identities and “affirming identities” for young people. They are asked to rate their confidence in areas such as providing “support.”
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