Continued Learning Opportunities
In this section you will find a variety of research, information, and tips on advocating for specific needs. Check back often as new resources will be added frequently.
LGBTQ Youth
Overview of LGBTQ Identities
Infographic that quickly explains gender, sexuality, attraction
Definitions of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Terms
A glossary of terms used to describe gender identity and sexual orientation
Amitesh Parikh explains how gender and sexual orientation intersects with immigration status and identity
Supporting LGBTQ Youth: A Guide for Foster Parents
A guide that gives an overview of the prevalence of LGBTQ youth in foster care, misconceptions of LGBTQ youth, and how to support them academically, socially, and physically.
Caring for LGBTQ Children and Youth
A guidebook for child welfare professionals that includes a glossary of LGBTQ terms and ways to be an advocate for LGBTQ youth.
LGBTQ Healthcare
It can be difficult for LGBTQ folks to feel comfortable disclosing their sexual orientation or gender identity to health care providers, and finding gender-affirming health care providers can also be a challenge. The following articles are a resource to help LGBTQ individuals navigate health care.
- Information on LGBTQ health care
- Database to help patients find knowledgeable providers
- Transgender Health: What You Need to Know
- Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Health Issues
- Gay and Bisexual Men’s Health Issues
LGBTQ Resources for Child Welfare Professionals
A resource guide for child welfare professionals with many LGBTQ-specific documents
Supporting LGBTQ Youth
About LGBTQ+ Youth in Foster Care
An overview of what LGBTQ+ youth face in the foster care system
Resources provided through the Child Welfare Information Gateway on how to better understand the unique needs of LGBTQ youth and permanency planning
Tips for Caregivers of LGBTQ+ Youth
Tips for caring for LGBTQ+ youth. This short guide also shares what parents and families should know about supporting lesbian, gay, and bisexual teens.
LGBTQ Resources for Child Welfare Professionals
A resource guide for child welfare professionals with many LGBTQ-specific documents
Helping Parents & Caregivers Understand, Accept, and Celebrate LGBTQ Youth
An article that explains how parents, caregivers, and CASA advocates can support and celebrate LGBTQ youth
CASA Deep Dive: Supporting LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care
An article sharing how CASA advocates can support LGBTQ youth
Conversations with CASA: Riki Wilchins, Executive Director of TrueChild
This interview from Texas CASA discusses LGBTQ+ identity, expression, and concepts like challenging gender norms, implementing non-binary language and normalizing pronouns. Riki Wilchins offers tips for CASA volunteers on how they can help ensure a safe, trusting space for all children and youth.
Supporting LGBTQ Youth: A Guide for Foster Parents
A guide that gives an overview of the prevalence of LGBTQ youth in foster care, misconceptions of LGBTQ youth, and how to support them academically, socially, and physically.
Caring for LGBTQ Children and Youth
A guidebook for child welfare professionals that includes a glossary of LGBTQ terms and ways to be an advocate for LGBTQ youth.
Domestic Violence
Overview of Domestic Violence in Foster Care
Child Welfare and Domestic Violence
A fact sheet that provides data and information on the prevalence of domestic violence in the child welfare system.
Child Welfare and Domestic Violence: The Report on Intersection and Action
A report that discusses different risks associated with domestic violence and child welfare, as well as different tools and policies in the child welfare system used to help youth.
Summit on Child Welfare and Domestic Violence
The Prizker Center at UCLA held a summit on the intersection of domestic violence and child welfare. There are recordings of their speaker series on their website that discuss this relationship.
‘Unsafe in Foster Care’ Investigates How a System to Keep Kids Safe Can Harm Them
A short NPR Podcast that discusses the prevalence of domestic violence in the child welfare system with stories of children in the child welfare system and intersections with race and poverty.
Promoting Protective Factors for Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
This discusses how helping youth build protective factors, such as developing emotional regulation skills and strong relationships, can “buffer” the effects of domestic violence to limit the scope of risks associated with early exposure to violence.
The Importance of a Trauma-Informed Child Welfare System
An article that gives an overview of trauma-informed care and the importance of using this approach in child welfare.
Child Witness of Domestic Abuse
Domestic Violence and Child Abuse
An article that discusses the different ways that witnessing domestic abuse can affect children at different stages of development and how witnessing domestic violence might impact behavior.
Fostering the Child Witness of Domestic Violence
An article that talks about the effects of a child witnessing domestic violence, and how to help a foster child that has experienced domestic violence.
Parenting a Child Who has been Sexually Abused
A guide for foster and adoptive parents parenting a child who has been sexually abused. Includes information about sexual abuse and guidelines for developing privacy and safety rules for the house.
‘Unsafe in Foster Care’ Investigates how a System to Keep Kids Safe Can Harm Them
An NPR article that talks about child removal in situations of domestic violence in the home.
Intimate Partner Violence in Child Welfare
An article that discusses the effects that witnessing domestic violence in the household has on children at different ages, and ways to advocate for child witnesses of domestic violence.
Promoting Protective Factors for Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
This discusses how helping youth build protective factors, such as developing emotional regulation skills and strong relationships, can “buffer” the effects of domestic violence to limit the scope of risks associated with early exposure to violence.
Youth and Intimate Partner Violence
Relationships and Sexuality: How to Support Youth in Foster Care and Adoption
An article that draws the connection between experiences youth might have in the child welfare system and how that affects their intimate relationships in adolescence and beyond. The author also offers suggestions on how to support youth struggling with intimate relationships.
Risk and Resilience: Intimate Partner Violence Exposure
A paper that discusses different personal and environmental factors that can increase risk for intimate partner violence in youth’s relationships, and signs of intimate partner violence in youth.
The Connection Between Teen Dating Violence and Unhealthy Behaviors
A fact sheet that discusses the prevalence of teen dating violence and risk factors associated with previous exposure to violence.
Dating Matters Virtual Training
An online training made for youth-serving professionals that teaches warning signs of unhealthy relationships, and how to promote healthy relationships while preventing abusive relationships. The training is free and lasts about 60 minutes.
A Brief Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Aggression Perpetration
A resource that outlines an approach to an intervention regarding a teen’s possibly abusive partner. Provides step by step instructions as a way to approach the topic.
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Coercion
A tip sheet made by the National Center on Domestic Abuse, Trauma, and Mental Health that helps to identify coercion in relationships as a form of abuse.
When Someone You Know is Being Abused
A tip sheet made by the National Center on Domestic Abuse, Trauma, and Mental Health that helps guide a someone about approaching someone that they suspect is a victim of domestic abuse.
Immigration
Overview of Immigration and Foster Care
Tips for Talking about Immigration
The Immigrant Learning Center provides tips for talking about immigrants and immigration
Acculturation and Adjustment for Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URMs)
A guide providing more information on the cultural, social, and mental transition for URMs
U.S. Citizen Children Affected by Immigration Enforcement
An article that reviews statistics on immigration, and it reviews different ways that stress due to immigration status affect children such as their health and educational outcomes.
Immigrant Child Health Toolkit
A toolkit created by the American Academy of Pediatrics that discusses different challenges that immigrant youth face and immigrant-specific health conditions that they might face including physical and mental health issues.
Integration Barriers: Perspectives from Refugee Youth
A series of graphics that review common problems that immigrant youth face, such as language barriers and cultural adjustments, and how that might impact them. The graphics also offer some solutions on ow to address those problems.
Immigration Related Trauma
Trauma has the capacity to negatively impact many parts of an individual’s life and immigration-related trauma can especially impact your CASA child. The following articles, webinars, and infographics are important resources for learning more about immigration-related trauma and delivering trauma-informed care.
Understanding Immigrant Trauma
An article that shares learning resources for understanding immigrant trauma
Tackling Immigrant Anxiety and Trauma
Jessica Gomez, Director of Clinical Innovation at Momentous Institute, discusses strategies for tackling immigrant anxiety and trauma specifically within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
Immigrant Trauma and How to Deal With It
Infographic briefly explaining immigrant trauma and its impact, as well as helpful tips for how to offer support
Presenting with Politics: The Psychological Effects of Current Immigration Policy and Sentiment
Clinical Psychologist Dr. Usha Tummala-Narra discusses the context, causes and symptoms of immigrant trauma, as well as best practices to respond to it
Tips for Agencies Working with Immigrant Families
Shares warning signs of trauma and violence exposure, how to help children exposed to violence, and a few cultural responsiveness tips
Intersectionality in Immigration
Dr. Kim Tabari discusses issues of economic and racial equity in the context of immigration
Amitesh Parikh explains how gender and sexual orientation intersects with immigration status and identity
Learning about Other Cultures
The traditions and customs of an individual’s culture influences their upbringing, values, and development. Learning about your CASA child’s cultural background can contextualize and inform your experiences with them.
Latino Cultures
- Understanding Hispanic culture
- Latinx and Hispanic Culture in the US
- An overview of Latino and Latin American identity
- 12 movies celebrating Latinx and Hispanic culture
West African Cultures
Mental Health
Overview of Mental Health in Foster Care
Common Mental Illnesses
Learn more about common mental health diagnoses and behaviors in children. Each link includes descriptions and commonly used interventions, as well as specific resources and organizations that address each topic.
- Anxiety
- Depression
- ADHD
- Self-injurious Behavior
- Eating Disorders
- Oppositional and Defiant Disorder
- Suicide
To read about other common behaviors or diagnoses, visit the full Family Resource Kit.
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
The AACAP is dedicated to treating and improving the quality of life for children, adolescents, and families affected by these disorders. They have also developed Facts for Families to provide concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families. After downloading the files, CASA Volunteers can print and distribute the PDF files as needed.
Children in foster care are prescribed psychotropic drugs at more than four times the rate for all children. These drugs are effective for treating the mental illnesses they are designed to alleviate, but there is a growing concern that children in foster care are being overmedicated, sometimes as a form of behavior control. Your CASA child may be taking psychotropic drugs to address their mental health concerns, but side effects can impact an individual physically and mentally.
This website shares information on how to take psychotropic medications safely. Learn more about side effects of psychiatric drugs here.
Preventing, Identifying, and Treating Substance Use Among Youth in Foster Care
An article that discusses the prevalence and causes of substance use among youth in foster care, and how to identify and support youth struggling with substance abuse.
Substance Use
Preventing, Identifying, and Treating Substance Use Among Youth in Foster Care
An article that discusses the prevalence and causes of substance use among youth in foster care, and how to identify and support youth struggling with substance abuse.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
SAMHSA is a part of the Department of Health and Human Services. Their website has a multitude of educational resources about mental health, substance abuse, and child welfare. They have also compiled a list of relevant, needs-specific help hotlines.
Parental Substance Use and the Child Welfare System
A webinar on a study done to explore the relationship between adult substance use and the maltreatment of children and the after effects on children.
Substance Abuse, Behavioral and Mental Issues Among Children and Youth in Foster Care
A CASA resource that identifies the intersection of mental health and substance abuse of youth in foster care. It offers strategies to advocate for youth.
Advocating for a Child Whose Parent Has a Substance Use Disorder
A resource from CASA Sussex County that gives advice on how to advocate for a child when there is parental drug use.
A resource for teens whose parents have a substance abuse disorder that answers commonly asked questions about substance abuse, and it provides support chat groups for teens.
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Trauma
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been shown to have long term negative consequences if unaddressed, which is why we offer so many resources on trauma below. Fast facts for ACEs are listed here.
Trauma-Informed Practice with Foster Care Youth
Results of a study conducted on trauma experienced by foster youth and recommendations on trauma-informed approach to working with foster youth.
How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
This TED talk presented by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris dives into the lifelong impact and developmental effects of repeated stress from abuse, neglect, and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues.
Dr. Rebecca Campbell explains the neurobiology of sexual assault trauma, including how the body and brain respond to trauma, implications for improved response to sexual assault, how victims behave during and after an assault, etc.
Long-term Consequences of Child Abuse
A fact sheet on the emotional and physical impact of child abuse.
Understanding Trauma and Recovery
An educational resource specifically for CASA volunteers working with youth who have experienced trauma, written by a CASA volunteer.
Parenting a child who has been sexually abused
This guide provides advice on how to parent a child or youth who has been sexually abused, including signs and behaviors for identifying sexual abuse in children and youth.
Caught by WNYC Studios: “I want someone to love me even for a second”
This podcast episode discusses the impact of trauma on girls in the foster care system, including the sexual abuse to prison pipeline. Desiree shares her experience with trauma and how that’s impacted other spheres of her life.
Why Children Stay Silent Following Sexual Violence
This TED talk presented by Kristin Jones shares how caregivers can foster an open conversation about abuse to empower kids and encourage them to ask for help.
Transition Age Youth
Housing
Provides questions to help youth determine if they are prepared to find stable, affordable housing after aging out of foster care
The US Department of Health and Human Services offers an array of information, resources and tips on assisting youth who are preparing to transition out of foster care and into independence. They have also compiled support services for youth transitioning out of foster care.
Transition Aged Youth Triage Tool
A tool that helps child welfare professionals identify transition age youth that are at the highest risk of becoming homeless after leaving the child welfare system and foster homes.
Youth with disabilities
Transitioning Youth with Disabilities Out of Foster Care
This website shares action-oriented steps you can take to help an individual with disabilities transition out of foster care
Finances
Findings from a study on the financial lives of youth transitioning from foster care to adulthood
A toolkit for youth transitioning out of foster care made by the Children’s Bureau. It includes resources to get youth’s finances in order and resources for financial literacy.
What You Need to Know About Your Supplemental Security Income When You Turn 18
A resource created by the Social Security Administration that details what you need to know about your SSI when you turn 18 and steps that are necessary to take.
Credit Building for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care
A webinar that discusses the importance of building credit and how to do it while transitioning out of the child welfare system.
Credit Report Errors and Identity Theft
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created a guide on what to do if there are errors in a foster child’s credit report or if there is evidence of identity theft.
Additional Resources
Foster Care Transition Toolkit
A toolkit created by the U.S. Department of Education that has several items to consider when transitioning out of the foster system, such as finances, housing, education, and healthcare. This toolkit has a multitude of resources for child welfare professionals and youth to utilize.
A checklist of 21 things to do before transitioning out of foster care that includes building support networks and getting rental references for housing.
A document that reviews different topics that are often overlooked by youth transitioning out of foster care.
A life skills assessments that helps youth identify their strengths and weaknesses. This is a good resource for youth to learn about what they need to improve on while they are transitioning out of foster care. The assessment includes topics like building healthy relationships, budgeting, and household chores.
Guiding Principles for Working With Transition Aged Youth
A guide for child welfare professionals that offers suggestions and tips for working with young adults in a trauma informed way.
This website offers a few different workbooks for learning life skills such as Job Readiness, Financial Management, Health and Safety, and Personal and Social Relationships. The books are broken down into small activities that volunteers can work on with teens.
Disabilities
Autism
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
A brief overview of Autism Spectrum Disorder, including signs and symptoms, diagnosing, and other factors
Championing Autistic Youth in Foster Care
This article shares tips for how CASA advocates can support autistic youth in foster care
National CASA Podcast: Autism Spectrum Disorder
Stacy Shook, a board certified behavior analyst and the director of Northwest Behavioral Associates in Seattle, discusses Autism Spectrum Disorder, how it may be treated, and possible services for children and their caregivers
National CASA Podcast: Speaking Up for Autism
This interview is a follow up to the previous podcast, “Autism Spectrum Disorder.” It is the story of a CASA volunteer from Coweta CASA in Newnan, GA, who advocated for a child diagnosed with autism. You will hear what resources she used and recommendations she made in order to ensure the best possible outcome for the child she served.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is an umbrella term used to describe the range of effects that can occur in an individual whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy. These effects may include physical, mental, behavioral, and/or learning problems. Substance abuse during pregnancy can also result in long-term effects on children throughout development.
Interpreting Psychological Evaluations
A psychological evaluation is a set of assessment procedures administered to obtain information about a student’s learning, behavior, or mental health. While these assessments can assist educators in meeting each student’s specific needs, there are some clear limitations to be aware of. Commonly administered psychological and intelligence evaluations are listed below, along with descriptions and explanations on how to interpret the results. These resources will be useful if your CASA child undergoes a psychological evaluation.
- Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV)
- Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT)
- Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (A brief overview of the three Beery VMI subtests can be found here)
- Personality Assessment Inventory – Adolescent (PAI-A)
Transition Age Youth
Transitioning Youth with Disabilities Out of Foster Care
This website shares action-oriented steps you can take to help an individual with disabilities transition out of foster care
Additional Resources
Anti-Racism and Cultural Competency Resources
Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)/Prince George’s County recognizes our role in addressing systemic racism by tackling disproportionality and disparity in our child welfare system. We stand in unequivocal opposition to racism, bias and prejudice in all forms.
Maryland CASA Association’s Anti-Racism Toolkit
A compilation of books, TV shows, movies, podcasts and other resources for both adults and children
Resources on diversity, equity and inclusion from CASA.
Intersectionality
Intersectionality is a framework for recognizing the overlap of an individual’s identities and how aspects of a these identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege. Understanding this concept will help you ensure your conversations with youth and families are coming from a place of understanding, support, and respect.
Antiracism
Antiracism incorporates actively becoming conscious about race and racism, and taking intentional actions to end racial inequities in our daily lives. Maryland CASA has also provided a list of many antiracism resources that you can watch, read, and listen to. A handout from The Racial Healing Handbook delves into antiracism and includes action-oriented steps for how to become an antiracist.
Learning about Other Cultures
The traditions and customs of an individual’s culture influences their upbringing, values, and development. Learning about your CASA child’s cultural background can contextualize and inform your experiences with them.
Latino Culture
- Understanding Hispanic culture
- Latinx and Hispanic Culture in the US
- An overview of Latino and Latin American identity
- 12 movies celebrating Latinx and Hispanic culture
West African Cultures
Research on Child Welfare
Trauma-Informed Practice with Foster Care Youth
Results of a study conducted on trauma experienced by foster youth and recommendations on trauma-informed approach to working with foster youth.
Long-term Consequences of Child Abuse
A fact sheet on the emotional and physical impact of child abuse.
Findings on a study on the financial lives of youth transitioning from foster care to adulthood.
Recommendations on how to develop authentic youth-adult partnerships with your foster youth.
Media Portraying the Child Welfare System
Excellent film that portrays the experience of youth who are removed from their families and placed in foster care.
Human Trafficking Awareness Media
Compilation of videos, documentaries, podcasts, books, and apps detailing stories of human trafficking survivors to raise awareness and encourage participation in combating human trafficking.
Working With and Advocating For Specific Needs
Understanding Trauma and Recovery – A Resource for CASA Volunteers
A resource for CASA volunteers working with youth who have experienced trauma, written by a CASA volunteer.
Parenting a Child Who has been Sexually Abused
A guide for foster and adoptive parents parenting a child who has been sexually abused. Includes information about sexual abuse and guidelines for developing privacy and safety rules for the house.
Helping a Child who’s Parent Is Incarcerated
This federal website provides interactive tools and other resources to help youth-serving organizations and community partnerships plan, implement, and participate in effective programs for youth.
Advocating for Pregnant and Parenting Teens
Understanding the legal rights of the youth you work with is one way to help address these challenges. Healthy Teen Network and the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law collaborated to provide answers to some common questions practitioners face when advocating for pregnant and parenting teens. The answers can be helpful in your advocacy efforts.
Resources for Working with Young Children
The Sesame Street Workshop introduces a new neighbor, Karli, who is living with her “for-now parents” which is a great resource for helping young children understand foster care. They also have a variety of resources, coloring sheets and activities available for providers.
Advocating for Child’s Education Needs
The above handbook along with the following brochure concerning the educational rights of children in care serve as guides in understanding and coordinating a CASA Child’s education. By registering for the Prince George’s County Family Portal, volunteers can oversee their CASA Child’s education and even check their grades here.
Human Trafficking
Online Human Trafficking Training
Online training resources teaching sex and labor trafficking victim identification, along with how to work with victims of trafficking
Human Trafficking Awareness Media
Compilation of videos, documentaries, podcasts, books, and apps detailing stories of human trafficking survivors to raise awareness and encourage participation in combating human trafficking
National Human Trafficking Resources
Brief review of nationwide human trafficking statistics, the different elements of human trafficking, and resources available nationwide for recognizing and reporting human trafficking.
Uses data from the Department of Health and Human Services to discusses child trafficking and the higher risk that children in the child welfare system are at to be trafficked.
Child Trafficking and the Child Welfare System
A fact sheet with data about child and sex trafficking for kids in the child welfare system.
Discussion different types of trafficking, different ways children are trafficked, and how caseworkers can talk about human trafficking to children and how to prevent instances of trafficking.
COVID-19 Resources
A guide to supporting adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. This guide is a summary of a webinar, where participants learned to acknowledge grief experienced by adolescents during the pandemic and how to establish continued communication between advocates and their youth
Understanding COVID-19 For Kids
Story for kids that presents questions that characters Trinka and Sam have about the coronavirus and ways to answer them.
Presenta algunas de las preguntas que tienen Trinka y Sam sobre el gran virus y formas de responderlas.
Recursos para Hispanohablantes
Sample Maryland Department of Education IDEA Complaint
Information on Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) complaint for Maryland Department of Education.
Muestra de la queja de la Ley de Educación para Individuos con Discapacidades (IDEA) del Departamento de Educación del Estado de Maryland.
About the Developmental Disability Administration (DDA)
Fact sheet about the DDA
Hoja informativa de la Administración de Discapacidades de Desarrollo
This family resource guide provides information in Spanish about common mental health diagnoses and behaviors in children, such as ADHD, anxiety disorders, depression, self-injurious behavior, etc.
Esta guía de recursos familiares proporciona información en español sobre los diagnósticos y comportamientos de salud mental comunes en los niños, como el TDAH, los trastornos de ansiedad, la depresión, el comportamiento autolesivo, etc.
Trauma Resources in Spanish
Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Entendiendo las experiencias adversas en la infancia (ACEs)
Calculate ACEs Score
What is my ACEs score?
Cuál es mi Puntuación de Experiencias Infantiles Adversas (ACE)?
How to Help a Child Manage a Relationship with an Abusive Parent
Provides information for parents on how to talk to children about domestic violence.
Ofrece información para los padres sobre cómo hablar con los niños sobre violencia doméstica.
Managing Difficult Behaviors in Children Living in Domestic Violence
Provides information for parents on how to talk to children about domestic violence. This fact sheet talks about managing challenging behaviors in children living in a domestic violence environment.
Ofrece información para los padres sobre cómo hablar con los niños sobre violencia doméstica. Esta hoja informativa habla sobre cómo manejar comportamientos difíciles en niños que viven en un entorno de violencia doméstica.
12 Core Concepts of Traumatic Stress
Concepts for understanding reactions to traumatic stress in children and their families.
Conceptos para entender las reacciones al estrés traumático en los niños y sus familias.
Psychological First Aid
Psychological First Aid (PFA) summarizes eight core actions. This card is a quick reminder of the eight main actions involved in Psychological First Aid.
Resume los primeros auxilios psicológicos (PFA) ocho acciones centrales. Esta tarjeta es un recordatorio rápido de las ocho acciones principales involucradas en Primeros auxilios psicológicos.
LGBTQ+ Resources in Spanish
What is Sexual Orientation?
Explanation of sexual orientation with a glossary of common terms (Spanish)
Explicación de la orientación sexual con un glosario de términos comunes
Basic Concepts of Sexual Orientation
Pamphlet that explains basic concepts of sexual orientation (Spanish and English)
Folleto que explica los conceptos básicos de orientación sexual
What Does it Mean to be Trans?
Pamphlet that explains the gender binary and pronouns (Spanish and English)
Folleto que explica los pronombres y binarios de género
Talking about Gender & Sexual Orientation
Toolkit for parents and caregivers on how to start conversations about gender and sexual orientation (Spanish and English)
Kit de herramientas para padres y cuidadores sobre cómo iniciar conversaciones sobre género y orientación sexual
Entre Nos
Animated novela about family acceptance (Spanish with English subtitles)
Entre Nos es una series de dibujos animados que se trata de la aceptación familiar. En la primera parte, seguimos a una familia en su camino de aceptación de su hijo gay.
GLAAD Resources for Families
Explains how to support a child who identifies as LGBT and includes resources for supportive organizations and helpful articles (Spanish)
Explica cómo apoyar a un niño que se identifica como LGBT e incluye recursos para organizaciones de apoyo y artículos útiles
NOTE: Neither CASA/Prince George’s County nor its staff endorse or promote any third-party websites or organizations. All are provided for informational purposes only.
