This webinar will provide an overview of best practice guidelines for working with transgender/gender diverse youth in care while exploring barriers that residential agencies face with licensors and other state mandates.  Attnetion will be paid to assessing and improving agency policies and procedures to infuse trans-affirming practices.  

Presenter:  Ashley WArhol, Psy.D., Director of Clinical Services, Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health - MA & RI

Youth Voice is now a term in our professional lexicon, used to describe the concept of and commitment to encouraging, supporting, hearing, and learning from individuals with lived experience in our organizations and systems of care. Gone are the days of adults and professionals ‘knowing what’s best’ for the young people we serve without first hearing and considering the experiences and thoughts of those at the receiving end of assessments, diagnoses, treatment plans, and placement decisions.