API Equality Partners with SFSU's Family Acceptance Project to Support API Families with LGBT Children
API Equality is pleased to announce its partnership with the Family Acceptance Project (FAP) at San Francisco State University to develop tools and resources for API families to learn how to love and accept their LGBT children.
The research team at FAP has conducted a major study of how the families of LGBT adolescents react to their child's LGBT identity. FAP has been able to link the behaviors that parents and caregivers use to express acceptance and rejection of their LGBT children with health and mental health concerns, such as drug abuse, suicide, HIV and low self-esteem.
API Equality is working in partnership with FAP to raise awareness of these critical issues in API communities, teach families and providers how to support positive development in their LGBT children, and decrease the risk of suicide, drug abuse, HIV, and other health concerns among LGBT API young people.
To start, API Equality wants to talk with API families with LGBT children to ask their advice on developing education materials for families and providers in the community. Families who would like to learn about this new research to help their LGBT children lead healthy and successful lives and provide advice for these new family education materials should contact Amos Lim at alim@caasf.org or (415) 274-6760 ext. 306. Families will receive a stipend for their participation and time.
Click here for the press release announcing API Equality’s partnership with FAP.
Click here for Chinese and English-language flyers about FAP's briefing sessions with API families.