90 Minute Workshop

Category: Adolescents & Young People

Presentation Date & Time: 03/27/98 11:00:00

The Risk Reduction Program at the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles has been providing health care and psychosocial services to transgender youth with HIV since 1990 and to transgender youth at very high risk since 1994. To date, The Risk Reduction Program has provided care to over 40 male to female transgender youth ages 15-23 and has learned a lot about effective interventions with this population, unique HIV prevention and treatment issues, and the barriers transgenders face when seeking services. Through this presentation, a team of staff members including a physician, a psychologist and a transgender youth educator will address the following issues:

1) Utilization of a harm reduction model in the provision of medical and psychosocial care to high risk and infected transgender youth.

2) The importance of life skills training in risk reduction programs for transgender youth.

3) The barriers preventing transgender youth from accessing available prevention and treatment services.

4) The steps agencies can take to make their staff and service environment more sensitive to transgender and transsexual youth needs.