Enhancing Knowledge, Confidence, and Comfort Working with LGBTQ+ Youth Kickoff Meeting

  • 14 May 2025

In April, CTC-RI hosted the kick-off and first content session for the Enhancing Knowledge, Confident, and Comfort in Working with LGBTQ+ Youth project. Thank you to Unitedhealthcare for funding support for this important project. We welcomed the following practices to the project:  

  • Aquidneck Pediatrics 
  • Atlantic Pediatrics 
  • Direct Doctors, Inc. 
  • P.R.I.M.A. Pediatrics 
  • Waterman Pediatrics 

Our first session held on April 25th covered LGBTQ+ Youth Basics, focusing on key terminology, health disparities, developmental considerations, and best practices for working with LGBTQ+ youth. Special thanks to our faculty for this session: Logan England (he/him), LICSW at Youth Pride RI.  

We would also like to thank the following steering committee members for all their help in putting this effort together: 

  • Patricia Flanagan, MD (she/her), Clinical Director and PCMH Kids Co-Chair, CTC-RI 
  • Michelle Mooney, MPA (she/her), Program Coordinator II, CTC-RI  
  • Syd LaBonte, LICSW, C-ACYFSW (they/them), Program Coordinator and Social Worker, Adolescent Medicine Gender & Sexuality Program, Hasbro Children’s Hospital  
  • Emily Allen, MD, MPH (she/her), Attending in Adolescent Medicine, Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University 
  • Jason Rafferty, MD, Med, MPH (he/him), Medical Director, Gender and Sexuality Program, Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University 

For those who missed our first session, the slides and session recording are available for access. 

To request CME credit for our first session, please follow this link.  

For questions about this project, please email Phos Ivestei (he/they) at pivestei@ctc-ri.org.