LGBTQIA+ Parenting Strengths: Implications for Policy-Engaging Scholarship and Practice
Presenter: Rachel H. Farr, Ph.D.
Policies have the potential to support and empower caregivers who are raising LGBTQIA+ children and youth. The intersection of LGBTQ+ focused research, practice, policy, and law can have a far-reaching impact within the queer community and for their families, as well as by professionals whose work is focused on or within the queer community. As such, strategies for conducting policy-engaged, translational scholarship are needed, as are strengths-based approaches for practitioners (e.g., clinicians, health care and child welfare professionals, teachers and administrators, and the legal profession).
The webinar presenter, Rachel H. Farr, Ph.D., will provide attendees with a strengths-based research summary of LGBTQIA+ parenting and child and family outcomes and empirically based recommendations, as they are generally applicable to all families. Tools for theoretical, conceptual, and strengths-based and community-oriented methodological approaches will be shared. Techniques to integrate new and foundational approaches while engaging mixed method techniques and intersectional perspectives will be discussed.
Attendees will leave this webinar with the ability to:
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Incorporate new conceptual and theoretical approaches relevant to diverse families (e.g., LGBTQ+ families) in scholarship and practice;
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Use the recommended strengths- and community-based methodological approaches in scholarship and practice; and
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Engage in translational efforts to bridge research to policy, legal, and practice settings.
Intended audience: Practitioners and researchers who work in policy arenas or whose work is impacted by policy as well as those interested in learning how to translate research to affect change in policy decisions
Approved for 1 hour of CFLE continuing education.
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About the Presenter
The views expressed by the webinar presenter are their own.
Rachel H. Farr, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Farr’s research focuses on diverse families, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) parenting, families formed through adoption, and the impact of diversity within adoptive families, including issues of race (e.g., transracial adoption), gender, and birth family contact. Dr. Farr’s research includes a 15+ year longitudinal study on how parental sexual orientation relates to child, parent, and family outcomes among diverse adoptive U.S. families. Dr. Farr is currently examining the lived experiences of racially and socioeconomically diverse youth with LGBTQ+ parents, particularly as related to identity, discrimination, coping, peer and family relationships, and community supports (William T. Grant Foundation supported). Dr. Farr’s work has been published in top-tier developmental psychology journals and has garnered national media attention (e.g., the New York Times, Huffington Post, Washington Post, and National Public Radio). Dr. Farr’s research findings are relevant to policy, practice, and law surrounding about LGBTQ+ parenting and adoption; she has been cited in numerous amicus briefs for U.S. Supreme Court cases.
Dr. Farr is the current editor of NCFR Policy Briefs and a co-author of the brief LGBTQ+ Parents and Their Children (2021).
Family Science research can help inform decisions that affect families at the federal, state, and local levels. The purpose of NCFR Policy Briefs is to educate policymakers and others who have an investment in families. Briefs are based on high-quality research; are educational, non-partisan, and objective; and are written by experts in the field.
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