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Family Acceptance Project has new Asian-language posters for families with LGBTQ kids
--From a press release
2021-05-19

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San Francisco, CA, May 19, 2021 …… In conjunction with Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month in May, the Family Acceptance Project at San Francisco State University is releasing a series of 8 new Asian language posters to share critical information from FAP's peer-reviewed studies and family support work to help prevent suicide and other serious health risks and to promote well-being for AAPI LGBTQ children and youth. This includes new language versions of FAP's Poster Guidance and Healthy Futures posters on the impact of family accepting and rejecting behaviors on risk and well-being for LGBTQ young people in Chinese (traditional and simplified), Hindi, Korean, Japanese, Punjabi, Tagalog and Vietnamese. The poster series is currently available in English and Spanish. Other versions in Arabic and African languages and for American Indian families are forthcoming.

High levels of risk for LGBTQ adolescents for suicide, substance abuse, depression and victimization call for evidence-based approaches that increase support and connectedness, starting with families. Family support plays a major role in helping to buffer racism and rejection, urgently needed now as violence against people of Asian descent has rapidly increased. FAP's research has identified more than 100 specific rejecting and accepting behaviors that increase risk for suicide, depression, drug use, HIV and other health risks and promote well-being. FAP's posters give parents and caregivers the language to help reduce their LGBTQ children's risk and strengthen their families.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, FAP has partnered with Dr. Lance Chen-Hayes, a national AAPI advocate for LGBTQ people and their families who is affiliated with API Rainbow Parents of PFLAG NYC. Dr. Chen-Hayes, collaborating with other community leaders, coordinated a volunteer group of 40 Asian native language speakers to translate FAP's Healthy Futures poster series into major Asian languages to distribute across the U.S. and in other countries. This includes AAPI parents with LGBTQ children, allies and LGBTQ adults who volunteered to ensure that the posters are relevant for family members and others in their first languages. This is especially important for AAPI communities since nearly three-quarters of Asian adults in the U.S. were born in other countries.

Dr. Chen-Hayes said: "In my work with API LGBTQ people and their families in the U.S. and around the world, I am always looking for culturally and linguistically accessible and effective educational materials. Very few exist and the Family Acceptance Project's Healthy Futures posters are an extraordinary contribution to our community and our families. When pandemic travel restrictions created an opportunity for U.S. based AAPI PFLAG community leaders to collaborate online, I was able to reach more families around the globe and proposed this multilingual translation project. It was met with so much enthusiasm and will increase family acceptance of LGBTQ people in AAPI communities worldwide."

Marsha Aizumi, co-founder of PFLAG's first API chapter, said: "These posters are a tremendous resource for API families who don't often have the words and actions to support their LGBTQ children in their native language. If I had resources like these when my transgender child first came out over ten years ago, I would have struggled less and supported more intentionally. Fortunately, we gave our son the message that he would always have a place to belong, which we learned from FAP's research. This was critical for Aiden to believe he is worthy of being loved and finding the happiness and success he lives today."

Said Dr. Caitlin Ryan, the Family Acceptance Project's founder and Director: "Our work to increase family acceptance for LGBTQ youth is grounded in the family's culture and values. We need to educate and guide parents and families on how to support LGBTQ young people using their first language that expresses core values. Expanding the language base for FAP's multilingual family educational materials will help us reach across cultures to strengthen family connections, reduce risk and build healthy futures for LGBTQ children and youth. This is urgently needed during the pandemic when LGBTQ youth have been separated from peers and other key sources of support."

FAP's Healthy Futures poster series and poster guidance are available to download for free in 4 sizes in camera-ready versions in 10 languages from FAP's website. The posters will be disseminated as part of a communications campaign to decrease family rejection and health risks and to increase acceptance and well-being for LGBTQ children and youth. The campaign includes other evidence-based educational resources for families, youth, providers and religious leaders to promote family acceptance and increase access to mental health and support services.

Grants from the Oregon Health Authority and the Upswing Fund for Adolescent Mental Health, a collaborative fund powered by Panorama, have enabled the Family Acceptance Project to increase the breadth of resources for culturally and linguistically diverse families with LGBTQ children.

The Family Acceptance Project is a research, intervention, education and policy initiative, affiliated with San Francisco State University, that is designed to: 1) prevent risk, including suicide, substance abuse and homelessness, and promote well-being for LGBTQ children and adolescents in the context of their families, cultures and faith communities; and 2) implement and disseminate the first research-based, family model of wellness, prevention, and care to build healthy futures for LGBTQ children and youth.

For more information and to download copies of the posters, visit familyproject.sfsu.edu/ .


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