Growing Equitable Library Services
CT Libraries and Serving the LGBTQ+ Community
With Rebecca Degnan, LPC Prism Counseling and Support LLC
Session 3: Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth
Monday, May 8 | 9:30 am – 11:00 am
Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth is a one-and-a-half hour professional development training that focuses on helping library staff understand the challenges
LGBTQ+ youth face and ways they can support and affirm LGBTQ+ youth who are patrons of their library. Recommended for all library staff, including librarians, administrators, managers, volunteers, etc.
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Common terms and acronyms so we have a shared language
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Defining gender
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Important statistics
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Pronouns
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How you as library staff can support LGBTQ+ youth
Recording & Slides: Please plan to attend this program as scheduled
as it will not be recorded and slides will not be shared.
Goals of the Series
The goal of these workshops is to educate the staff of the CT State Library about LGBTQ+ identities, the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ youth and adults, and how they
can best support and affirm LGBTQ+ individuals as patrons and employees in the library setting. This is in line with the mission of the GELS program, to “provide the trainings that help libraries become strength-based, trauma-informed, antiracist, social and
emotionally conscious community institutions.”
 Rebecca
Degnan is the founder, owner and manager of Prism Counseling and Support LLC, and currently the sole clinician. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and
has a passion for working with LGBTQ+ youth and their families. She received her Master of Science degree in counseling at CCSU in 2012. She has worked as a school counselor at the middle school level for over 6 years. She is proud to have started her school’s
first Gay-Straight Alliance while working there and provided professional development trainings for staff at other middle and high schools about how to support LGBTQ+ youth in our schools. She is the very proud mother of two kids, her 13-year-old daughter
and her 15-year old son who is transgender. Find her at https://www.prismcounselingct.com/.
Coming up in the CT Libraries and Serving the LGBTQ+ Community Series:
- Session 4: Fostering an Inclusive Environment in Your Organization
Monday, May 15 | 9:30 am – 11:00 am | Register
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