Biden Admin Dumped Hundreds Of Thousands Into Ensuring Military Parents Affirm Their Child’s Gender Identity
The Biden-Harris administration awarded a federal grant to facilitate training for military families that pushes parents to affirm their child’s self-selected gender identity. The $850,000 grant project, known as…
The Biden-Harris administration awarded a federal grant to facilitate training for military families that pushes parents to affirm their child’s self-selected gender identity.
The $850,000 grant project, known as Centerstone’s LGBTQI+ Family Support Program (Family+), intends to provide “affirming interventions for 230 youth and their families” and train 100 staff in delivering these “evidence-based interventions,” according to the grant description.
“Services will be delivered at Centerstone’s Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic in Fayetteville, North Carolina, home to Fort Liberty Army Base (formerly Ft. Bragg), the largest US Army installation, and Pope Air Force Base,” the grant description states. “Family+ will place a key emphasis on serving focus population youth from among the area’s estimated 37,800 children of active duty military members and 82,475 Veteran households with children.”
The grant is funded through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Centersone’s website offers multiple mental health resources developed using grant funding. One suggests LGBTQ-identifying individuals “set goals” to decrease the impact of “minority stress,” such as attending an “LGBTQIA+ support group” for five weeks or reading “an affirming book for 20 minutes daily for seven days.”
“The Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at Centerstone is here to serve all members of the military community for any mental health needs they present with,” Centerstone told the DCNF.