Family Acceptance Project® (FAP) Family Support Model

Ethnically and religiously diverse families with a LGBT child

The Family Acceptance Project® (FAP) Family Support Model is a family-oriented model of wellness, prevention, and care for LGBT children and adolescents that is designed to help ethnically and religiously diverse families decrease rejection and increase support to prevent risk and promote their LGBT children’s well-being. Other goals of the program are to help families maintain children who are LGBTQ in their homes, sustain connections, reconnect families, and promote permanency. This family intervention model works across systems to support young people who are LGBTQ in the context of their families, cultures, and faith communities, with a focus on upstream prevention.

Caitlin Ryan, PhD

• Website: https://familyproject.sfsu.edu
• Email: fap@sfsu.edu

Publicly available information indicates there is some training available for this program. See contact info.

Manual Information

There is a manual that describes how to deliver this program.

Training Information

There is training available for this program.

• There are currently no published, peer-reviewed research studies on outcomes with the appropriate target population for the topic area(s) in which Family Acceptance Project® (FAP) Family Support Model has been reviewed.

• Ryan, C. (2010). Engaging families to support lesbian, gay, bsexual, and transgender youth: The Family Acceptance Project. Prevention Researcher, 17(4), 11-13.

• Ryan, C. (2009). Supportive families, healthy children: Helping families with lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender children. https://familyproject.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/FAP_English%20Booklet_pst.pdf

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2014). A practitioner's resource guide: Helping families to support their LGBT children. https://store.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/pep14-lgbtkids.pdf