Ellen Kahn is the Senior Director of Programs and Partnerships at the Human Rights Campaign. In her role, Ellen provides national leadership and expertise in public education and advocacy efforts on behalf of LGBTQ youth and families. Ellen is nationally recognized as an expert on LGBTQ family life and LGBTQ youth. She's also a proud mom of two teenage daughters.
In this interview, Ellen explains how parents can create a home environment that affirms and accepts LGBTQ children, and how to advocate for LGBTQ kids in the larger world– whether they're our own children or not. As Ellen explains: "It's all of us together, chiseling away at the reason parents can be fearful when they find out their child is LGBTQ. Let's just not raise bullies anymore."
Here are a few additional resources mentioned in this episode:
Human Rights Campaign's welcomingschools.org
"Serendipitydodah- Home of the Mama Bears" Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Serendipitydodah
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"What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood" regularly tops the Parenting and Kids and Family charts on Apple Podcasts, with over 150 episodes and two million lifetime downloads. In each episode Margaret and Amy, each moms of three, discuss a parenting topic from their usually-completely opposite perspectives.
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