When: Wednesday, February 5, 2025 – 12 pm – 1:30 pm PST
Webinar Title: The Impact of a Lack of Gender-Affirming Peripartum Healthcare on Postpartum Depression, Anxiety, and Trauma for Trans and Nonbinary Gestational Parents
Speaker: Anna Pow, MSW
When: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 – 12 pm – 1:30 pm PST
Webinar Title: Combating Transphobic Legislation with Inclusive Sex Ed
Speaker: Vann Jones
When: Tuesday, May 20, 2024 – 12 pm – 1:30 pm PST
Webinar Title: Understanding Options and Overcoming Barriers for LGBTQ+ Family Formation
Speaker: Marea Goodman, LM, CPM
When: Wednesday, July 2, 2025 – 12 pm – 1:30 pm PST
Webinar Title: Affirming & Embodied Birth: Transformative Approaches to De-Feminizing Perinatal Care
and Supporting Trans/Queer Well-Being
Speaker: Ash Dasuqi
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1 FREE CE for mental health professionals sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) will be offered to LIVE webinar attendees only. Live webinar attendees will be eligible for 1 CE for each webinar in the series. The webinars will be recorded and can be accessed for 1 week following the live broadcast. If you are unable to attend live, please still register and the link to the recording will be e-mailed to you following the webinar.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Community Partners FBO Maternal Mental Health NOW is the sponsor of continuing education for this learning module and is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Partners FBO Maternal Mental Health NOW as the sponsor maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
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SPEAKERS
Anna Pow (she/her)
Anna Pow, ACSW, is a therapist living and working in Los Angeles. She has spent the last two years working at the Los Angeles LGBT Center supporting marginalized queer clients in community mental health. As a graduate student she focused her research on the impact of a lack of gender affirming peripartum care on the postpartum mental health of trans and nonbinary gestational parents. Anna previously worked as both a birth and postpartum doula, developing an early passion for the field of birthwork. Through this work Anna realized her pull towards therapeutic work, with a collaborative and strengths-based lens. Anna looks forward to continuing her work in the LGBT+ community, specifically around peripartum mental health.
Vann Jones (he/him)
Vann Jones is a transgender political analyst and activist, community organizer, educator, and caretaker, born and raised in the East Bay Area. Vann got his start in working towards community care at the age of 12 when he became heavily involved in the Castro Valley Unified School District, fighting for LGBTQ+ inclusion and education at every grade level. He is proudly a first-generation college student, graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz with highest honors in Feminist Studies and the History of Art & Visual Culture. During his time in college, he published and presented his own research and educational website on transmasculine reproduction which has become a staple in transgender health care across the UC system, and is now permanently preserved by the GLBT Historical Society. He has worked with a plethora of organizations and activists both in college and after graduation, and is currently applying to UC Berkeley Law where he hopes to study under their Public Interest & Social Justice program. His dream is to someday be the first transgender man in Congress.
Marea Goodman (they/them)
Marea Goodman, LM, CPM (they/them) is a licensed midwife specializing in caring for the LGBTQ+ community from pre-conception into the first year of parenting. They are the founder of the PregnantTogether Community, a vibrant online community supporting queer folks & solo parents from preconception through parenting, and the co-author of the book Baby Making for Everybody—Fertility and Family Building for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents (touted as the What to Expect When You’re Expecting for non-traditional families). What Marea is most proud of is getting to be “mapa” to their amazing kids.
Ash Dasuqi (they/them)
Ash is a Palestinian nonbinary midwife and parent who is oriented toward the fullest sense of liberation we can imagine. They co-parent with their incredible partner and teach a trans/queer childbirth class they created after attending many births, giving birth trans, and immersing their studies within the modern gestational health crisis. Ash is widely recognized for their engaging and accessible teaching style, breaking down complex concepts clearly while always within the wider context of a world suffering from white supremacist settler colonial oppression. Ash’s areas of expertise include gender-affirming healthcare, obstetric violence, trauma-informed care, gender competency, medical and birth trauma prevention, decolonization, and colonization in board gaming. Ash is resolute in uprooting systems of violence and oppression, offering critical and transformative insights as a result.