Second Annual LGBTQ+ Roundtable: Queer Youth Mental Health

NAMI San Francisco presents the Second Annual LGBTQ+ Roundtable: Queer Youth Mental Health!

June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month!

On June 20, mental health professionals in the Bay Area with discuss a range of topics related to LGBTQ+ youth mental health.

This event is for members of the LGBTQ+ community and those committed to supporting LGBTQ+ youth mental health, taking active steps toward identifying community resources for queer youth, and talking constructively about LGBTQ+ mental health.

Hear from mental health experts who specialize in working with LGBTQ+ youth:

Dr. Chase T. M. Anderson, MD, is an Assistant Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco. He graduated from adult psychiatry residency at The Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital and the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at UCSF. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, The New England Journal of Medicine, and other news and journal outlets.

Denisse Mendéz, is the Youth Mental Health Manager at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center. Denisse specializes in working with gender expansive transitional age youth and youth of color. Denisse utilizes her bilingual and bicultural Mexican heritage as foundations for honoring and affirming the human dignity of LGBTQ+ communities that are marginalized by violence, criminalization, and sociocultural oppression.

Francis Gallego, is Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California with more than 20 years of professional work experience (6 in New York, 3 in Hawaii and 11 + in California). Francis has experience working with LGBTQI youth of color on both the east, west coast and Hawaii, as well as working with youth to continue to hold space for LGBTQI trans affirming care. He believes in treating everyone with respect, sensitivity, compassion, and in the importance of cultural humility, diversity, inclusion and dismantling oppression and how it impacts our lives.