“I’ve seen AFFIRM participants learn how to address stressors in their lives and learn how to cope with really real challenges around interpersonal conflict, family difficulties, dealing with issues at school or at work around bullying or victimization. And being able to externalize and understand what are thoughts that are not helpful for living a good quality of life and externalizing negative beliefs about ourselves as queer and trans folks, and being able to build a sense of support and a sense of social engagement that wasn’t there necessarily before coming to AFFIRM.”

– Past facilitator