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School Support Guide for LGBTQ+ Families

There are some things that are unique to Rainbow Families.

The School Support Guide aims to equip LGBTQ+ parents, carers and schools with information and insights to help address both small day-to-day challenges and some of the major challenges and concerns.

We also find the guide is extremely helpful for early learning educators, teachers, counsellors and others in the school setting who want to understand how to best support Rainbow Families within their school community.

"The first thing is about his needs, what kind of kid he seems to be and therefore what kind of learning environment we want for him. Then I guess a question about their attitude: Do they have other same-sex families and if not, how would they handle that? Pia"

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