Iowa Senate File 538- gender transition procedures related to minors strips providers of Medicaid funding from Sept 18 forward and doesn't allow Medicaid to be used by clients for gender affirming treatment. If a counselor has a transgender client, and has used the gender dysphoria code and many others (7 pages of ICD codes) then they will be retroactively stripped of funding. I am so angry for clients and for providers. As a clinician, I feel so mad that states are telling transgender youth in lower SES that they can't be who they truly are, and now they can't even talk to a counselor. I just can't. @socialwork@Email2TootBot#SocialWork#psych#psychology#iowa#lgbtqia#transgender#transgenderrights#counseling#counselor#therapist#therapy
One of the things I've been so impressed by is how #SocialWorkers know such a broad range of resources. Now as a #therapist (through a #counseling program), I'm feeling like my program skips this piece of the puzzle. I'm trying to figure out how to learn it on my own. For example, I recently learned our area has a ton of free legal clinics and money workshops (some with childcare!), which is awesome. How do social workers learn about what types of resources exist?