An Affirmative Coping Skills Intervention to Improve the Mental and Sexual Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth (Project Youth AFFIRM): Protocol for an Implementation Study

Shelley L Craig   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Lauren B McInroy   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Andrew David Eaton   ^{1 *} , MSW ;   Gio Iacono   ^{1 *} , MSW ;   Vivian WY Leung   ^{1 *} , MA ;   Ashley Austin   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Cheryl Dobinson   ^{4 *} , MA

¹ Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

² College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

³ Ellen Whiteside McDonnell School of Social Work, Barry University, Miami Shores, FL, United States

⁴ Planned Parenthood Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

*all authors contributed equally