Welcome

The Project COPES program in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychology at the University of Miami is a clinical research program dedicated to learning about parental reactions and child and family well-being in families with a LGB youth.

Families with a LGB youth are a special group that face unique challenges in our society. The impressive ways families deal with these challenges are important to understand. Project COPES seeks to give a voice to these families and hear from youth and their parents about how they negotiate family relationships and personal growth and development when a teen or young adult comes out to the family.