Community Resilience Practice for Trans Thriving

Transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming children and adults face intense stigma, marginalization and violence from every direction: from strangers, family members, service providers, and the highest levels of government. Yet, many of us manage to survive and thrive anyway. How? And how can we all - trans people, supportive community members, mental health providers and other professional helpers - better support trans thriving?

Researchers are beginning to examine factors that contribute to trans thriving, while of course trans communities have been developing and sharing resilien...Read morece practices forever. This session draws on both bodies of knowledge – the latest research on trans mental health and wellness, as well as the informally-shared accumulated wisdom of trans communities.

Participants will learn about the individual-, group-, and community-level factors that impact trans thriving, and the resilience practices at each of those levels that can support it. We’ll explore our particular roles as allies, advocates and accomplices to/with/in trans communities, and develop individualized action plans to build on known resilience strategies to better support trans friends, clients and community members. Less...

Learning Objectives

Identify individual and community factors that contribute to resilience for transgender adults and youth.
Explore participants’ particular roles as allies to trans clients and to the broader trans community (including how this is different depending on each participant's gender and other salient identities)
Describe individual and community-level interventions to support trans resilience and thriving.

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Live Interactive Webinar

11:00 AM EDT - 01:00 PM EDT

EARN 2 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

David Shlasko, M.Ed.

Director, Think Again Training & Consulting

Davey Shlasko (all pronouns) is the founder and director of Think Again Training & Consulting. For over two decades, Davey has cultivated a practice of facilitating adult learning that supports organizational and systemic change for social justice. Davey’s work has supported schools, universities, healthcare and human service providers, advocacy organizations, and businesses to integrate principles and practices of social justice into their planning and everyday action. Davey has an M.Ed. in Social Justice Education from UMass-Amherst, and teaches as an Adjunct Associate Professor in social theory and trans studies at Smith College School for Social Work.

Agenda

11:00-11:10 (10 minutes) Agenda and Housekeeping

11:10 - 11:25 (15 minutes) Opening Activity

11:25 - 11:45 (20 minutes) Gender concept speed Review

11:45 - 11:55 (10 minutes) Resilience Factors

11:55 - 12:05 (10 minutes) Trans Community Strengths

12:05 - 12:10 (5 minutes) Individual Resilience Meets Community Strengths

12:10 - 12:40 (30 minutes) Scenarios practice

12:40 - 12:50 (10 min) Q&A

12:50-1:00 (10 min) Closing / Action Commitments

CE Information - Earn 2 CE Credit Hours

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