Gender Literacy for Inclusive Youth Work

Your Course Description

Intercultural Engagement
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  • As a youth worker, you may not even realize how many youth in your program are facing challenges around gender identity.
  • When youth don’t feel safe or included in programming, they are more likely to withdraw or express risky behaviors and their relationships and emotional well-being suffer.
  • You can change that by increasing your own gender literacy. Learn how to intentionally create safe and supportive environments that are inclusive to all.

Your Learning Objectives

  • Know the difference between sex and gender and how both are assigned at birth
  • Honor the importance of affirming gender pronouns, names, and identity labels
  • Recognize common trans micro-aggressive phrases and practice inclusive alternatives
  • Learn strategies to improve your language and workplace to be more gender-inclusive

Your Course Details

  • Icon Completion Certificate
  • Icon Youth Worker Track
  • Icon This training will count as 1.5 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.

Your Trainer

Reviewer Photo Logan has been with Lutheran Social Service’s Seeing and Exploring Life’s Future (LSS SELF) Program since 2017 and has been a sexuality educator since 2014. Their teaching philosophy is to provide anti-oppression and social justice focused sexuality education with a particular focus on consent, personal autonomy, and gender inclusion. Prior to joining LSS, Logan worked in counseling training and curriculum development for Family Tree Clinic in St. Paul, MN, taught Introduction to Human Sexuality at Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania, and currently serves as an adjunct professor at Adler Graduate School. Logan has an M.Ed. in Human Sexuality Education from Widener University (Chester, PA), a B.A. in Neuroscience Studies and Psychology from Macalester College (St. Paul). They were a presenter at the National Sex Ed Conference in 2017 and was published in the American Journal of Sexuality Education in 2018.
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Your Skill-Building Objectives

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Inclusion

Fostering belonging in all young people

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Communication

Listening and speaking to deeply connect

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Relationship Building

Building trust through caring relationships

What YIPA members are saying

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This has been the best gender literacy training I have taken. Excellent.

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Logan brought with them such great and useful information. They not only provided great content but did so in a way that made this training exceptionally easy to understand, remember, and put right into practice.

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EVERYONE in youth work needs to take this training. Logan was excellent!