Gender Literacy for Inclusive Youth Work
Your Course Description
Intercultural Engagement
- 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
- Completion Certificate
- Youth Worker Track
- 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

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Your Skill-Building Objectives
Inclusion
Fostering belonging in all young people
Communication
Listening and speaking to deeply connect
Relationship Building
Building trust through caring relationships
What YIPA members are saying
This has been the best gender literacy training I have taken. Excellent.
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.
EVERYONE in youth work needs to take this training. Logan was excellent!