Understanding Gender Diversity in Children & Youth
This free, online course for parents, caregivers, and service providers is designed for those at the beginning of their learning journey, and introduces the fundamentals of understanding gender diversity and development in children and youth.
Across five self-guided training modules, participants will build foundational vocabulary, learn key concepts, examine relevant societal issues, and explore supportive policy and advocacy efforts.
What You Will Learn:
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Overview of Course & Reflective Practices
How this course can support your goals as a parent, caregiver, and learner -
Vocabulary, Terminology and Supportive Language
How to use appropriate vocabulary to identify the issues surrounding gender diversity, and language for supporting gender diverse youth
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Gender Diversity in History & Contemporary Culture
Understanding gender in the context of human history to help us connect to our children and youth -
What Gender Diversity Policy & Advocacy Look Like
How to recognize and advocate for supportive policies for gender diverse children and youth -
Support Resources & Next Steps
Next steps in using what was learned in this course
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TransActive at Lewis & Clark Graduate School
TransActive provides professional and community education, capacity building, and empowering mentorship to changemakers and advocates who support gender diverse youth.
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About the Instructor
Cari Zall (she/her) is Clinical Faculty in the Secondary MAT Program at Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, and is Director of Lewis & Clark’s Trans Youth Support and Advocacy Certificate Program. Cari brings to her equity education practice over 25 years of legal and education experience. She has been a secondary and post-secondary educator for over 20 years. She has been a curriculum designer and faculty administrator for a national online high school dropout recovery program and has experience in advocacy, providing professional development, and conflict resolution/mediation work.
She is also the proud mom of a trans young adult and bonus mom to four other trans young adults, and her experience supporting them in the various stages of their growth and development informs her work with TransActive at Lewis & Clark.