This program provides a foundation of knowledge about gender identity and effective clinical practice to support transgender youth development and well-being. Social workers will learn about the research that identifies the range of gender-affirming care practices that contribute to healthy social and emotional development in trans youth and will gain concrete clinical tools for their own social work practice with trans youth and their families, within the Kansas policy context.

CEU: 2 clinical diagnosis/treatment
 

Research Impact Talk
Wednesday, Nov. 13
12-2 p.m.
 

Objectives for the CEU session:

1. Participants will gain a foundational understanding of gender identity and common experiences of trans youth within the current policy context in Kansas.

2. Participants will be able to identify the range of gender-affirming care practices found through research as contributing to healthy social and emotional development in trans youth.

3. Participants will be able to apply concrete clinical tools for gender-affirming care in their own social work practice.