Topic(s): 
Youth
Webinar event date: 
Nov 21, 2018 1:00 pm EST
Webinar series: 
Working with trans youth and their families: evidence based practice for intervention and social change
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Webinar Presenters: 

Annie Pullen Sansfaçon, T.S., Ph.D.

 

Annie Pullen Sansfaçon (PhD Ethics, Social work, DeMontfort University,

UK) is a Full Professor of Social Work at the University of Montreal. Her work focuses on the development of anti-oppressive theories, approaches and methodologies to promote ethical and emancipatory practice in social work. In her research, she applies those methodologies and perspectives to projects that aim at better understand the experiences of oppression and resistance of trans children, youth and their families. She is one of the co-founder of Gender Creative Kids Canada, a Montreal base organization that work with trans children and their families, and is the co-editor of the book Supporting transgender and Gender Creative Youth: Schools, Families and Community in Action (Peter Lang, 2014; 2018).

 

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This is the first session in a three part series. We encourage you to sign up for all three sessions. 

Trans youth are part of a increasingly visible group in society but their experience is still little misundersood and their needs remains largely unmet.
 

This three-part webinar series aims at exploring the experience of trans youth and their families, as well a how social work can respond to some of their needs. This session, Part 1, will explore some of the basic concepts and latest research evidence in order to better understand trans youth's experience. 

 

Part 2 will discuss of the experiences of families who care for trans children and youth.  Finally, part 3 will discuss how social work, by its values and missions, can intervene and facilitate social change to improve the lives of trans children, youth and families.