Thursday, August 25, 2016

SCRA WEBINAR (9/26/16): Including Trans and Nonbinary Youth in Community Based Research

[Announcement from SCRA-L]

Including Trans and Nonbinary Youth in Community Based Research
Evan Vipond and Corey Flanders

This webinar will discuss research partnerships between community and academic researchers with transgender and nonbinary youth, including suggestions for best practices. The webinar will discuss these practices through a concrete example, highlighting successes and lessons learned from a recently completed project on trans and nonbinary inclusion in sexual health education. Through this webinar, attendees will be given an example for how researchers and trans youth can work together to build community capacity and resources.

REGISTER BY 9/25/16 AT: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-including-trans-and-nonbinary-youth-in-community-based-research-tickets-25937024338
(Logon information will be emailed to registered attendees the evening before the event. Registration for this live online event is limited.)

Evan Vipond is a trans scholar and Ph.D. student in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. Their work challenges the ways in which trans bodies and identities are regulated through medical and legal policies, as well as neoliberal discourses of individualism, equal rights, and productivity.

Corey Flanders is an Assistant Professor in Psychology and Education at Mount Holyoke College. Her work primarily focuses on addressing health inequities experienced by gender and sexual minority people.

Learning Objectives
1. Participants will learn about health inequities experienced by trans youth.
2. Participants will understand the importance of working with trans youth through community-based research to address these inequities.
3. Participants will hear about one example of a communitybased research project on trans inclusive sexual health education to highlight successes and challenges with engaging in this research.

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Peter Charles Benedict, MA
Outreach and Communications Specialist
Society for Community Research & Action (SCRA)
Community Psychology, Division 27 of the American Psychological Association
Cell: (201) 668-0033
pbenedict@scra27.org

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