Event Information
Moving Toward Gender Competency: Using the Gender Affirmative Lifespan Approach (GALA) to guide mental health care for transgender and gender diverse children, adolescents, and adults
Presented by Canvas Health and The Wilder Foundation
Friday, Dec. 13, 2024 | 8 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.
In-Person at Amherst Wilder Foundation in St. Paul, and Virtually
CEUs available!
Conference Presenter:
Dr. Dianne Berg is an associate professor and licensed psychologist at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (ISGH) at the University of Minnesota. She has been working clinically with transgender and gender diverse children, adolescents, and adults for over 20 years. She is a co-founder and current staff member of the National Center for Gender Health (NCGH), a philanthropic initiative of ISGH whose mission is to 1) promote scholarship that centers the lived experience of trans and gender diverse people; 2) challenge cisnormativity in healthcare; and 3) promote positive sexuality. Dr. Berg is an author of the Gender Affirmative Lifespan Approach, the theoretical framework guiding the NCGH’s scholarship as well a co-author of the Child Chapter in the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care Version 8.
Conference Objectives:
During Moving Toward Gender Competency, participants will learn to how to:
- Understand the importance of a developmental lens when working with transgender and gender diverse (TGD) children, adolescents and adults.
- Discern the current scholarship, dilemmas and considerations in clinical mental health practice with transgender and gender diverse (TGD) children, adolescents, and adults.
- Apply the core therapeutic components of the Gender Affirmative Lifespan Approach to clinical work with transgender and gender diverse (TGD) children, adolescents, and adults.
- Recognize the complicated political climate in the United States with regard to anti-trans legislation and its impact on transgender and gender diverse people as well as those who provide gender health care.
Conference Agenda
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Wilder Foundation
The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation is a nonprofit community organization that creates lasting, positive change rooted in people through direct services, research and community building. As a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic since 2017, we offer integrated behavioral, chemical health and social services to children, adults and families. We’d love to have you join our team of dedicated professionals! Please visit our website to apply. Wilder.org; (651) 280-2000
Canvas Health
Celebrating more than 55 years of bringing hope, healing, and recovery to the lives of people we serve, Canvas Health is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic offering more than 35 programs. We’re hiring! Visit our website for more information! CanvasHealth.org; (651) 777-5222
