A range of workshops that have been proven and evaluated are available to fit your campus needs. Below are detailed descriptions of various trainings. Our experience has shown that most campus visits will incorporate several of these workshop options. Please contact us to discuss your vision for training or for references from colleagues.
Title: Trans U-- An Introduction to Transgender Issues on Campus
A/V Requirements: LCD projector; easel with paper, markers, masking tape. Lavalier microphone if more than 40 participants.
Audience: Any campus staff or leadership, including Campus Life, Student Life, Res Life staff and administrators; other interested campus staff and administrators, including trustees, faculty, department chairs, deans, assistant deans and other campus leadership.
Delivery time: 1.25-3 hours. (Different exercises and modalities are utilized based on time available.)
Description of course:
As the visibility and activism of transgender and gender-variant students has grown, higher education administrators are seeking to increase their understanding of basic issues related to the transgender experience. Institutions are also working to create policy change to provide safety and inclusion to this emerging group. This workshop will help give participants insight and information about issues related to access and safety on campus as well as identify strategies for improving services for all campus community members.
Presentation will include didactic and interactive portions, with lecture and overhead presentation, participant exercises, and discussion.
Presentation Goal: To provide a thorough overview of Transgender issues for college administration and support staff needing to understand how to work with and serve this population.
Presentation Objectives:
At the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to:
Title: Beyond Transgender 101: Applying Awareness to Our Work with Students
A/V Requirements: LCD projector; easel with paper, markers, masking tape. Lavalier microphone if more than 40 participants.
Audience: Campus Life, Student Life, Res Life staff and administrators; other interested campus staff and administrators, including department chairs, deans, assistant deans and other campus leadership.
Delivery time: 4-6 hours. Can also be broken into several days.
Description: As the visibility and activism of transgender and gender-variant students has grown, institutions are working to create policy change to provide safety and inclusion for this emerging group. This training will provide basic information about transgender issues and then move beyond that basic awareness to identifying specific strategies and resources for improving services in various Student Affairs Division departments.
Training Goal: This training will improve the awareness, comfort and skills among participants, enabling them to better serve all members of the campus community. The extended format allows for intensive small group work and specific departmental planning.
Training Objectives:
At the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to:
Title: Transgender Issues in College Health
A/V Requirements: LCD projector. Lavalier microphone if more than 40 participants.
Audience: Physicians, advanced practice nurses, nurses and support staff in clinical environment. Materials for CME accreditation provided.
Delivery time: 1-2 hours.
Description: As the visibility and activism of transgender and gender-variant students has grown, campus health centers and counseling centers are increasingly seeing patients with gender-related concerns, but providers often feel at a loss for addressing these issues because little information or training exists on the topic.
This session will focus on four essential steps towards providing good care:
1) understanding the range of transgender possibilities and what that means both medically and socially;
2) becoming familiar with referrals and protocols for care;
3) differentiating transgender care from work with G/L/B populations; and
4) examining institutional-related barriers and solutions to addressing those barriers.
The workshop is interactive and skills-oriented, providing participants with information and strategies to use in their current work.
Learning Objectives/Outcomes
At the end of the presentation, providers in attendance will:
1) Understand basic definitions and range of transgender expressions, including differences in desire for and access to surgical or hormonal interventions.
2) Become familiar with protocols for care and best practices for working with transgender patients.
3) Distinguish between biological sex, gender identity and sexual orientation and ways in which care for transgender populations specifically differs from care for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual communities.
4) Identify 2-3 barriers within their institutions and solutions to those barriers, including using principles of cultural competence to provide access to care for transgender patients
Title: Demystifying the Transgender Experience: Building Competency for Mental Health Providers
A/V Requirements: LCD projector; easel with paper, markers. Lavalier microphone if more than 40 participants.
Audience: Counselors, therapists, social workers, health promotions staff and others involved in counseling center/Wellness center operations. Support staff encouraged to attend. Materials for CEU accreditation provided.
Delivery time: 1.5-3 hours.
Description: With the increased visibility of transgender and gender-variant students on campus, many counseling centers are seeing students with gender-related concerns but are not necessarily familiar with best practices for helping students explore these issues. This workshop provides practical tools, strategies, and resources for providers and administrators. A nationally recognized expert on transgender health issues presents this interactive session, bridging issues of campus policies and individual provider practice.
Learning Objectives:
1. Explain basic terminology, language and concepts of gender variant experiences including gender transition process and role of mental health provider.
2. Examine distinctions between sexual orientation and gender identity/expression.
3. Identify current therapeutic standards of care and approaches to supporting transgender clients and members of client support system.
4. Incorporate basic knowledge of transgender issues, concepts, and concerns into their current professional work, including resources for supervision and clinical literature.
A/V Requirements: LCD projector; easel with paper, markers. Lavalier microphone if more than 40 participants.
Audience: Campus Peer educators, sexuality educators, health educators and supervising staff who provide campus education on diversity, wellness and sexuality issues.
Delivery time: 2-4 hours.
Description: Transgender issues have become a hot topic on campuses, with the increased visibility of gender non-conforming students and the momentum of an international Transgender Liberation Movement. Campus activists and peer educators are hungry for opportunities to discuss issues of gender, and to understand how including transgender issues builds on and contributes to other health and social justice issues on campus.
This highly interactive session is designed for peer educators and student leaders who look to be equipped with an understanding of language, concepts and issues; specific campus needs and how to address them; what it means to be an "ally," and resources/exercises to educate the campus on transgender issues. We will include discussion on how gender liberation issues connect with other social justice and wellness concerns that we are already familiar with. Following a general overview of transgender issues and concepts, the workshop will be even more interactive, modeling several exercises that can be used by participants to help explore gender awareness issues on their campuses.
Presentation Goal: To provide a thorough overview of Transgender issues for college health educators, peer educators and supervising staff and provide model interactive excercises/techniques to be incorported into campus education presentations.
Presentation Objectives: At the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to:
Title: Trans U--An Introduction to Transgender Issues on Campus
A/V Requirements: LCD projector; easel with paper, markers, masking tape. Lavalier microphone if more than 40 participants.
Audience: General student audience, including both graduates and undergraduates. Generally presented as a campus educational event rather than as part of course. Classroom version is possible after review with professor.
Delivery time: 1.25-3 hours. (Different exercises and modalities are utilized based on time available.)
Description of program:
Transgender issues have become a hot topic on campuses, with the increased visibility of gender non-conforming students and the momentum of an international Transgender Liberation Movement. Students are hungry for opportunities to discuss issues of gender, and to understand how including transgender issues builds on and contributes to other social justice issues on campus.
This workshop is both informational and interactive, providing a base level of information to begin an exciting conversation about the many ways people can challenge gender roles. We will also identify barriers faced by transgender and gender non-conforming campus community members, from housing and bathroom access, to health care, course content and career planning. Participants will leave with knowledge of how to be an ally to trans people and how to continue to build support/awareness around these issues.
Presentation Objectives:
At the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to:
Crucial to the success of professional training with staff is to have an opportunity to hear student voices regarding campus experiences and climate. I try to meet with LGBT activists or other campus community members to serve as a sounding board and to gather information that informs the trainings and organizational assessment that is part of a campus visit. It is preferable that this meeting take place in a space with some privacy and that individuals are invited ahead of time.
Depending on the scope of campus work, findings from this meeting can be summarized in written form—without identifying individuals—or used more informally throughout the training visit.