Growing into Resilience : : Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Canada / / Andre P. Grace.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Grace, Andre P.,
• MitwirkendeR: Wells, Kristopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 1 b&w table

Despite recent progress in civil rights for sexual and gender minorities (SGM), ensuring SGM youth experience fairness, justice, inclusion, safety, and security in their schools and communities remains an ongoing challenge. In Growing into Resilience, André P. Grace and Kristopher Wells – co-founders of Camp fYrefly, a summer leadership camp for SGM youth – investigate how teachers, healthcare workers, and other professionals can help SGM youth build the human and material assets that will empower them to be happy, healthy, and resilient.Grace and Wells investigate the comprehensive (physical, mental, and sexual) health of SGM youth, emphasizing the role of caring professionals in an approach that that recognizes and accommodates SGM youth. Throughout, the authors draw upon the personal narratives of SGM youth, emphasizing how research, policy, and practice must act together for them to be able to thrive and fulfill their promise.Both a resource for those professionally engaged in work with sexual and gender minorities and a comprehensive text for use in courses on working with vulnerable youth populations, Growing into Resilience is a timely and transdisciplinary book.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Remembering the Vriend Decision -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Steeling Life in the Face of Adversity -- Introduction -- InterText 1. Mara: Learning to Own Gay -- InterText 2. Vincent: I’m Passing -- 1 Making It Better Now for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth -- InterText 3. Sean: I’m a Man, Yes I Am -- 2 Gender Beautiful: Living in the Fullness of One’s Affirmed Gender Identity and True Gender Self -- InterText 4. Larissa: My Heritage Is a Big Thing -- 3 Camp fYrefly: fostering, Youth, resilience, energy, fun, leadership, yeah! -- InterText 5. Mark: Being the Boy I Am -- InterText 6. Paul: Bringing People Out of Silence -- 4 Policies to Protect Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Schooling and Health Care -- Part 2: From At Risk to At Promise -- InterText 7. John: Learning to Own Gay -- 5 The Marc Hall Prom Predicament: Queer Individual Rights v. Institutional Church Rights in Canadian Public Education -- InterText 8. Sam: It’s Like Piranhas, Man -- 6 Gay and Bisexual Male Youth as Educator-Activists and Cultural Workers: The Queer Critical Praxis of Three Canadian High School Students -- InterText 9. Jon: Born to Be, Deserving to Be Happy in My Own Skin -- 7 The Comprehensive Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth -- InterText 10. David: Stealth, but Living Trans Full-time -- 8 Gay-Straight Alliances and the Quest for Recognition and Accommodation in Canadian Schools -- Appendix. Growing into Resilience: An Emergent Research Typology of a Dynamic Process from the 1980s to the Present -- References -- Index