Growing into Resilience: Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in CanadaDespite 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. |
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Contents
Steeling Life in the Face of Adversity | 3 |
From At Risk to At Promise | 137 |
An Emergent Research Typology of a Dynamic Process from the 1980s to the Present | 289 |
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Growing into Resilience: Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Canada Andre P. Grace Limited preview - 2015 |
Growing Into Resilience: Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Canada André P. Grace,Kristopher Wells No preview available - 2015 |