The People in Your Neighborhood: Working with Sexual and Gender Minority Youth

This session will focus on building awareness of the context and experiences of sexual and gender minority victims of sexual violence, and offer training participants strategies for providing forensic interviews, services and advocacy in a meaningful and culturally sensitive manner. In this session, we will examine the factors that place sexual and gender minority youth at greater risk for maltreatment and barriers these youth may face following victimization and trauma. This session will offer training participants an opportunity to examine current practices and learn practical skills to improve responses and interview techniques for sexual and gender minority survivors of violence.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify what puts sexual minority victims at greater risk for victimization
• Discuss reasons why sexual minority youth may fail to disclose their abuse
• Assess skills to improve response to sexual minority youth

This training consists of a 90-min presentation and 30-min Q&A to allow interaction between the presenter and participants in real time. 

Presenter: Amy Russell, MSEd, JD, NCC

Audience Level: Beginning: Appropriate for all attendees as an introduction to a topic

Areas of Emphasis: Sexual minority youth, gender minority, maltreatment, sexual violence

Earn 2.0 Continuing Education Credit Hours!

NPEIV Certificate Series

This Webinar is part of the NPEIV Certificate Program and earns 2.0 credit hours towards the 8.0 hrs requirement. For more information, visit our website.

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NPEIV offers student and military discounts upon request and proof of eligibility. To submit proof of eligibility and request a discount code, please contact nanetteb@ivatcenters.org

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Registrations cancelled within 5 days of initial sign-up and no more than 48 hours pior to the close of registration will receive a full refund less a 3% credit card transaction fee. Registrations cancelled after this period will not receive a refund but may have the option to transfer registration fee to another NPEIV Webinar. Registration for this event closes on 6/13/21. For more information about this policy, please contact nanetteb@ivatcenters.org

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