Foster Care Training

This training will support participants in exploring the ways that we have collectively been shaped by the gender binary and gender norms. Participants will reflect on their own socialization into the gender binary and how it has shaped them today. Through exploring the work of Alok Vaid-Menon and Sonya Renee Taylor, participants will explore the ways that our bodies and minds have been conditioned into the gender binary as a product of white supremacy. Through videos, discussion, and journal reflection, participants will explore the ways this shows up in our lives and our efforts to serve and/or support youth who are system involved or at high risk of system involvement. Participants will also generate examples of toxic masculinity and gender norms showing up within their efforts to support system-involved youth and families, and practice strategies of interrupting it.