Empowering Male Clients with Gender and Culturally Responsive Practice

Jon Gilgoff

Training Description

In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how to work more effectively with systems-involved male clients through a greater understanding of gender socialization, culturally responsive practices, and the impact of environmental stressors and systemic oppression.  Come learn how to draw out youth emotions, ideas, voice, and motivation so that we may achieve targeted client outcomes and collectively build more peaceful, just, and equitable communities.                

Learning Objectives

• To explore the need for gender and culturally responsive services with systems- involved male youth clients, identifying 3-5 important reasons why such services are integral to effective and equitable practice  

• To identify 3-5 impacts of gender socialization, environmental stressors and systemic oppression on systems-involved male clients