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## Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Canada 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, health-care 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, emotional, social, spiritual, and sexual) health of SGM youth, emphasizing the role of caring professionals in an approach 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 SGM youth to be able to thrive and be at 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, Growin

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Author

Andre P. Grace; Kristopher Wells

Publisher

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442637573

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Psychology, Gender Studies