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The Gender Identity Project (GIP) works to inform and educate professional counselors and other service providers, the lesbian, gay, and bisexual communities, the civil bureaucracy and the general public on gender identity issues and the needs of the transgender communities. This is accomplished through on and offsite presentations, educational support group sessions, workshops and sensitivity/diversity training’s throughout the NY metropolitan area.

What is Trans-Care?

Trans-Care is the principal training offered by the GIP and seeks to offer service providers working in health and mental health, education, housing, employment, corrections, substance abuse, legal services, youth services and entitlements, as well as community-based organizations and private practice, insight about people of transgender experience, and the transgender communities so they may be more effective in serving these populations. This workshop emphasizes the history, needs and voices of trans-people and the communities they inhabit and is typically configured in two or more, 1 ½ to 2-hour segments. In addition, specialized 1 hour modules focusing on specific practice areas are continually being added.

Trans-Care: Basics

Trans-Care: Basics stresses cultural competency and sensitivity concerns including trans-vocabulary, trans-history, engagement concerns, ethnic/cultural/class differences within the trans-communities, trans-space, legislative developments and resources. In addition to didactic material, group exercises and the viewing of a short videotape help to develop the participant’s awareness of the breadth of identities within the trans-communities.

Trans-Care: Practice

Trans-Care: Practice focuses on trans-practice and clinical concerns using a model that emphasizes the needs of a collection of communities, articulating identity and community development over pathology and diagnosis, shifting the practice emphasis to the management of stigma associated with trans-identities, the reduction of barriers, the establishment of sufficient and freely accessed services and the articulation of community. Areas covered include: intake and assessment, gender identity development and transition support, trans-medical and health care, mental health care with focus on trauma-related practice and resources. In addition to didactic material, role-playing vignettes and exercises help to develop the participant’s skills.

Trans-Care: Hidden Populations

Trans-Care: Hidden Populations incorporates portions of the Basics and Practice workshops and expands this to offer population-specific material about portions of the trans-communities that are not yet socially or culturally visible, including trans-men (FTM), trans-youth, trans-elders and partners of trans-identified people (trans-partners), as well as outreach and intervention strategies for those populations.

Trans-Care: Medical

Trans-Care: Medical incorporates portions of the Practice workshop and expands this to offer a model for consent-based, rather than a diagnosis or pathology-based, health care services for the trans-communities. Areas covered include: engagement concerns, identity, the reduction of barriers, the establishment of sufficient and freely accessed services, gender-confirming hormonal and surgical interventions, and HIV/AIDs.

Trans-Care: Gender-Confirming Surgery/Trans-Care: Documentation Changes

Trans-Care: Gender-Confirming Surgery and Trans-Care: Documentation Changes explore and offer insight into the role service providers play as trans-people seek gender-confirming surgical procedures and documentation that confirms, rather that conflicts with, their identity.

Trans-Care: Human Rights Implementation

Trans-Care: Human Rights Implementation explores and offers insight into the implementation of New York City’s recent human rights legislation adding protections for transgender and gender-different people.

 

contact us For more information, or to schedule a training, contact the Gender Identity Project at 212-640-7310, or by e-mail at gip@gaycenter.org. Sign up for the GIP newsletter.