Date and Time:
April 13, 2019, 9:30 a.m. to 12 Noon

Canyon View Community Center
471 Maidu Drive
Auburn, CA 95603

Title:
How to Be Supportive of Clients Who Are Transgender

Description:
Participants will learn how to make their practice more supportive to clients who are transgender, questioning their gender, non-binary, or intersexed. This will be an interactive workshop where participants can ask questions about transgender issues while learning about the trans* culture, from trans* friendly language and forms to understanding informed consent.

Note: trans* is a way to designate all types of trans, such as transwoman, transman, transgender, transsexual, transfeminine, etc.

Educational Goals:
This workshop will benefit LMFT, LPCC, LEP and LCSW licensees and pre-licensees by learning how to better support any clients who are questioning their gender.

Learning Objectives:
After the workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Design forms that are supportive to clients who are transgender,
2. Identify clients who have Gender Dysphoria and those clients who are gender fluid/non binary;
3. Discuss what gender is and what transgender means;
4. Create an atmosphere that allows for open discussion between gender-questioning clients and therapists.

Presenter:
Heather Blessing LMFT has been working with and been an advocate for the LBGTQ community for more than 20 years. In 2006, she met and eventually married her husband, who is transgender. When she became licensed in 2015, working with transgender children became her specialty. She provides trainings and workshops to help others understand what transgender means and how to be supportive.

CEUs:
This presentation will award 2 CEUs or 2 Attendance Hours.

Cost:

Refund Policy:
Early registration closes on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 6 p.m. Refunds may be provided to registrants prior to the close of registration, minus a $5 refund fee. No refunds after the close of registration. No partial credit for arriving late or leaving early.

Award of Course Completion Certificates:
Attendees will receive a Certificate for 2 CEUs or a Certificate for 2 hours of Attendance at the end of the course and upon completion of course evaluation.

Sierra Foothills of CAMFT is approved by California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, and LEP as well as non-licensed AMFT, ASW, APCC, graduate students and trainees. SFC CAMFT Provider # is 97723.

This course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. This course also meets the qualifications for 2 hours of attendance credit for Associate Marriage and Family Therapists (AMFT), Associate Social Workers (ASW), Associate Professional Clinical Counselors (APCC), trainees and graduate students as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Instructions for requesting accommodations for disability and for addressing grievances:
Please contact Dianne Murden at diannemurde@yahoo.com or call 530 305 2066. Also, please let her know if there is a problem during the workshop.

DIRECTIONS: (Using your GPS or Mapquest may cause problems)

PLACE:
Canyon View Community Center
471 Maidu Drive
Auburn, CA 95603

Going East on I80 from Roseville, Rocklin, etc., take the Grass Valley Highway exit. Turn right at the light, which is Highway 49 South. Go to Lincoln Way and take a right. Go to next stoplight, which is Auburn-Folsom Road, and take a left. Continue through several stoplights (approximately 1.5 miles). ****See below for more directions

Going West on I 80 from Colfax, etc., take the Elm Avenue exit. Get into the left turn lane immediately and turn onto Elm Avenue. Continue on Elm Avenue and turn left onto Grass Valley Highway. Continue on Grass Valley Highway to Lincoln Way and take a right. Go to next stoplight, which is Auburn-Folsom Road and take a left. Continue through several stoplights (approximately 1.5 miles). ****See below for more directions.

Going South on Highway 49 from Nevada City, Grass Valley, etc., take a right at Lincoln Way. Go to next stoplight, which is Auburn-Folsom Road, and take a left. Continue through several stoplights (approximately 1.5 miles). ****See below for more directions.

****Turn left onto Maidu Drive. Continue on Maidu Drive through several stop signs for about 1.2 miles, at which point Maidu Drive curves sharply to the left. (If you reach a green gate, you've gone too far.) Continue on Maidu Drive for about 0.2 miles. Canyon View Community Center is on the right and is a light yellow/tannish building with green trim. There will be the Sierra Foothills CAMFT poster on the door.

All members are welcome to join the Board of Directors meeting. The next meeting is at the training site the day of the workshop from 8 to 9 a.m. Please let us know if you plan to attend by emailing Dianne Murden at diannemurde@yahoo.com.