Autism, Gender, And Sexuality: Understanding The Connection – Foundational Family Services

This 2½-hour workshop introduces parents and caregivers to how a diagnosis of Autism may influence or impact their child or youth’s journey with gender and sexual identity. Participants will leave with increased knowledge of the barriers their child or youth may face when exploring intersecting identities and supportive strategies that help to empower and validate their autistic 2SLGBTQ+ youth.

As a result of participating in this workshop, participants will be able to:

• describe how a diagnosis of Autism may influence or impact one’s journey with gender and sexual identity
• identify support strategies for autistic 2SLGBTQ+ youth

Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Cost: No cost to participate

Autism, Gender, and Sexuality: Understanding the Connection will be delivered virtually via Zoom. The Zoom link will be e-mailed by Kerry’s Place staff two business days prior to the day of the scheduled event. If you do not see the e-mail in your inbox, please check your junk mail folder or spam folder. If you still haven’t received an e-mail with the Zoom Link, please contact intake@kerrysplace.org explaining the problem. We will do our best to answer your request as soon as possible. To ensure you do not miss communication from Kerry’s Place, please add @kerrysplace.org to your safe sender list.