{"product_id":"9781442625655","title":"Growing into Resilience: Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Canada","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite 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 \u003cem\u003eGrowing into Resilience\u003c\/em\u003e, André P. Grace and Kristopher Wells – co-founders of Camp fYrefly, a summer leadership camp for SGM youth – investigate how teachers, healthcare workers, and other professionals can help SGM youth build the human and material assets that will empower them to be happy, healthy, and resilient.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrace and Wells investigate the comprehensive (physical, mental, and sexual) health of SGM youth, emphasizing the role of caring professionals in an approach that 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 them to be able to thrive and fulfill their promise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth 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, \u003cem\u003eGrowing into Resilience \u003c\/em\u003eis a timely and transdisciplinary book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140262936816,"sku":"9781442625655","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442625655_p0.jpg?v=1763810311","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442625655","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}