Trauma-Informed Practice to Support LGTBQIA Students (Professional Development)

Research shows that students in the LGTBQIA community face dramatically higher rates of mental health challenges and often come to our campuses carrying with them the lingering effects of trauma. How can we support wellness and thriving for these students? In this workshop, participants will learn the principles of trauma-informed care and develop a concrete toolkit of strategies to support student thriving that they can integrate into their work with students.

The workshop will be presented by Dr. James Wilson. (they/them)

James Andrew Wilson (they/them) is an English Professor at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, CA. They are proud to co-coordinate Community of Pride, the state’s first community college queer and trans learning community. They created the four-week professional development course “LGBTQ+ Student Success: Identity, Intersectionality, and Advocacy in Education” for @ONE at California Virtual Campus and regularly facilitate the course for California Community College professionals and faculty around the state. At DVC, they have fulfilled the roles of co-coordinator of Pride Alliance and Pedagogy Lead, among others. They have presented at the CCC LGBTQ+ summit three times. A book chapter, “Becoming Somebody: Queering the Classroom and Resisting ‘Neutral’” was recently published in When Challenge Brings Change: How Teacher Breakthroughs Transform the Classroom. Prior to working in higher education, they created performance work in the US, Canada, and Europe and published articles in Performance Studies and Contemporary Theatre Review.