NTDC Right-Time Training – Sexual Development and Identity

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The NTDC Right-Time Training Sexual Development and Identity video provides an overview of healthy sexual development and how parents who are fostering or adopting can help children navigate through this development. The video highlights an adoptive parent who has helped numerous children transition through adolescence including one of her children’s changing SOGIE over time (SOGIE stands for sexual orientation, gender identity and expression. SOGIE is a term that includes all types of sexual orientation and gender identities and expressions). We learn through the families’ experiences and from key experts how parents can best support and accept children as they come to understand who they are. The video summarizes the importance of parents who are fostering or adopting being supportive and accepting of the youth’s sexual development and formation of a strong, positive SOGIE. Viewers hear about basic services and supports available for youth as they explore, as well as strategies for protecting them as they go out into the world.