One of the core concerns when you're working with gender diverse youth is that they're experiencing a lot of isolation, discrimination, and bias, and they need to be able to communicate their needs. At the same time, caregivers need to be able to learn what the youth need and be able to communicate with the youth. Both of those are critical in order for the youth to receive the care that they need, the gender affirming care they need. And so one thing that this group is designed to do is to work with the youth to be able to communicate their needs and build their assertiveness so that they can address some of those concerns. The same time, it's helping caregivers learn about gender and how to discuss that gender with the youth. And the third component of this group will be to facilitate communication between the caregivers and the youth so that they can discuss their needs and help meet the needs of the youth. This will help improve the youths functioning as well as the supports for the caregivers as they are able to meet with other caregivers and have a community of their own. Incorporating gender nexus Go and P Flag Fishers further advances our goals. As those community agencies and those members of the community have the expertise and personal experiences that are necessary to meet the community needs. While this group is being developed locally, we intend in the future to build upon the findings of this research and expand access to the curriculum to service providers in other areas who may not have access to some of the services and the community agencies that we have here. This project is solving a problem in the community of helping gender diverse youth and their families learn more about each other and learn more about each other's needs. Because we're finding that as children and young adults and youth are coming out as gender diverse, it creates a very seismic shift in families sometimes. And so being able to walk alongside families as we're processing that shift with them and the change in dynamics will not only help solve a problem, but it will also help the community think how identity is lived and experienced. I got involved in this project because Richard and I are both passionate about supporting families of gender diversity. I was excited to help them in this one. When our child told us they were trans ten years ago, we were very few resources for parents. We finally got lots of information, connection and resources from a therapy group for parents of trans kids. Up to that point, we felt very isolated and adrift. We really appreciate the guidance from social workers in the camaraderie with the other parents. This project combines those benefits with the added bonus of simultaneous youth programming as well. The bans grant allows us to work with the inevitable struggles that our kids face in that every child needs to know that there is that there are other kids who share and reflect their experiences. And just creating the space where kids can have that experience with others, just doesn't magically happen. It requires careful thought, consideration, examination. It requires evaluation after the facts so that we can make this experience as full and rich as possible. And in that way, not only are we helping your kids, but we're also helping your parents. And the more that we can support both kids and parents as a whole unit, the better we make our community.