The LGBTQ TA Center provides no-cost technical assistance and training to seven grantees funded through the California Reducing Disparities Project (CRDP) to implement and evaluate community-based programs that support mental health among California’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning populations. Over the course of six years (2016-2022), TA Center staff and consultants will work intensively with the grantees to promote strategic planning, effective implementation, rigorous evaluation, successful scaling-up, and ongoing sustainability.
Topics include: Supreme Court hearings on sexual orientation and gender identity protections; resources to promote LGBTQ inclusion in the workplace; National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) resources; and upcoming conferences and distance learning opportunities
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National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) resources, research studies on LGBTQ+ school and college mental health, a video by IPP Gender Spectrum on “Navigating Barbershops & Salons,” a report on ICE mistreatment of LGBTQ and HIV-positive migrants, a resource on child welfare supports for LGBTQ youth, and upcoming conferences.
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The Trevor Project, the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ youth, created this report based on over 34,000 youth respondents, which is the largest survey of LGBTQ youth mental health ever conducted. The Trevor Project’s overall goal is to produce and use innovative research that brings new knowledge and clinical implications to the field of suicidology and LGBTQ mental health. For example, data from this survey revealed that 76% of youth respondents indicated that they would be somewhat to extremely likely to reach out via text or chat in a crisis, and 39% of LGBTQ respondents seriously considered attempting suicide in the past twelve months.
The Center for Combating Human Trafficking and Youth Collaboratory offers five tips for authentically engaging vulnerable young people. They underscore research that assures us social connections and relationships are a strong protective factor from abuse, exploitation, and human trafficking (among other things), and disconnection is a risk factor.
For those who identify as LGBTQ and as Latinx Americans, the coming out process can be even more complex to navigate. Often, it requires a unique approach that can cut across multiple languages, cultures, nationalities, religious identities, and family generations. HRC Foundation's Coming Out: Living Authentically as LGBTQ Latinx Americans resource is designed to aid LGBTQ Latinx Americans in navigating the intersectional challenges when coming out.
In 2017, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation partnered with researchers at the University of Connecticut to conduct a groundbreaking survey of over 12,000 LGBTQ youth and capture their experiences in their families, schools, social circles, and communities. The survey findings unveil the challenges and needs for LGBTQ Latinx youth, including the importance of access to mental health service providers that are culturally competent and LGBTQ-affirming, and the importance of safe and non-discriminatory school environments.
Hair can be a powerful tool for gender expression that affirms our gender identity. Gender Spectrum presents a video series, "Navigating Barbershops and Salons," providing basic tools to help people navigate barbershops.
LGBTQ identities are now embraced at many colleges across the U.S. Advocates say that one important starting point for prospective students is to examine a college's nondiscrimination policies and whether it includes sexual orientation and gender identity. The article also encourages students to pay attention to religious exemptions to Title IX that are granted to some schools, which is a civil rights law that prevents discrimination on the basis of sex. Other areas for prospective students to investigate include bathroom and housing policies, LGBTQ representation in the curriculum, and LGBTQ campus resources.
This report is a collection of papers focused on understanding what we know and what we need to better understand about the lives and outcomes of system-involved youth who are both LGBTQ and racial/ethnic minorities.
The Movement Advancement Project released a summary of research on LGBTQ+ people living with disabilities. This resource describes the unique challenges faced by the estimated 3 million to 5 million LGBTQ+ Americans living with disabilities. It outlines recommendations for advancing equality and opportunities to help remove these challenges.
The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) marks a substantial movement toward child welfare reform by beginning to bring child welfare financing into alignment with what research tells us is best for children and families: keeping children in their homes whenever safe and possible, and —when children have to be placed in foster care — ensuring they are in the most family-like, least restrictive setting that will meet their needs. Through FFPSA, there's a significant opportunity for child welfare systems to address existing disparities for LGBTQ+ children, youth, and families.