Tag: youth
Groundbreaking Guide Helps Schools Provide Supportive Environments for Transgender Students
Today, five national organisations introduced Schools In Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K-12 Schools, a first-of-its-kind publication for school administrations, teachers, and parents about how to provide safe and supportive environments for all transgender students, kindergarten through twelfth grade.
beFIERCE! a No-Cost Toolkit for those Serving LGBTQ Foster Youth
Our Space, a program of Sunny Hills Services / Bay Area Youth Center, recently introduced a ground-breaking publication called beFIERCE! a 40 page toolkit for people working with LGBTQ foster youth. beFIERCE! was written by Our Space director, Stephanie Perron, LCSW, in collaboration with LGBTQ foster youth and service providers. The publication was funded by the Walter S. Johnson Foundation.
Walker Campaign Refuses to Say If Children Need to be “Protected” from LGBT Americans
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, released the following statement after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign refused to answer a question from a Washington Post columnist about whether Walker “thought children needed to be protected from gay men.”
HRC Foundation’s Groundbreaking Conference Supporting LGBTQ Youth to be Held in Dallas
Third annual Time To THRIVE conference is expected to attract 800-plus participants from around the nation for sessions on helping LGBTQ youth thrive in the classroom and beyond.
Gay and bisexual teens twice as likely to get pregnant as straight youngsters
Gay and bisexual teens are twice as likely to get pregnant as their straight peers.
HRC: LGBT Youth In Foster Care Face Bias, Discrimination
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, in partnership with FosterClub, an U.S national network for youth in foster care, released an issue brief detailing the hostile treatment experienced by many LGBT and questioning youth in foster care, and the shocking lack of laws and policies protecting them.