Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth

Last year, Francisco Monzon and his colleagues at the Uhlich Children’s Advantage Network, or UCAN, were approached by a woman recently returned from Minneapolis, where she had witnessed that city’s host home programs for its homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth population. Drawing on the help of unpaid volunteers, the programs placed 18- to 24-year-...
Las víctimas vienen de ciudades, suburbios y pequeños pueblos de todo el país, y representan todas las razas, grupos étnicos y grupos socio-económicos. Aun así, ciertos jóvenes tienen más probabilidad de ser convertidos en víctimas:
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Youth-serving professionals and researchers who work with runaway and homeless youth agree that knowing something about the culture and reality of young people is helpful to getting youth off the streets, into programs that can help them and into stable housing. But runaway and homeless youth are a notoriously difficult population to track, and research to date has painted an...
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Penny Lane, a social services organization in North Hills, CA, has served lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth since its inception in the late 1960s, but until recently, the charity took an informal approach to that work. When their like-minded neighbors at Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services, known as GLASS, disbanded in 2008, Penny Lane’s leaders wanted to step...
When young people call the Trevor Project’s toll-free national crisis and suicide-prevention line for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth, they may never have confided their sexuality or gender identity to anyone. They may not have fully accepted it themselves.
The Homeless Youth Resource Center, a Family and Youth Services Bureau grantee in Salt Lake City operated by Volunteers of America Utah, is always looking for ways to serve youth better. So when a 2005 survey of young people at the center revealed that a large fraction of regular visitors identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning, staff members had a moment of self-...
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