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HRC Webcast Resources: The First Step is an Open Mind: Best Practices for Working with LGBTQ Youth
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Description: This FREE HRC webcast, which aired on May 27, 2009, provided an overview of the issues that LGBTQ youth face. The presenters discussed the best practice recommendations recently released by NAEH and implementation of these practices at the Ali Forney Center in New York City.
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This webcast featured Richard Hooks-Wayman of the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) and Carl Siciliano of The Ali Forney Center, the nation's largest and most comprehensive organization dedicated to youth who are homeless and Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Transgender, or Questioning (LGBTQ). Richard and Carl provided an overview of the issues that these youth face. They also discussed the best practice recommendations recently released by NAEH and implementation of these practices at the Ali Forney Center.

About the presenters

Carl Siciliano is the founder and Executive Director of the Ali Forney Center, the nation's largest and most comprehensive organization dedicated to homeless LGBT youth. From 1994 through 2001, Mr. Siciliano was the Director of Homeless Youth Services of SafeSpace in New York City.

Richard Hooks Wayman is the Senior Youth Policy Analyst. Formerly the Public Policy Campaign Director for the Minnesota Youth Service Association, Mr. Hooks Wayman authored the Minnesota Runaway and Homeless Youth Act and the Minnesota Youth Advancement Act. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1992.

Please follow the links below to visit the organizations mention during this webcast.

The Ali Forney Center
The National Alliance to End Homelessness
GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network)
The National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth

Additional resources from the webcast can be received by e-mailing generalinquiry@center4si.com.
Type of Resource: HRC Resource
Organization: SAMHSA
Publication Date: 2009
Location: Rockville, MD
Phone: 617-467-6014
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November 09, 2009
4:28 AM
 
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kymberly hirst from glendora
May 27, 2009
3:13 PM
 
This is really great, I am glad to be a part of this and thank you for the information. I am in a School Counseling program and we finished our Safe Zone training recently. It was great to have that training. I want to work with this population so to be a part of this is wonderful. I am very thankful for having this opportunity to get these resources from you. Thank you so very much.
Dawn Carey from Sarasota
May 27, 2009
2:42 PM
 
The attached resources and powerpoint are great resources. Thanks for including them.


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