EP33: Supporting LGBTQ Youth

Ellen Kahn is a social worker and Director of the Children, Youth and Families Program at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). We speak with her about HRC's work to serve youth who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer.

Published June 4, 2019

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Resources

Human Rights Campaign

Children & Youth Resources

Time to Thrive Annual Conference

2018 LGBTQ Youth Report - HRC / University of Connecticut

All Children, All Families promotes LGBTQ inclusive policies and affirming practices at child welfare agencies. It formally recognizes those agencies that are leading the field with innovative approaches to inclusion.

HBCU Program
HRC has established relationships with more than 30 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), providing support to LGBTQ and allied students, faculty, and staff in improving LGBTQ inclusion on their campuses.

Data

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six categories of health-related behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults.

Youth Online
Get YRBSS data from high school and middle school surveys conducted during 1991-2017 and Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) data from students aged 13-17 conducted during 2003-2015.

Campus Pride
The Campus Pride HBCU Clearinghouse provides the most up-to-date resource to view each Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) and review a checklist of LGBTQ-inclusive policies, programs and practices.

Continuing Education

• Serving the Needs of the LGBTQ Community Over the Lifespan
• Social Work with Lesbian and Gay Clients
• Coming Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child
• Transgender Emergence: Understanding Diverse Gender Identities and Expressions
• Improving Equity: Working with Rural LGBT Individuals
• Opioids and the LGBTQ Community

NASW Press Publications

• Effects of Conservative Religion on Lesbian and Gay Clients and Practitioners, Practice Implications
• Affirmative Practice: Understanding and Working with LGBT Persons
• Prejudice to Pride: Moving from Homophobia to Acceptance