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LGBT Issues
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Resources
Essential Skills for Working with LGBTQ Youth in Out of Home Care (Video)
This training video, developed by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, promotes understanding, offers concrete guidance to improve well-being and permanency for LGBTQ youth in out of home care, and reviews standards, expectations, and policies that promote a safe, respectful environment for LGBTQ youth in out of home placement. Dr. Gary Mallon, Executive Director, National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections, provides expert technical assistance on perspectives of youth and adults on LGBTQ issues, and provides practical guidance and skills for staff working with this population.
LGBT Foster and Adoptive Parenting Information Packet
This new National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections information packet, authored by Teija Sudol, provides information on Foster and Adoptive Parenting by LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) individuals and families. It includes a summary of issues, and reviews facts and statistics, policy and legislation, and best practices and promising approaches to work with LGBT foster and adoptive parents. It also includes a listing of online resources. (October 2010)
HHS Secretary Supports the “It Gets Better Project” in Support of LGBT Youth
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this week released a video message from Secretary Kathleen Sebelius telling lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth suffering from bullying and intolerance that they are not alone, and that it will get better. The Secretary’s message is in response to the recent news of young people taking their own lives after being victims of bullying because they were gay or believed to be gay. We encourage you to view the Secretary's message (and share it with others)
Find Youth Info: Bullying Prevention and Response
Additional resources for adults and children about bullying and how to stop it.
Human Rights Campaign
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation Family Project serves as a comprehensive resource for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families. The project provides information on a wide range of issues including adoption, civil unions, custody and visitation, donor insemination, family law, marriage, parenting, schools, senior health and housing, state laws and legislation, straight spouses and transgender issues. In addition to maintaining inclusive and up to date resources for LGBT families in the U.S., the project provides guidance to those that work closely with these families in various fields such as adoption agencies, social workers, and healthcare institutions.
All Children- All Families
All Children - All Families helps to find permanent families for children by promoting policies that welcome LGBT foster and adoptive parents. The program works to help enhance LGBT competence among child welfare professionals, and increase opportunities for LGBT people to become foster or adoptive parents to waiting children. The All Children - All Families Promising Practices Guide, training videos and agency assessment tool raise awareness of LGBT issues among child welfare professionals across the country. The project will culminate in a searchable database that will be accessed through the Family Project’s website, making it easier to find LGBT friendly adoption agencies.
Welcoming Schools
The cornerstone of this initiative is the Welcoming Schools Guide, a comprehensive guide for creating elementary school environments that support and affirm the children of LGBT families. The Guide will provide administrators, educators and parents/guardians with a full range of materials to empower and encourage everyone to create learning environments in which all learners are welcome and respected. Topics addressed in the Welcoming Schools Guide include family diversity, gender stereotyping and name-calling.
Healthcare Equality Index
The Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) is a joint project of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Family Project and the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association. Released each spring, the HEI focuses on five main policy areas: patient non-discrimination, hospital visitation, decision making, cultural competency training and employment policies. The initial focus of the project is hospital policies, but the project will expand to include long-term care, assisted living, hospice, community health clinics and other branches of the healthcare industry in the future.
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