Creating a Safe Space for GLBTQ Youth: A Toolkit
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Description:
This toolkit, produced by Girl's Best Friend Foundation and Advocates for Youth, is meant to aid workers in creating a welcoming and open environment for GLBTQ individuals in organizations that are not specifically designed for this population.
Content:
Some organizations and programs are intentional about serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioningµ (GLBTQ) youth. However, many youth-serving programs in the United States—including educational, health care, youth development, sports, recreational, and employment programs, among others—ignore, overlook, or reject the presence of GLBTQ youth among those they serve.
The Safe Space Toolkit is intended for youth-serving professionals, especially direct service professionals in such fields as youth development, education, health care, and social work. Unless these professionals work in a program that is exclusively directed toward GLBTQ youth, they may not realize that their program includes GLBTQ youth or that homophobia has negative consequences for both GLBTQ and straight youth in the program. (Authors)
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Type of Resource:
Toolkits/Curricula/Training Materials
Publication Date:
2005
Location:
Chicago, IL & Washington, D.C.
Phone:
202-419-3420