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National Resources for LGBTQ Youth National Resources for LGBTQ Youth NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS PO Box 1435 Palm Springs, CA 92263-1435 Phone: 661-367-2421 LAMBDA LEGAL www.affirmation.org Lambda Legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the AMBIENTE JOVEN civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, Ambiente Joven is a project of Advocates for transgender people and those with HIV through Youth and is dedicated to the gay, lesbian and impact litigation, education and public policy transgender Latino/a youth community in the work. U.S. and Latin America, with the goal of providing information about sexual and mental 120 Wall Street, 19th Floor health, as well as general cultural information. (National Headquarters) New York, NY 10005 www.ambientejoven.org Phone: 866-LGBTeen (toll free) / 212-809-8585 Email: [email protected] www.lambdalegal.org BISEXUAL RESOURCE CENTER BRC is a website dedicated to providing resources to the bisexual community, as well as CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA those who identify as pansexual, fluid, etc. It (CWLA) includes youth resources. CWLA is an association of nearly 1000 public and private nonprofit agencies that assist over Email: [email protected] 3.5 million abused and neglected children and www.biresource.net their families each year with a wide range of services. CASEY FAMILY PROGRAMS 1726 M Street NW, Suite 500 Casey Family Programs’ Life Skills Assessment Washington, DC, 20036 is a free and easy-to-use tool to help young Phone: 202-688-4200 people prepare for adulthood. The Assessment Fax: 202-833-1689 includes an optional supplement developed www.cwla.org specifically for LGBTQ youth. It provides instant feedback. Customized learning plans provide a clear outline of next steps, and the AFFIRMATION: GAY AND LESBIAN accompanying teaching resources are available MORMONS for free or at a minimal cost. Affirmation’s mission is to provide a forum for gay Mormons to associate with their peers. It 2001 8th Avenue, Suite 2700 seeks to meet the needs of persons experiencing Seattle, WA 98121 frustration or alienation from family, friends, Phone: 206-282-7300 and the Church. Affirmation includes extensive Fax: 206-282-3555 resources for transgender individuals and youth. www.casey.org CENTERLINK FAMILY EQUALITY COUNCIL The National Association of LGBT Community The Family Equality Council works to ensure Centers’ website features the capability to search equality for LGBT families by building for LGBT community centers in your city or community, changing hearts and minds, and state. Centers are the primary point of contact advancing social justice for all families. for people coming out and seeking LGBT health services, community information and referrals. PO Box 206 Boston, MA 02133 PO Box 24490 Phone: 617-502-8700 Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33307 Fax: 617-502-8701 Phone: 954-765-6024 Email: [email protected] Fax: 954-765-6593 www.familyequality.org Email: [email protected] www.lgbtcenters.org THE GAY, LESBIAN AND STRAIGHT EDUCATION NETWORK (GLSEN) CHILDREN OF LESBIANS AND GAYS GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight EVERYWHERE (COLAGE) Education Network, is the leading national COLAGE is the only national and international education organization focused on ensuring safe organization in the world specifically supporting schools for all students. young people with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender parents. 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10004 4509 Interlake Avenue N, #180 Phone: 212-727-0135 Seattle, WA 98103 Fax: 212-727-0254 Phone: 855-4-COLAGE Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.glsen.org www.colage.org GENDER SPECTRUM FAMILY ACCEPTANCE PROJECT Gender Spectrum provides education, resources The Family Acceptance Project™ is a and training to help you create a more gender community research, intervention and education sensitive and supportive environment for all initiative to study the impact of family people, including gender variant and transgender acceptance and rejection on the health, mental youth. In a simple, straightforward manner, health and well-being of LGBT youth. Results Gender Spectrum helps students, families, will be used to help families provide support for schools, and organizations understand and LGBT youth, to develop appropriate address the concepts of gender identity. Their interventions, programs and policies, and to train accessible, practical approach is based on providers to improve the quality of services and research and experience, enabling their clients to care they receive. gain a deeper understanding of gender variance. Caitlin Ryan, Director 1122 E. Pike Street #796 Adolescent Health Initiatives Seattle, WA 98122 César E. Chávez Institute Phone: 510-567-3977 San Francisco State University Email: [email protected] 3004 - 16th Street #301 www.genderspectrum.org San Francisco, CA 94103 Email: [email protected] http://familyproject.sfsu.edu/ 2 www.lambdalegal.org GLBT NATIONAL HELP CENTER MATTHEW’S PLACE The GLBT National Help Center is dedicated to An online community and resource center for meeting the needs of this community and those GLBTQQ and allied youth, the Youth Lounge questioning their sexual orientation or gender provides resources about GLBTQQ youth identity. The hotline offers free and confidential friendly shelters, outreach centers and peer-counseling, information and local resources empowerment programs across the country. It for cities and towns throughout the United includes moderated chats, discussion boards, and States. It offers counsel to callers of all ages informational columns from notable individuals about coming out issues, relationship concerns, in the GLBTQQ and allied communities. HIV/AIDS anxiety, safer-sex information and more. www.matthewsplace.com 2261 Market Street, PMB #296 NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN San Francisco, CA 94114 RIGHTS (NCLR) National Hotline: 888-843-4564 Youth Talkline: 800-246-7743 NCLR is a national legal resource center with a Administrative Phone: 415-355-0003 primary commitment to advancing the rights and Fax: 415-552-5498 safety of lesbians and their families through a Email: [email protected] program of litigation, public policy advocacy, www.GLBTNationalHelpCenter.org free legal advice and counseling and public education. HEARTSTRONG 870 Market Street, Suite 370 HeartStrong is a nonprofit social justice San Francisco, CA 94102 organization founded to provide information and Phone: 415-392-6257 support to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and Fax: 415-392-8442 transgender people who attend or are employed Email: [email protected] by religious schools of all denominations, www.nclrights.org kindergarten through university. NATIONAL CENTER FOR 478 East Altamonte Drive, Suite 108 #714 TRANSGENDER EQUALITY Altamonte Springs, FL 32701 The National Center for Transgender Equality Email: [email protected] (NCTE) is a 501(c)(3) social justice organization http://www.heartstrong.org/ dedicated to advancing the equality of transgender people through advocacy, LGBTQ MUSLIM YOUTH collaboration and empowerment. Young people who are Muslim and identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or who may 1325 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 700 be questioning their sexual orientation or gender Washington, DC 20005 identity, are welcomed to join this online Phone: 202-903-0112 discussion group. Fax: 202-393-2241 www.transequality.org/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LGBTQMuslimY outh/ 3 www.lambdalegal.org NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCACY PARENTS, FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF COALITION (NYAC) LESBIANS AND GAYS (PFLAG) The National Youth Advocacy Coalition is a PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of capacity-building organization that advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons and with LGBTQ young people in an effort to and their families and friends through: support, end discrimination against these youth and to to cope with an adverse society; education, to ensure their physical and emotional well-being. enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, NYAC builds the capacity of organizations that to end discrimination and to secure equal civil serve LGBTQ youth through technical rights. assistance, resource sharing, and youth engagement. 1828 L Street NW, Suite 660 (National Office) Washington, DC 20036 1638 R Street NW, Suite 300 Phone: 202-467-8180 Washington, DC 20009 Fax: 202-349-0788 Phone: 800-541-6922 Email: [email protected] Fax: 877-492-8916 www.pflag.org Email: [email protected] www.nyacyouth.org RENAISSANCE TRANSGENDER ASSOCIATION OPENING DOORS PROJECT RTA offers support groups in various locations The Opening Doors Project, a project of the on the East Coast, and its website offers American Bar Association’s Center on Children extensive resources for transgender people. and the Law, aims to increase the legal community’s awareness of LGBTQ youth in 987 Old Eagle School Road, Suite 719 foster care and the unique issues they face, and Wayne, PA 19087 to provide the legal community with advocacy Phone: 610-636-1990 tools to successfully represent these youth. www.ren.org 740 15th Street NW SAFE SCHOOLS COALITION Washington, DC 20005-1019 Phone: 202-662-1720 The Safe Schools Coalition is a public-private Fax: 202-662-1755 partnership in support of LGBT youth to help Email: Please direct inquiries to schools — at home and all over the world — Mimi Laver: [email protected] or become safe places where every family can Andrea Khoury: [email protected] belong, where every educator can teach and www.americanbar.org/groups/child_law/what_
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