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The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is a nonprofit California organization that operates the nation’s only 24-hour suicide prevention helpline especially geared towards gay and questioning youth. It also provides other services, including guidance and resource for teens, teachers, parents and educators.
Gay teens are two to three times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers, believed to be partly due to their increased risk of depression and anxiety triggered by the widespread harassment and bullying of gay teens.
++++++++++ Spring 2006 Issue of THE LINK
The lead article of this issue of CWLA’s newsletter that connects delinquency and abuse and neglect is “The Legal Rights of Young People in State Custody: What Juvenile Justice Professionals Need to Know When Working with LGBT Youth.” The article identifies a series of rights of LGBT kids in the juvenile justice system: The right to safe conditions of confinement; the right to mental and physical health care; and the right not to be placed in conditions that amount to punishment. In the same issue see “Adolescents, Maturity, and the Law: Why Science and Development Matter in Juvenile Justice,” an article by Jeffrey Fagan examining juvenile crime, how it is perceived by the juvenile justice system, and the mismatch between juvenile maturation and culpability. ++++++++++ Counting Homeless Gay Youths The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Community Center of Greater Cleveland will coordinate visits to homeless hangouts to offer medical referrals and to survey youths ages 14 to 24 this summer. The study will be among the first in years to examine the issue. Gay youths leave home for the same reasons as other teens: abuse, depression or drugs. They are also on the street because families kick them out because of their sexual orientation. ++++++++++ Juvenile Mental Health |
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