Social distancing requires a new set of strategies and provides new opportunities to support and affirm LGBTQ youth, especially when they live in unsupportive environments. This tip-sheet offers key considerations when working with LGBTQ students in virtual settings, and guidance to help mitigate some of the emerging challenges they face when social distancing practices are required.

BOP (Bisexual Organizing Project) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit registered in Minnesota that serves the Upper Midwest. We are committed to building the bisexual, pansexual, fluid, queer, and unlabeled (bi+) community through regular events and the yearly national BECAUSE conference. BOP is welcoming and inclusive of everyone, including but not limited to people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, sexes, relationship orientations, ethnicities, abilities, religions, and political affiliations.

RECLAIM works to increase access to mental health support so that queer and trans youth* may reclaim their lives from oppression in all its forms. Reclaim partners with youth ages 13 – 25 who are marginalized because of their gender identity, gender expression and/or sexual orientation. In addition to providing excellent care for youth, our vision is to change the landscape of access to care for queer and trans youth. We do this through deep practitioner development, training, education and outreach, and community partnerships at the intersection of gender and racial justice.

Support Groups, Shot Clinic, Hep C & HIV Testing, Syringe Exchange

MN Transgender Health Coalition offers several FREE services to the Trans* & Gender non-conforming community including Shot Clinic, Syringe Exchange, Monthy HIV testing, Support Groups, Food Shelf, Gender Gear Program, Gender Lending Library and more! Our office and community space is located at 3405 Chicago Ave S, Suite 103, Minneapolis, MN 55407, phone: 612-823-1152. We're on the 5 bus line! Enter in the back of the building, some parking in back with more parking on the street.

OutFront Minnesota’s mission is to create a state where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people are free to be who they are, love who they love, and live without fear of violence, harassment or discrimination.

We envision a state where LGBTQ individuals have equal opportunities, protection and rights. We are working toward the day when all Minnesotans have the freedom, power and confidence to make the best choices for their own lives.

The mission of JustUs Health is to work for equitable health care access and outcomes for people who experience injustice at the intersection of health status and identity.

We center individuals and communities at risk of and living with HIV or facing barriers to equitable health care access and outcomes because of their identity as gender, sexual and/ or racial minorities.

The MN LGBTQ HealthHub is a project of JustUs Health.

The mission of JustUs Health is to work for equitable health care access and outcomes for people who experience injustice at the intersection of health status and identity.

We center individuals and communities at risk of and living with HIV or facing barriers to equitable health care access and outcomes because of their identity as gender, sexual and/ or racial minorities.

We also provide educational resources for both care seekers and providers.

The Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life provides education, advocacy, outreach, and support to students, staff, faculty, alum and community members.

We strive to create a campus climate where more inclusive understandings of gender and sexuality foster a sense of belonging for all.

The MN LGBTQ+ Therapists' Network (The Network) has 150+ paid members who are working or studying in mental health, social service, wellness, healing practices and related fields. We offer a public online resource directory of our members and their services. We also have an active Facebook site which has over 800 members. The majority of our members are located in the five county Twin Cities metro area. Our other members hail from Greater MN, Wisconsin and Eastern North Dakota. The Network is coordinated by a volunteer steering committee of its members.

Latitudes is a LGBTQ facility designed to meet the specific substance abuse and mental health needs of the LGBTQ community. Located in St. Paul, Minnesota, Latitudes is more than a treatment center, it’s a place for men and women, 18 years of age and older, to transform into the people they’ve always strived to become. A place where fear is replaced with hope and recovery becomes a reality. By incorporating a full spectrum of evidence-based treatment models and partnering with LGBTQ-specific community partners, Latitudes is able to provide the right kind of opportunities to make lasting change possible. Each person who enters into Latitudes will work closely with an individual counselor as well as in groups to build healthy new ways of leading a healthy lifestyle.

Pride Institute offers inclusive and accepting recovery programs for members of the LGBTQ+ community. Pride first opened in 1986 and has since gone on to be one of the leading providers in the area of residential and outpatient program treatment for substance use and addiction needs of the LGBTQ+ population.