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How to Support Your LGBTQ+ Child
This PDF by The Family Acceptance Project helps families develop a new family model to increase family support, decrease risk and promote the well-being of LGBT children and youth, based on research. This booklet offers basic information to help parents and caregivers support their LGBT children, to reduce their risk for depression, suicide, substance abuse and HIV infection and to promote their well-being.
How to Be Supportive of LGBTQ People
This HRC Coming Out as a Supporter resource, made in partnership with Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) National, is intended to be a welcoming guide for supporters to build bridges of understanding when someone they know comes out to them as LGBT. The guide answers initial questions and shares facts, strategies, and ways to show your support as an ally in the fight for LGBT equality.
Guide to Being a Straight Ally
Straight for Equality is a project developed by PFLAG National specifically created for people who want to stand up for LGBT equality but may not be sure how or even where they fit in. Straight for Equality invites, educates, and engages people who are not LGBT in supporting and advocating for LGBT equality in their homes, workplaces, and all of the communities where they live and belong.
Transgender Children & Youth: Understanding the Basics
This webpage features a brief overview for parents and families in understanding their transgender student.
School and Community Resources
School and Community Resources
Administrative Rule 411 (2)
GSAFE increases the capacity of LGBTQ+ students, educators, and families to create schools in Wisconsin where all youth thrive. They do this by developing the leadership of LGBTQ+ students, supporting Gay-Straight Alliances, training educational staff, advancing educational justice, advocating for public policy, and deepening racial, gender, trans, and social justice.
UW Health's Pediatric and Adolescent Transgender Health (PATH) Clinic
The Pediatric and Adolescent Transgender Health (PATH) Clinic in Madison, Wisconsin provides education about medical care options for gender-variant children and adolescents.
They can provide the full spectrum of care, from simple observation and guidance to hormone suppression and hormone affirming therapy for children of all ages.
Clinic: (608) 263-6420
Briarpatch hosts an affirming group for LGBTQ+ youth ages 13-18: Teens Like Us (TLU)
TLU meets Tuesdays from 5pm-7pm and organizes periodic social activities. All activities are designed to promote healthy, self-respecting lifestyles. Group topics include HIV/AIDS prevention, self-esteem building and leadership skills development. TLU members can also receive individual counseling and case management from Briarpatch staff.
Briarpatch also offers a 24-hour helpline: 608-251-6211 or 800-798-1126
Proud Theater is a youth theater program whose mission is ‘to change the world through the power of theater and the theater arts, and to make a positive difference in the lives of LGBTQ+ and allied youth through the tenets of art, heart, and activism’. Proud Theater is open to youth ages 13 to 19 who identify as LGBTQ+ or ally. Proud Theater is also open to youth with LGBTQ+ parents. Empowering and creative, Proud Theater encourages young people to share their own stories through original theatrical works which they then present to the community at large throughout the school year. There are local chapters located in both Madison and Sun Prairie
PFLAG is an organization for parents, families, friends and allies united with LGBTQ people to move equality forward.
South Central Wisconsin's LGBT Community Center
Contact: 608-255-8582
Research
Research
Family Acceptance in Adolescence and the Health of LGBT Young Adults
Family acceptance predicts greater self-esteem, social support, and general health status; it also protects against depression, substance abuse, and suicidal ideation and behaviors.
Experiences of LGBT Youth Online
Out Online: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth on the Internet examines the online experiences of LGBT students in 6-12th grade. LGBT youth experience nearly three times as much bullying and harassment online as non-LGBT youth, but also find greater peer support, access to health information, and opportunities to be civically engaged.
(Graphic) Behaviors that Increase Your LGBT Child's Health and Well-Being.pdfReport abuse