LGBTQ+ Youth Resources

Because some LGBTQ+ Youth are more likely than their heterosexual peers to experience bullying or other aggression in school, it is important that educators, counselors, and school administrators have access to resources and support to create a safe, healthy learning environment for all students.

• Advocates for Youth (AFY): LGBTQ Resources for Professionals
  Lesson plans, tips and strategies, background information, and additional resources to help youth-serving professionals create safe spaces for young people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
• American Psychological Association (APA) Resources:
  • Just the Facts: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel
    Just the Facts provides information and resources for principals, educators and school personnel who confront sensitive issues involving gay, lesbian, and bisexual students.
  • Safe and Supportive Schools Project
    The Safe and Supportive Schools Project promotes safe and supportive environments to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among adolescents.
• Creating Safer Spaces in Schools for LGBTQ Youth | The Trevor Project
  The Trevor Project is a national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.
• Educator Resources | GLSEN
  GLSEN educator guides and lessons to support your curriculum and practices.
• Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network
  GSA clubs are student-run organizations that unite LGBTQ+ and allied youth to build community and organize around issues impacting them in their schools and communities.
• Q Chat Space
  Q Chat Space is a digital LGBTQ+ center where teens join live-chat, professionally facilitated, online support groups. Also available in Spanish (disponible en español).
• StopBullying.gov: Information for LGBTQ Youth
  Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) youth and those perceived as LGBT are at an increased risk of being bullied. There are important and unique considerations for strategies to prevent and address bullying of LGBTQ youth.
• Supporting LGBTQ+ Students – Micro-credentials | National Education Foundation
  This stack of six micro-credentials is designed to help educators understand how to create a safe and inclusive classroom environment for LGBTQ+ students.
• The Trevor Project: Education and Resources for Adults
  The Trevor Project’s “Trainings for Professionals” include in-person Ally and CARE trainings designed for adults who work with youth. These trainings help counselors, educators, administrators, school nurses, and social workers discuss LGBTQ-competent suicide prevention.

Because some LGBT Youth are more likely than their heterosexual peers to experience bullying or other aggression in school, it is important that educators, counselors, and school administrators have access to resources and support to create a safe, healthy learning environment for all students.

• Advocates for Youth (AFY): LGBTQ Resources for Professionals
  Lesson plans, tips and strategies, background information, and additional resources to help youth-serving professionals create safe space for young people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
• American Psychological Association (APA) Resources
  • Healthy Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Students Project
    The Safe and Supportive Schools Project promotes safe and supportive environments to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among adolescents.
  • Just the Facts: A Primer for Principals, Educators, and School Personnel
    Just the Facts provides information and resources for principals, educators and school personnel who confront sensitive issues involving gay, lesbian and bisexual students.
  • Understanding Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
    Accurate information for those who want to better understand sexual orientation.
• Bullied: A Student, a School and a Case That Made History: Teaching materials for educators
  “Bullied” is a documentary film designed to help administrators, teachers and counselors create a safer school environment for all students, not just those who are gay and lesbian.
• CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health: Protective Factors for LGBTQ+ Youth: Information for Health and Education Professionals
  Information summarizing key findings that can strengthen programs and research that support LGBT Youth.
• Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN): Educator Resources
  GLSEN educator guides and lessons to support your curriculum and practices.
• Genders and Sexualities Alliance (GSA) Network
  GSA clubs are student-run organizations that unite LGBTQ+ and allied youth to build community and organize around issues impacting them in their schools and communities.
• HIV and Youth
  Addressing HIV in youth requires that young people have access to information and tools they need to reduce their risk, make healthy decisions, and get treatment and care if they have HIV.
• National Alliance to End Homelessness: Serving LGBT Homeless Youth
  To end LGBTQ+ Youth homelessness, youth and young adults need stable housing, supportive connections to caring adults, and access to mainstream services that will place them on a path to long-term success.
• National Education Association: 6 Tips for Educators Dealing with Harassment of LGBT Students
  From Stepping Out of the Closet, Into the Light: A Report on the Status of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People in Education
• StopBullying.gov: Information for LGBTQ+ Youth
  Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) Youth and those perceived as LGBT are at an increased risk of being bullied. There are important and unique considerations for strategies to prevent and address bullying of LGBTQ+ Youth.
• The Trevor Project: Education and Resources for Adults
  The Trevor Project’s “Trainings for Professionals” include in-person Ally and CARE trainings designed for adults who work with youth. These trainings help counselors, educators, administrators, school nurses, and social workers discuss LGBTQ-competent suicide prevention.
• Welcoming Schools New
  The most comprehensive bias-based bullying prevention program in the nation to provide LGBTQ+ and gender inclusive professional development training, lesson plans, booklists and resources specifically designed for educators and youth-serving professionals.

Some LGBT Youth are more likely than their heterosexual peers to experience bullying or other aggression in school. It is important that educators, counselors, and school administrators have access to resources and support to create a safe, healthy learning environment for all students.

• Advocates for Youth (AFY): Are you an Askable Parent?
  AFY provides lesson plans, tips and strategies, background information, and additional resources to help youth-serving professionals create safe space for young people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
• American Psychological Association: Understanding Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
  Accurate information for those who want to better understand sexual orientation.

• The Family Acceptance Project
  The Family Acceptance Project is a research, intervention, education, and policy initiative that works to prevent health and mental health risks for LGBT children and youth.
• HealthyChildren.org: Coming Out: Information for Parents of LGBT Teens
  “Coming out” is a lifelong journey of understanding, acknowledging and sharing one’s gender identity and/or sexual orientation with others.
• Kidshealth.org: Sexual Attraction and Orientation
  Information for parents on how youth experience sexual attraction and orientation, as well as how you as a parent or guardian may feel about and deal with youth on this topic.
• PFLAG and PFLAG Connects Communities
  Information about PFLAG’s confidential peer and parent support and education in communities.
• Parents’ Influence on the Health of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Teens: What Parents and Families Should Know Cdc-pdf[PDF – 254 KB]
  Information on how parents can promote positive health outcomes for their LGB teen.PFLAG Connects Communities
• SAMHSA: Helping Families to Support Their LGBT Children
  This resource guide was developed to help practitioners who work in a wide range of settings to understand the critical role of family acceptance and rejection in contributing to the health and well-being of adolescents who identify as LGBT.
• StopBullying.gov: Information for Parents
  Parents play a key role in preventing and responding to bullying. If you know or suspect that your child is involved in bullying, here are several resources that may help.
• Youth.gov: Electronic Aggression
  Increased access to technology has benefits, but it also can increase the risk of abuse.