Category: USA – LGBTQ Youth
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Scholarship for LGBTQ students in the U.S
Woorke SEO LGBT Gay Annual Scholarship Program 2018 is a chance for 3 Undergraduate or Postgraduate students to receive $1000 each.
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Biden Foundation and YMCA USA In a Joint Effort to Foster LGBTQ Inclusion and Equity
New initiative will develop and implement local strategies to support LGBTQ individuals and families.
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LGBTQ Young Adults Experience Homelessness at More Than Twice the Rate of Non-LGBTQ Peers
New Chapin Hall brief shows LGBTQ youth who are homeless experience high levels of trauma, assault, early death.
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Advocates Set New Goal to Graduate 90 Percent of Homeless Students by 2030
Yesterday, SchoolHouse Connection, the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness (ICPH), Civic Enterprises and America’s Promise Alliance launched Education Leads Home, a first-of-its-kind national campaign focused exclusively on addressing the needs of the 1.3 million homeless students enrolled in America’s public schools.
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One Key Factor Raises LGBTQ Teens’ Suicide Risk
Teens who are gay or lesbian but engage in heterosexual sex are at higher risk of a suicide attempt, new research suggests.
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Federal Appeals Court Upholds SB 1172 Protecting California’s Youth
Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld California SB 1172 which prohibits dangerous and disproved efforts designed to change a young person’s sexual orientation or gender expression that have proven to inflict great emotional harm.