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Materials about working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered people.

CWLA Best practice guidelines: Serving LGBT youth in out-of-home care
URL: http://www.nclrights.org/site/DocServer/bestpracticeslgbtyouth.pdf?docID=1322
These best practice guidelines provide direction to agencies responsible for the care of LGBT youth in out-of-home care specifically, child welfare and juvenile justice professionals. Based on the Legal Services for Children and the National Center for Lesbian Rights' Model Standards Project, the guidelines address the institutional failure to consider gender orientation or identity, an consideration necessary in order to provide appropriate and equitable care to LGBT youth in state custody.
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GLBTQI mental health: Recommendations for policies and services
URL: http://www.upennrrtc.org/var/tool/file/222-GLBTQI_MH_Recommendations_for_Policies_and_Services-1.pdf
This companion* resource guide provides important considerations for service providers and policy makers, including an assessment of the barriers faced by individuals in the GLBTQI community who are seeking mental health care and practical strategies to address these obstacles. The information is based on both a growing body of literature on the topic and the focus groups conducted by the authors. *A Mental Health Recovery and Community Integration Guide for GLBTQI Individuals: What You Need to Know
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Helping Families Support Their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Children
URL: http://www11.georgetown.edu/research/gucchd/nccc/documents/LGBT_Brief.pdf
This practice brief was developed for families, caretakers, advocates, and providers to provide basic information on how families can support their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) children; and share some of the critical new research from the Family Acceptance Project (FAP) at San Francisco State University showing that families have a major impact on their LGBT children's health, mental health, and well-being.
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Issues of access to and inclusion in behavioral health services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and intersex consumers
URL: http://www.upennrrtc.org/var/tool/file/223-OMHSAS%20LGBTQI%20Workgroup%20Recommendations.pdf
Recommendations to the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare’s Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS from the LGBTQI Workgroup on how to ensure that OMHSAS, county mental health programs, behavioral health managed care organizations, and mental health provider agencies reduce disparities in outcomes between LGBTQI individuals with a mental illness and the general population.
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A mental health recovery and community integration guide for GLBTQI individuals: What you need to know
URL: http://www.nami.org/Content/ContentGroups/Multicultural_Support1/Fact_Sheets1/GLBTQI_Recovery_Community_Integration_booklet.pdf
This 12-page booklet covers a range of key issues in mental health recovery and community integration, such as treatment and rehabilitation, financial support, housing, employment, and peer support, with specific information to address the unique needs of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Intersex (GLBTQI) individuals with a mental illness.
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NativeOUT
URL: http://www.NativeOUT.org
Website of NativeOUT, a national unincorporated nonprofit education and media organization that seeks to create social change in rural and urban communities that benefit indigenous lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and Two Spirit people.
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No longer alone: A resource manual for rural sexual minority youth and the adults who serve them
URL: http://www.nyacyouth.org/docs/ruralyouth/NoLongerAlone.pdf
This resource manual assists concerned adults in creating safe environments for rural gay youth. Includes information for students, teachers, and social service providers. Offers a comprehensive list of resources.
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Opening the door to the inclusion of transgender people: The nine keys to making lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organizations fully transgender-inclusive
URL: http://www.nctequality.org/PDFs/Opening_the_Door.pdf
This guide is specifically written for LGBT groups and organizations that want to be more inclusive of transgender people.
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Preventing Suicidal Behavior among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth: Developing LGBT cultural competence
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/PreventingSuicidalBehaviorLGBTYouth.pdf
Lists criteria for agencies, schools and the individuals who work for them to assess LGBT cultural competence, with an emphasis on suicide risk among LGBT youth.
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Preventing transgender suicide: An introduction for providers
URL: http://www.masstpc.org/publications/Provider_Suicide_Brochure_final.pdf
This brochure provides a variety of information relevant to transgender suicide, including: a list of warning signs for suicide; a discussion of the frequency of mental health problems in transgender people; a list of factors that may protect against suicide; a glossary of terms relevant to the transgender population; a list of crisis phone lines; and a list of online resources on transgender issues.
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Recommendations on issues of access to and inclusion in behavioral health services for LGBTQI consumers
URL: http://www.upennrrtc.org/resources/view.php?tool_id=223
The Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS) through contract with the UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration, formed a workgroup to make recommendations to ensure that OMHSAS, and other health providers and agencies acted to reduce disparities in outcomes between GLBTQI individuals with a mental illness and the general population. The workgroup recommendations centered around the goals of ensuring that GLBTQI individuals with a mental illness were protected from mistreatment and offered clinically competent mental health care services in welcoming environments.
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Services for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth and their families: Summary of the Special Forum held at the 2006 Georgetown University Training Institutes
URL: http://gucchd.georgetown.edu/programs/ta_center/TrainingInstitutes/SpecialForums/Services%20for%20GLB,%20Transgender,%20and%20Questioning%20Youth%20and%20their%20Families.pdf
Describes terminology to be used in the discussion and common misconceptions; cultural issues; experience of GLBTQ youth; and a number of strategies that can be implemented to help GLBTQ youth.
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Suicide and gay/lesbian/bisexual youth: implications for clinicians
URL: http://www.ucm.es/info/rqtr/biblioteca/Violencia%20gltb/suicide%20in%20gltb%20youth%20implications%20for%20clinicians.pdf
[Journal Article] Published in: Journal of Adolescence 2001, 24, 39–49. The research indicating the incidence rates and specific risks for suicide in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and questioning (GLBQ) adolescent population is reviewed. An ecological model of suicide risk assessment for GLBQ youth is presented based on Bronfenbrenner’s model of human development. The model argues for individual, micro, and macro levels of assessment to increase clinical judgement and accuracy in determining high risk GLBQ adolescents. The model also delineates both primary and secondary intervention strategies which could be utilized to prevent GLBQ youth suicide.
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Suicide and prevention among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/AAS_GLBT_Youth_SP_2008.pdf
PowerPoint slides from a workshop at the 2008 American Association of Suicidology conference. The workshop focused on suicidal behavior among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) youth. The slides cover research and terminology, risk and protective factors, agency assessment, and implications for suicide prevention programs.
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Suicide risk and prevention for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/SPRC_LGBT_Youth.pdf
This 2008 publication addresses the special concerns related to suicide prevention among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. It summarizes the current state of knowledge about suicidality in this population, and outlines twenty-one recommendations for helping to reduce suicidal behavior among LGBT youth. Includes a resource appendix and an extensive bibliography.
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Teaching transgender : A resource from the National Center for Transgender Equality
URL: http://www.nctequality.org/Resources/NCTE_Teaching_Transgender.pdf
This guide for leading effective trainings includes advice about preparing for the training, teaching terminology, presenting issues of transgender individuals, telling your story, and addressing difficult questions.
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