These policy recommendations serve as a blueprint for advocates, leaders, and service providers to better support LGBTQ youth of color in child welfare systems.
(23 pp)
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getREAL Webinar: Implicit Bias Research: Understanding the Dynamics of Unconscious Associations
January 2015
This webinar provides an introduction to the science of implicit bias. Viewers will learn about the formation of implicit associations as well as the key dynamics of this social psychological phenomenon.
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Surviving the Streets of NYC: Experiences of LGBTQ Youth Engaged in Survival Sex
March 2015
In this webinar, Meredith Danks shares findings from a study completed in New York City involving 283 LGBTQ youth engaged in survival sex. She also discusses the complexity of Commercial Sexual Exploitation.
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getREAL Webinar: #BornPerfect
June 2015
In this webinar, Samantha Ames gives an overview of so-called “conversion therapy” and provide tools for attendees to become advocates to end these dangerous and discredited practices.
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beFIERCE: Actively Engaging and Supporting LGBTQ Foster Youth
June 2015
This webinar provides participants with information about beFIERCE, a new publication that invites you to actively engage in supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) foster youth.
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getREAL Webinar: Allegheny
June 2015
This webinar provides participants with information about work done the first two years of getR.E.A.L Allegheny. It details the progress, challenges, successes, and opportunities the project affords children and families.
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Yes, There are Way More Than 3!: Estimating LGBTQ Youth in the Foster Care System
November 2014
In this webinar, Dr. Bianca D.M. Wilson discusses the state of sexual orientation and gender identity demographic research among adolescents. It explores what research has discerned about sexual and gender minority foster youth.
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Recommended Practice and Reality for Trans & Gender-Expansive Youth in Out-of-Home Care
July 2017
In this webinar, presenters share findings from their report, “Safe Havens: Closing the Gap Between Recommended Practice and Reality for Transgender and Gender-Expansive Youth in Out-of-Home Care.”
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Transgender and Gender Nonconforming (TGNC) Children in California Foster Care
February 2016
The purpose of this brief is to support the efforts of California child welfare professionals to promote the safety, permanency, and well-being of TGNC children in foster care.
(11 pp)
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State Policies Concerning LGBTQ Youth
September 2014
This brief lists policies pertaining to LGBTQ youth for each state, including D.C. It covers public accommodations, social services, child welfare, foster care, juvenile detention, educational facilities, and social worker guidelines.
(135 pp)