Lambda Legal and The Child Welfare League of America have created a comprehensive toolkit that allows biological family, caregivers, and professionals to learn information about what LGBTQ means and how you can support a youth in foster care who identify as such.
Topics include:
-
Basic Facts About Being LGBTQ
-
Information for LGBTQ Youth in Care
-
Families Supporting an LGBTQ Child
-
Caseworkers with LGBTQ Clients
-
Foster Parents Caring for LGBTQ Youth
-
Congregate Care Providers Working with LGBTQ Youth
-
Attorneys, Guardians ad Litem & Advocates Representing LGBTQ Youth
-
Working with Transgender Youth
-
Keeping LGBTQ Youth Safe in Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Placements
-
Working with Homeless LGBTQ Youth
-
Faith-Based Providers Working with LGBTQ Youth
-
Basic LGBTQ Policies, Training & Services for Child Welfare Agencies
-
Recommendations for Training & Education on LGBTQ Issues
-
What the Experts Say: Position & Policy Statements on LGBTQ Issues from Leading Professional Associations
-
LGBTQ Youth Resources
-
Teaching LGBTQ Competence in Schools of Social Work
-
Combating Misguided Efforts to Ban Lesbian & Gay Adults as Foster & Adoptive Parents
-
LGBTQ Youth Risk Data
View the resource by clicking on the link below.