Come to this webinar to learn more about the unique ways that eating disorders affect LGBTQ youth, current research, and learn program ideas to implement in addressing this issue. This webinar will be guest hosted by the National Eating Disorder Association and will be a great first step in becoming involved in the National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, February 21 – 27, 2010. Visit NEDA Awareness Week to find out more. 

Come to this webinar to learn more about the unique ways that eating disorders affect LGBTQ youth, current research, and learn program ideas to implement in addressing this issue. This webinar will be guest hosted by the National Eating Disorder Association and will be a great first step in becoming involved in the National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, February 21 – 27, 2010. Visit NEDA Awareness Week to find out more. 

Recording of webinar originally presented on January 12, 2010.

These recommendations are broken down into three sections. The first section includes steps intake workers, case managers, social workers, youth supervisors, and others who have regular, direct contact with youth should take to improve the experiences of LGBT youth accessing services. The second section includes steps administrators should take to improve agency-wide culture and effectiveness in serving LGBT youth. The final section includes specific steps both administrators and youth workers should take to improve the experiences of youth in residential settings, whether these settings are emergency shelters or longer term transitional living.

Dated: April 2009

This brief offers an overview of research indicating that each year hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ youth will experience homelessness.

Dated: April 2009

Dated: April 2009

More than 25% of people who are infected with HIV are unaware of their status; youth (ages 13-24) continue to be disproportionately effected by HIV/AIDS and hesitate to seek HIV/AIDS services. This webinar helps HIV counselors and testers assess their skills in counseling youth and provide concrete ways to enhance their counseling skills and offer ways to ensure that barriers to testing experienced by youth are minimized in their testing sessions. In addition, we present strategies designed to mobilize youth for testing services.

Recording of webinar originally presented on November 20, 2008.

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