Generating a Revolution in Prevention, Wellness, and Care for LGBT Children and Youth
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GENERATING A REVOLUTION IN PREVENTION,
WELLNESS, AND CARE FOR LGBT CHILDREN AND
YOUTH
by CAITLIN RYAN*
INTRODUCTION
I want to start by reimagining the future for LGBT youth. Let's start with what
we know and what programs, policies, and services continue to reinforce at the
individual and systems level. We know a great deal about very negative health and
social outcomes that LGBT young people face and have faced for decades. These
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include a range of serious negative outcomes that affect individuals, their families,
and society, in general, through the health and social costs of stigma, restricted life
chances and lost lives.
Then I want to talk about where we need to go. We have a framework through
the work of the Family Acceptance Project (FAP)' and the emergence of family-
based services to change this for so many LGBT young people who have been
separated from their families, their cultures and their communities. The Family
Acceptance Project is a research, intervention, education, and policy initiative that
* PhD, ACSW, Director, Family Acceptance Project, SF State University.
1. FAMILY ACCEPTANCE PROJECT, http://familyproject.sfsu.edu/ (last visited Apr. 20, 2014).
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