Creating Safer Spaces For LGBTQ Youth: A Toolkit for Education, Healthcare, and Community-Based Organizations

A. Butler

This Toolkit has been developed to assist individuals, community-based organizations, providers, healthcare staff, educators, and others that see the value of incorporating key safer space components into their organizations so that young people survive and thrive. Recommendations serve as a guide and should be tailored to each individual young person and organizational setting. This Toolkit was created through the lens of our Queer and Gender Equity Project (QGEP) which launched 10+ years ago. The QGEP provides support to organizations seeking to enhance their support for LGBTQ youth, especially young people of color, via education, policy, research, professional training, and technical assistance.