Found 40 matches.
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Intersectional Justice in Practice
Tags: Federal | North Carolina | LGBTQ Youth | Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Prevention | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Victims | Advocacy | Presentations | Reports | Research | Partner Publications | Fact Sheets and Briefs
This powerpoint from NJJN Forum 2018 was put together by Ames Simmons, Director of Transgender Policy at Equality North Carolina, and addresses potential legislative responses to discriminatory policies and practices that unfairly target LGBTQ youth.
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LGBTQI Youth in Juvenile Justice Settings: Closing the Gap between Recommended Practice and Reality
Tags: Federal | New York | Collateral Consequences | Crime Data and Statistics | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | LGBTQ Youth | Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Physical Health | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Prevention | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Evidence-Based Practices | Advocacy | Administrative/Regulatory Policies | Court Decisions and Related Documents | Legislation | Presentations | Reports | Research | Partner Publications | Fact Sheets and Briefs
This presentation from NJJN Forum 2018 was developed by Currey Cook, Youth in Out-of-Home Care Project Director at Lambda Legal, and provides information on how LGBTQ youth are disproportionately represented in the justice system and legal protections granted to members of the LGBTQ community.
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Understanding Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression (SOGIE) Data for Stanislaus County, CA
Tags: California | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | General System Reform | Girls | LGBTQ Youth | Advocacy | Reports | Research | Partner Publications | Fact Sheets and Briefs
This study by Dr. Angela Irvine at Ceres Policy Research examines the need to continue to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system, while also considering the way that race intersects with sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression (SOGIE) among system-involved youth. This report also highlights the efforts of Stanislaus County, CA to achieve both of these goals.
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Think Outside the Walls: LGBTQ Youth
Tags: Connecticut | Girls | LGBTQ Youth | Member Publications | Fact Sheets and Briefs
Issue brief from Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance focusing on LGBTQ youth in the juvenile justice system and girls with distinct mental health needs floundering in a juvenile justice system that is designed for boys.
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Unjust: How the Broken Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems Fail LGBTQ Youth
Tags: National | General System Reform | LGBTQ Youth | Reports
The report identifies several factors in the overrepresentation of LGBTQ youth in the system: pervasive anti-LGBT stigma and discrimination in families and communities; and how LGBTQ young people are unfairly treated and abused in the system.
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Ban on Anti-Gay 'Therapy' Hailed as Step Against Hatred
Tags: Vermont | LGBTQ Youth | Media
In May 2016, Vermont became the fifth state to outlaw conversion therapy, a practice aimed at changing a person’s sexual or gender identity.
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Locked In: Interactions with the Criminal Justice and Child Welfare Systems for LGBTQ Youth, YMSM, and YWSW Who Engage in Survival Sex
Tags: New York | LGBTQ Youth
In 2011, researchers from the Urban Institute launched a three-year study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) youth; young men who have sex with men (YMSM); and young women who have sex with women (YWSW) engaged in survival sex in New York City.
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: A Guide to Juvenile Detention Reform
Tags: National | LGBTQ Youth | Reports
This comprehensive publication provides juvenile justice agencies with the tools to meet their obligation to ensure the safety and well-being of LGBT youth in their care. Although the guide is focused primarily on LGBT youth, its recommendations will benefit all justice-involved youth by exposing and challenging bias, promoting mutual respect and increasing professionalism.
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Power in Partnerships: Building Connections at the Intersections of Racial Justice and LGBTQ Movements to End the School-to-Prison-Pipeline
Tags: National | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | LGBTQ Youth | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Reports
Over the last decade, the school-to-prison pipeline has gone from a fringe educational issue to a national youth-led movement anchored by grassroots communities across the country. Because of the school-to-prison pipeline’s unique effects on students of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students, and especially LGBTQ students of color, the issue has provided an opportunity for powerful intersectional work among the racial justice community and the LGBTQ community. And while we have made a lot of progress by harnessing our joint power, we would like to—and desperately need to—build even more. This is essential if we are going to win. Power in Partnerships is a resource for all racial justice and LGBTQ groups to help build or continue to build that power.
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LGBTQ Youth of Color: Discipline Disparities, School Push-Out, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Tags: National | LGBTQ Youth | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Reports | Research | Partner Publications
LGBT students are at an increased risk for verbal and physical harassment and assault, mental illness and suicide, harsh disciplinary policies that contribute to school push-out, etc. This study finds that schools are hostile spaces to many students of color.
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LGBTQ Youth of Color: School Discipline Disparities Recommendations
Tags: National | LGBTQ Youth | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Reports
New research from GSA Network and Crossroads Collaborative finds that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, gender nonconforming youth, and youth of color not only face bullying and harassment from peers, but also harsh and disparate discipline from school staff, relatively higher levels of policing and surveillance, and blame for their own victimization. Based on these findings, Advancement Project and GSA Network make the following recommendations for youth, teachers, school administrators, and policy makers.
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Helping Families to Support Their LGBT Children
Tags: National | LGBTQ Youth | Research
Research combined by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, provides guidelines for families on how to promote the well-being of LGBT children. Parents and caregivers are big influences in their children's life, and learning how to be accepting and provide a stable home environment is key.
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Helping Families to Support their LGBT Children
Tags: National | LGBTQ Youth | Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Reports
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has released this practitioners' guide to helping families support their LGBT children.
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Policy Review and Development Guide: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender. and Intersex Persons in Custodial Settings
Tags: National | LGBTQ Youth | Administrative/Regulatory Policies
The National Institute of Corrections has released a policy review and development guide aimed at correctional administrators and staff, as well as medical and mental health personnel, to help them craft policies that account for the specific needs of LGBTI individuals in custodial settings.
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Defending Childhood: Report of the Attorney General's National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence
Tags: Federal | Brain and Adolescent Development | General System Reform | Girls | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | LGBTQ Youth | Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Physical Health | Prevention | Risk Assessment and Screening | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Victims | Reports
The U.S. Attorney General's National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence report makes recommendations to prevent children from exposure to crime, abuse, and violence; and assist those who have been. Includes recommendations to improve the juvenile justice system.
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Defending Childhood: [Executive Summary] Report of the Attorney General's National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence
Tags: Federal | Brain and Adolescent Development | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | General System Reform | Girls | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | LGBTQ Youth | Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Prevention | Risk Assessment and Screening | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Victims | Reports
This document summarizes key recommendations from the Attorney General to prevent children from exposure to crime, abuse, and violence; and assist those who have been exposed. Includes recommendations to improve the juvenile justice system. [Executive Summary]
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DOJ Consent Decree Regarding the New Orleans Police Department
Tags: Louisiana | LGBTQ Youth | Administrative/Regulatory Policies | Court Decisions and Related Documents
In a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the New Orleans Police Department agrees to "fundamentally change the way it polices the New Orleans community.” The consent decree is a result of DOJ findings of patterns of misconduct that violate the Constitution and federal law--especially as applied to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.
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The Unfair Criminalization of Gay and Transgender Youth: An Overview of the Experiences of LGBT Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Tags: LGBTQ Youth | Reports
An issue brief by the Center for American Progress that details the circumstances that create a significant over-representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth in the juvenile justice system.
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Non-Discriminatory, Developmentally-Sound Treatment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Youth, New Orleans Youth Study Center
Tags: Louisiana | Detention | Institutional Conditions | LGBTQ Youth | Administrative/Regulatory Policies
Policy providing eleven procedural guidelines regarding LGBT youth, including a definition of what qualifies as discrimination, harassment, and abuse of LGBT youth; a prohibition on discriminating or threatening anyone based upon their sexual orientation or gender identity, by both staff and other incarcerated youth; and a prohibition on placing LGBT youth in isolation as a "means of keeping them safe from discrimination." The policy also includes provisions regarding transgender youth, including that transgender youth will not be forced to shower or change clothing in front of staff or other youth-a situation that can be especially humiliating and terrifying for this demographic.
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Youth Study Center Becomes National Leader with Model LGBT Policy
Tags: Louisiana | Detention | Institutional Conditions | LGBTQ Youth | Administrative/Regulatory Policies
Press release regarding LGBT policy for New Orleans' juvenile detention center, which provides eleven procedural guidelines, including a definition of what qualifies as discrimination, harassment, and abuse of LGBT youth; a prohibition on discriminating or threatening anyone based upon their sexual orientation or gender identity, by both staff and other incarcerated youth; and a prohibition on placing LGBT youth in isolation as a "means of keeping them safe from discrimination." The policy also includes provisions regarding transgender youth, including that transgender youth will not be forced to shower or change clothing in front of staff or other youth-a situation that can be especially humiliating and terrifying for this demographic.
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Youth Study Center LGBT Policies, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 2011
Tags: Louisiana | LGBTQ Youth | Administrative/Regulatory Policies
The policy oversees the protection of LGBT youth already in the custody of the system—estimated at 15 percent, according to national data—and also mandates that direct care staff, supervisors, and social service providers at the detention center undergo training to help create a safer environment for LGBT youth in their care. The policy provides eleven procedural guidelines, including a definition of what qualifies as discrimination, harassment, and abuse of LGBT youth; a prohibition on discriminating or threatening anyone based upon their sexual orientation or gender identity, by both staff and other incarcerated youth; and a prohibition on placing LGBT youth in isolation as a “means of keeping them safe from discrimination.”
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LGBTQ Youth Policies, New York City, July 2011
Tags: New York | Detention | Institutional Conditions | LGBTQ Youth | Administrative/Regulatory Policies
The policies—which draw from guidelines issued by New York’s Office of Children and Family Services in 2008—cover LGBTQ identities and language, disclosure, confidentiality, cultural competency training, medical/mental health, bedroom/bathroom arrangements, personal grooming, search issues, and transition/reentry planning.
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DOJ Investigation of the New Orleans Police Department
Tags: Louisiana | LGBTQ Youth | Reports
The U.S. Department of Justice's 2011 investigation of the New Orleans Police Department finds "reasonable cause to believe that NOPD engages in patterns of misconduct that violate the Constitution and federal law," including a culture of discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.
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When Your Attorney Is Your Enemy: Preliminary Thoughts on Ensuring Effective Representation for Queer Youth, Sarah Valentine, Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 19, No.3
Tags: Juvenile Defense and Court Process | LGBTQ Youth | Reports
Article discussing the bias and prejudice in the judicial and child welfare systems that affect queer youth; the role continuum that allows attorneys representing children to provide less than traditional advocacy; the effect an attorney can have on a queer child; and four mechanisms by which a queer child harmed by an attorney who provides less than traditional advocacy can seek redress.
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Locked Up and Out: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth in Louisiana's Juvenile Justice System, Wesley Ware, Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana
Tags: Louisiana | LGBTQ Youth | Reports
Report addressing how LGBT youth are funneled into the deep end of the juvenile justice system, the particular challenges that they face once there, and the lack of resources available specific to their needs. Report also addresses policy, administrative, and programming solutions that Louisiana can employ in order to ensure a safe environment for all youth in the state's care, and in particular those that are the most vulnerable. Finally, report proposes that advocates for racial justice, juvenile justice, and LGBT rights come together more effectively and collaboratively in the future, to ensure justice and equitable treatment for all of Louisiana's youth.
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Hidden Injustice: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth in Juvenile court
Tags: National | LGBTQ Youth | Reports
The Equity Project examines issues that impact LGBT youth throughout the duration of the juvenile court process, ranging from arrest through post-disposition. The goals of the Equity Project are to (1) Understand the needs, strengths, and experiences of LGBT youth involved in thejuvenile justice system; (2) Identify obstacles to the equitable treatment of LGBT youth in the juvenile justice system;(3) Recommend concrete strategies for promoting the equitable treatment of LGBT youth in the juvenile justice system; and (4) Educate juvenile justice system professionals through dissemination of policy andpractice recommendations and tools.
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Hidden Injustice: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth in Juvenile Courts, K. Majd, National Juvenile Defender Center; J. Marksamer, National Center for Lesbian Rights; C. Reyes, Legal Services for Children
Tags: LGBTQ Youth | Reports
The first comprehensive report to examine the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth in juvenile courts nationwide.
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New York Office of Children and Family Services Policy and Guidelines to Better Serve LGBTQ Youth
Tags: New York | LGBTQ Youth | Administrative/Regulatory Policies
Policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Policy on Handling Interactions with Transgender Individuals, GO-PCA-501.02
Tags: District of Columbia | LGBTQ Youth | Administrative/Regulatory Policies
An order from the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department calling for respect and awareness of gender identification and expression.
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New York City Anti-Discrimination Policy for LGBTQ Youth, New York City Department of Juvenile Justice
Tags: New York | LGBTQ Youth | Administrative/Regulatory Policies
Department of Juvenile Justice anti-discrimination policy for LGBTQ youth in the system.
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Teleconference on Three Paths to Reform, Jody Marksamer, Tamara Lange, and Mishi Faruqee
Tags: Hawaii | New York | LGBTQ Youth | Reports
Jody Marksamer from the National Center on Lesbian Rights, Tamara Lange from the ACLU, and Mishi Faruqee from the Juvenile Justice Project of New York, talk about best practice standards for the care LGBT youth in institutions, successful recent litigation in Hawaii, and model legislation in New York, respectively.
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Common LGBT Terms, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Tags: LGBTQ Youth | Reports
Glossary of LGBT terms.
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Legal Rights of LGBTQ Youth in the Juvenile Justice System, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Tags: LGBTQ Youth | Reports
Paper discussing civil rights of all those in the juvenile justice system and examining how these rights apply to LGBT youth.
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LGBTQ Youth in the Juvenile Justice System, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Tags: LGBTQ Youth | Reports
Paper discussing civil rights of all those in the juvenile justice system and examining how these rights apply to LGBT youth.
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Best Practice Guidelines for LGBT Youth in Out of Home Care, Child Welfare League of America
Tags: LGBTQ Youth | Reports
Guidelines on how to appropriately treat and care for LGBT youth in out of home care, including juvenile institutions.
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Creating Inclusive Systems for LGBT Youth in Out-of-Home Care, Shannan Wilber, Carolyn Reyes, and Jody Marksamer, The Model Standards Project
Tags: LGBTQ Youth | Reports
Paper describing the Model Standards Project, which was developed in response to numerous calls that staff members had received from across the country relating the experiences of LGBT youth in foster care and juvenile justice settings, and requesting guidance about appropriate responses. The goal of the MSP is to develop a practice tool to highlight the needs of LGBT youth in out-of-home care and to improve services and outcomes. Paper sets forth the following recommendations for LGBTQ youth in the system: (1) creating an inclusive organizational culture, (2) recruiting and supporting competent caregivers and staff, (3) respecting privacy and confidentiality, (4) providing appropriate placements, and (5) providing sensitive support services.
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New York Combats Discrimination and Harassment of Youth, New York, A. 6502
Tags: New York | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | Institutional Conditions | LGBTQ Youth | Legislation
Prohibits discrimination and harassment against youth by employees in a facility; directs the Office of Child and Family Services to create policies and guidelines to be used in facility training curricula to create an environment free from harassment and discrimination; outlines the responsibilities of the Commissioner to develop model anti-discrimination policies and to create a procedure for reporting incidents of discrimination and harassment; and, provides for the protection of people who report discrimination or harassment.
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Defending LGBTQ Youth, The Model Standards Project
Tags: Juvenile Defense and Court Process | LGBTQ Youth | Reports
Brief describing the importance of recognizing if a juvenile offender is LGBTQ and the way their sexual orientation may impact their experiences in the juvenile justice system.
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Safety First! A Survival Guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth Under 18, Legal Services for Children
Tags: LGBTQ Youth | Reports
Basic guide for understanding and dealing with LBGTQ youth.
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Justice For All?, Urban Justice Center
Tags: New York | LGBTQ Youth | Reports
Report chronicling the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) youth in the New York juvenile justice system. Report combines existing social science research and personal interviews with juvenile justice professionals and LGBT youth and reveals that the system is plagued by discrimination and bias against LGBT youth.