Anyone who provides services to youth has an obligation to promote the health and well-being of GLBTQ young people. These youth need and deserve help to survive in the face of family rejection and school harassment, against heightened HIV, STI, suicide, and violence rates, against racial, cultural and socio-economic prejudice. More, they can and should thrive as contributing members of their communities. But, GLBTQ youth need support in order to succeed.  Read on to learn more.Creating Safe Space for GLBTQ Youth: A Toolkit —Lesson plans, tips and strategies, background information, and additional resources to help youth-serving professionals create safe space for young people of all sexual orientations and gender identities

Lesson Plans

• Addressing Discrimination
• Circles of Human Sexuality
• How to Be a Super Activist and/or Ally
• Hunting for Diversity
• Introduction to Gender Identity and Gender Expression
• Introduction to Sexual Orientation
• What Can I Do to Create Safe Space
  

Tools and Strategies

• Adolescent Sexual Health and the Dynamics of Oppression: A Call for Cultural Competency
• Cyber Cafés, A How-to Manual: Including Designing a Web Site and Implementing an Online Peer Education Program (pdf)
• Los Cibercafés, Un Manual de Procedimientos: Incluye cómo diseñar un sitio Web e implementar un Programa en Línea de Educadores Pares (pdf)
• Cyber Cafés, Um Manual de Instruções: Inclui Informações Sobre a Criação de um Website e Implementação de um Programa On-line de Conselhería Par (pdf)
• Cyber Cafés - Improving Access to Information for Youth in High Risk Situations
• Respecting the Rights of GLBTQ Youth, A Responsibility of Youth-Serving Professionals 
• Tips and Strategies for Addressing the Challenges that Face Transgender Youth 
• Tips and Strategies for Addressing Harassment
• Tips and Strategies for Assessing Youth Programs and Agencies
• Tips and Strategies for Creating Inclusive Programs
• Tips and Strategies for Creating a Safe Space for GLBTQ Youth: Recommendations from the Safe Space Resource Circle
• Tips and Strategies for Meeting the Needs of GLBTQ Youth of Color
• Tips and Strategies for Meeting the Needs of Transgender Youth
• Tips and Strategies for Taking Steps to Cultural Fairness
• A Youth Leader's Guide to Building Cultural Competence