Resources & Tools
Creating Safer Spaces for LGBTQ Youth
This Toolkit highlights challenges faced by LGBTQ youth, offers insight on how they thrive, and enhances the awareness among healthcare staff, educators, and additional youth-serving professionals about the existing disparities in order to provide safer spaces.
PrEP and Young People
PrEP stands for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis. It is an HIV prevention method in which young people that are not living with HIV take medicine on a daily basis to reduce their potential exposure to HIV.
National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day One-Pager
National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD), annually on April 10th is a day to educate the public about the impact of HIV and AIDS on young people.
HIV and Young People: One Pager
HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. It is the virus that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), if not treated. HIV attacks the body’s immune system, specifically CD4 cells (aka T cells), which help the immune system fight off infections.
Explainer: Puberty Blocker Bills
Bills which prohibit gender affirming medications to minors are not based in concern for child welfare, but rather in fearmongering and transphobia.
Abortion and Parental Involvement Laws
The majority of states – thirty-six as of June 2019 – currently enforce laws that require a young person to notify or obtain consent from one or both parents before they can receive abortion care.
Section 1557: Protecting the Health of Trans Youth
Also known as the Health Care Rights Law, Section 1557 is a part of the Affordable Care Act that protects people, including LGBTQ youth, from discrimination.
Youth Activist Toolkit
The new Youth Activist Toolkit was developed with youth writers and activists to be a detailed guide to help young people develop a plan, organize a coalition, and define and implement strategies to achieve measurable social impact goals.
Arabic – I’m Muslim and I Might Not Be Straight
Questioning your sexuality can be difficult to navigate as a young Muslim. This resource is for young Muslims who want support around their various complicated identities, from religion to sexual orientation and gender identity.
I Think I Might Be Asexual
Written by asexual youth, this pamphlet provides answers for young people questioning their sexual orientation.