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Enthusiastic youth leaders and committed adult supervisors - how can they work together? This webinar will explore ways to maximize youth participation by strengthening youth-adult partnerships. This webinar will offer best practice examples and principles that should be in place to encourage a strong and productive working relationship. This session will also explore the importance of mentorship and offer ways to establish effective mentors.

Slides from webinar presented on July 8, 2009.

National Youth HIV Testing Initiative
You Know Different
Evaluation Summary of
2006 Social Marketing Pilot

National Youth HIV Testing Initiative
You Know Different
Evaluation Summary of
2005 Social Marketing Pilot

This page serves as a resource page for a workshop presented at the National Creating Change Conference 2010 in Dallas, Texas.

Workshop Description -

This discussion-based workshop will address the conflicts and barriers created by the "down-er than thou" mentality that often leads to feelings of exclusion and grudges in social justice organizing. Speaking specifically to youth and student organizers, this session will discuss and then outline strategies to build communities of strong organizers instead of alienating one another with destructive judeents. In an effort to create sustainable activism, we will develop real methods for confronting the effects of judgmental conlict.

With a cooperative agreement with the CDC, NYAC will be creating an HIV prevention social marketing campaign geared towards Latino LGBTQ youth across the country. In order to design a culturally competent and effective program, NYAC will be guided by a series of focus groups and talking circles with youth, youth-service providers, and HIV prevention specialists within the Latino LGBTQ communities.  Join NYAC to evaluate imagery, messaging, and social marketing techniques that are most appropriate for this community. This webinar will be highly interactive and will provide an opportunity to network and share ideas with other Latino LGBTQ HIV prevention specialists across the nation.

Recording of webinar originally presented on December 8, 2009.

[the report] highlights [LGBT student's] struggle as well as that of GLBT school employees and offers concrete steps schools can take to improve their educational experience. It is NEA's first publication that combines research on GLBT issues and outlines program work by the Association to better the lives of students and its members.

 Come to this webinar to learn more about the unique ways that eating disorders affect LGBTQ youth, current research, and learn program ideas to implement in addressing this issue. This webinar will be guest hosted by the National Eating Disorder Association and will be a great first step in becoming involved in the National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, February 21 – 27, 2010. Visit NEDA Awareness Week to find out more. 

Come to this webinar to learn more about the unique ways that eating disorders affect LGBTQ youth, current research, and learn program ideas to implement in addressing this issue. This webinar will be guest hosted by the National Eating Disorder Association and will be a great first step in becoming involved in the National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, February 21 – 27, 2010. Visit NEDA Awareness Week to find out more. 

Recording of webinar originally presented on January 12, 2010.

This brief offers an overview of research indicating that each year hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ youth will experience homelessness.

Dated: April 2009

Dated: April 2009

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs releases Annual Report on LGBT Domestic Violence: Domestic Violence declines in 2007 but may be spiking in 2008 as the economy worsens. The 50-page report, released annually by NCAVP, examines data compiled from thousands of LGBT people who experienced intimate partner violence during the year 2007.

The Safe Schools Improvement Act addresses GLSENs federal policy recommendations (outlined in the publication Bridging the Gap in Federal Law). Members of the National Safe Schools Partnership have signed on to these recommendations to promote school safety and improve student achievement for all students, through legislation that will comprehensively address the issues of bullying and harassment.

Oftentimes, our HIV prevention and testing programs can become solely focused on HIV/AIDS without much attention or resources allotted to STD prevention. This webinar will assist you in learning ways to incorporate STD awareness and testing into your HIV prevention programming. The Washington, DC Department of Health will be guest hosting this webinar to provide a look at STDs prevention, facts, and program ideas that will be beneficial for all HIV youth service providers. 

Slides from webinar presented on January 22, 2009.

Further Citations and Resources -

To find an interactive activity to teach people about how STI's increase the risk of HIV infection, please visit the CDC website here.

To learn about STI infection, rates, and resources in your area, please visit the CDC website here.

For questions and answers about STI's and STD's, use Goaskalice.com.

To access, inSPOT, to get resources on STI's and internet technologies, click here.

• I.S.I.S., Inc.is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to developing and using Internet technologies to prevent disease transmission and enhance the sexual well-being of individuals and communities. Our mission is to provide leadership, innovation, educational resources and research in online sexual health promotion.

To check out what the STICC of Metro DC is doing, click here.

• Formed in 1982, the Sexually Transmitted Infections Community Coalition (STICC of Metropolitan Washington, DC) is a partnership of over thirty public and private stakeholders in the metropolitan area who have a common interest to reduce the impact of sexually transmitted infections (STIs)*, including HIV, in the community.

Visit the American Social Health Association, here.

• The American Social Health Association is a trusted, non-profit organization that has advocated on behalf of patients to help improve public health outcomes since 1914. We are America's authority for sexually transmitted infection information.

Find out more about RealTalkDC, a best practice and model for incorporating social media and text messaging into your HIV and STI prevention campaigns - click here.

Please visit Advocates for Youth for more indepth information and resources on sexual health and education for young LGBTQ people. Click here to visit.

Safe spaces lead to safe choices. This webinar focuses on creating safe places for queer youth within your organization and on the community level. This session also explores space zone best practices for transgender and non-gender conforming youth. If your organization is trying to outreach to the young LGBTQ community, this webinar is for you.

Slides from webinar presented on January 22, 2009.

Safe spaces lead to safe choices. This webinar focuses on creating safe places for queer youth within your organization and on the community level. This session will also explore space zone best practices for transgender and non-gender conforming youth. If your organization is trying to outreach to the young LGBTQ community, this webinar is for you.

Recording of webinar originally presented on January 22, 2009.

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) has published "Bullying in Schools. Part of COPS' Problem- Specific Guide Series , the guide provides police with information about the causes and extent of bullying in schools and includes recommendations for developing practices and policies that promote student safety. 

The National Safe Schools Partnership's recommendations to bridge the gap in federal law to promote school safety and improve student achievement for all students.

These recommendations are broken down into three sections. The first section includes steps intake workers, case managers, social workers, youth supervisors, and others who have regular, direct contact with youth should take to improve the experiences of LGBT youth accessing services. The second section includes steps administrators should take to improve agency-wide culture and effectiveness in serving LGBT youth. The final section includes specific steps both administrators and youth workers should take to improve the experiences of youth in residential settings, whether these settings are emergency shelters or longer term transitional living.

Dated: April 2009

This updated version of the original Bending the Mold publication is an action kit for transgender students.  Contents include:

• How does your school measure up??
• How to be a transgender ally
• Your social change toolkit
• Preventing violence and bullying
• Securing freedom of gender expression
• Promoting transgender-inclusive policies
• Building community and fighting invisibility
• Protecting confidentiality
• Making bathrooms and locker rooms accessible
• Fighting for equality in sports teams
• Accessing health care
• Resources
• And an appendix with a Sample Model School Policy 

Co-produced by NYAC and Lambda Legal

An Action Kit for Trans Youth

Co-produced by Lambda Legal and NYAC

The final summary report from the NYAC 2008 Best Practices Summit. The summit brought together youth leaders from around the country to share best practices in HIV prevention and services.