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.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth appear to be at higher risk for certain adverse health outcomes, and to have several personal, cultural and structural barriers to accessing healthcare. Little is known, however, about the experiences of LGBTQ youth with healthcare providers and healthcare services. Our goal was to recruit a sample of LGBTQ youth and to determine their preferences regarding healthcare providers, healthcare settings and the health issues that they consider important to discuss with a healthcare provider.

A Movement, Not A Market is a tobacco and alcohol preention resource for the LGBTQI community. It is a FREE multimedia educational resource on media literacy, the portrayal of the LGBTQI community in media, and the targeting of the LGBTQI community with tobacco and alcohol products.

This DVD-ROM can help improve the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce media messages, and to become an active participant in our media culture. This resource contains 52 media examples (from TV shows, films, magazines, and counter-marketing campaigns), a printable discussion guide, and handouts.

A Movement, Not A Market can be used in classrooms, community groups, and other group settings to:

• understand media literacy in the context of alcohol and tobacco prevention.
• gain more awareness regarding the marketing of tobacco and alcohol products to the LGBTQI community.
• explore portrayals of the LGBTQI community in the media.

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 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

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