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Hotlines for LGBTQ+ Community

Gay and Lesbian Victim’s Assistance

1-800-259-1536

Hotline is available 24/7

Northwest Network

206-568-7777

LGBTQ+ domestic abuse/ interpersonal violence hotline and support in Seattle

Foster Care Helpline

1-866-542-8336

for LGBTQ+ youth specifically

Safe Place

360-754-6300

Resources for sexual abuse

The Trevor Project

1-866-488-7386 or 678678

Call 1-866-488-7386 or text START to 678678. A national 24-hour, toll free confidential suicide hotline for LGBTQ youth

Trans Lifeline

877-565-8860

Dial 877-565-8860. Trans Lifeline’s Hotline is a peer support service run by trans people, for trans and questioning callers.

LGBTQ+ Resources

What Foster Parents Need To Know About Adopting and Affirming a Queer Child

The key is and will continue to be for foster parents to listen, learn, and practice empathy for kids in the LGBTQ+ community.

Working With LGBTQ+ Youth and Families

Adolescence is marked by rapid physical development and emotional changes while youth work to develop autonomy and a sense of identity. This period is further complicated by child welfare involvement, which is often associated with changes in social support and placement.

Affirming and Supporting LGBTQ Children and Youth in Child Welfare

Capacity Building Center for States is sharing statistics regarding LBTQ+ youth as well as harful practices and healthy ways to approach working with LGBTQ+ youth.

The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth ages 13–24. Its website has information about the signs of suicide and a way to connect online with other LGBTQ youth.

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Oasis Youth

Oasis Youth supports youth, delivers essential resources, advocates, and promotes cultural diversity and positive identity to the lives of queer and questioning youth 11-24 throughout Pierce County.

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Pizza Klatch

Support group for LGBTQ+ youth and their allies held in classrooms at participating high schools. Creating check-ins in a safe space for teens to share and be heard about their experiences.

Gender Alliance of the South Sound

Located in Tacoma, WA. Supports LGBTQ+ community 18 and up. Offers groups for educational based, support, social, and activities. Provides advocacy to assist free form discrimination. Provides supply kit for free. Offers testing center. HRT supplies, transportation to appointments, therapy or other gender confirming appointments, school, and prosthetics. Financial assistance for legal name changes in WA.

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Stonewall Youth

Located in Olympia, WA. Online options. Youth, ages 21 and under. Provides therapy, gatherings, activities. Offer peer support for substance abuse, school issues, experience with abuse, finical support, etc. provide youth with food, bus passes, gender-affirming items, clothes. Offers workshops such as self-defense, safer sex, queer history, street survival skills, job searching, etc.

imi, a New Free Online Resource for LGBTQ+ Youth

Guides built for and with LGBTQ+ teens to help explore their identity and support their mental health. imi is a free, digital, science-backed mental health tool for queer teens. Learn coping skills, hear stories from real LGBTQ+ teens, and explore resources that will affirm queer identities and boost mental health.

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Center of Excellence: LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity

The Center of Excellence has an amazing amount of resources available to those working with LGBTQ+ Youth. From Learning about Sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, all the way to Eating disorders in LGBTQ+ Youth and Black LGBTQ+ Mental Health

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Creating Safer and More Affirming Systems of Care for LGBTQ+ Youth

This training is focused on LGBTQ+ concepts and fundamental for providers serving LGBTQ+ youth in systems of care (foster care, juvenile justice, and housing services). Participants will learn terminology, policies, and emerging best practices when working with LGBTQ+ Youth.

What Foster Parents Need To Know About Adopting and Affirming a Queer Child

Parents.com published this article for Foster Parents to utilize. The key is and will continue to be for foster parents to listen, learn, and practice empathy for kids in the LGBTQ+ community.

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Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth: A Guide for Foster Parents

Child Welfare Information Gateways' Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth: A Guide to Foster Parents offers several tips on creating an affirming home for youth.

Rainbow Center

Located in Tacoma, WA. Provides health space for those marginalized identity. Provides advocacy, safe, confidential space for youth. Provides youth with workshops and trainings.

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Children’s Books to Support LGBTQIA+ Children and Families

Alliance CaREs shared this list of books This list is full of books to help children learn about identity, sexuality, and even about LGBTQ+ Families!

Coming Out Handbook

The Trevor Project’s Coming Out: A Handbook for LGBTQ Young People is here to help you navigate questions around your identity. You know yourself and what works for you better than anyone else. Each of us has the right to share or not share different aspects of ourselves with others.