Why Does a Major Report on Homeless Youth Ignore LGBT Youth?

[Shana A]

Why Does a Major Report on Homeless Youth Ignore LGBT Youth?
by Dana Rudolph January 03, 2011 07:21 PM

http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/why_does_a_major_report_on_homeless_youth_ignore_lgbt_youth

The evidence is compelling: LGBT youth make up a disproportionately large percentage of our nation's homeless youth, as Change.org and others have reported. Why then did a new, national report on homeless youth from Covenant House, which says it is "the largest provider of services to homeless and at-risk youth in the Americas," ignore LGBT youth?

The Covenant House report, "A National Picture of Youth Homelessness," is based on information about more than a thousand youth who entered Covenant House facilities in various locations around the country between mid-2007 and mid-2009. The data was collected through lengthy psychosocial assessments that asked about "demographics, circumstances of admission, family history, current family and social supports, education and employment history, current income sources, health and mental health history, and legal issues." The demographics, included age, gender, and ethnicity.

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