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Title: LGBT mentoring lost without leader
Post by: LostInTime on February 08, 2007, 08:53:58 AM
Post by: LostInTime on February 08, 2007, 08:53:58 AM
Link (http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2007/feb/08/lgbt_mentoring_lost_without_leader/)
The program was created so that mentees could receive support and advice from their mentors to assist in the development of a positive LGBT identity and "feel comfortable in their own skin," Alford-Keating said.
She said the program was also created to decrease fear and negative stigma associated with the LGBT community and to counsel people through their coming-out processes.
"Coming out is a very isolated process for many people," she said. "Most people suffer in silence and are very depressed and anxious about it."
Alford-Keating said she requested that the program continue after she left and does not understand why the mentoring program stopped since the need for it has not disappeared.
The program was created so that mentees could receive support and advice from their mentors to assist in the development of a positive LGBT identity and "feel comfortable in their own skin," Alford-Keating said.
She said the program was also created to decrease fear and negative stigma associated with the LGBT community and to counsel people through their coming-out processes.
"Coming out is a very isolated process for many people," she said. "Most people suffer in silence and are very depressed and anxious about it."
Alford-Keating said she requested that the program continue after she left and does not understand why the mentoring program stopped since the need for it has not disappeared.