Youth in the Margins: A Report on the Unmet Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Adolescents in Foster Care

Lambda Legal

Keywords: Best Practices; Child Welfare; Out of Home Care; Policy; Research

This 2001 report by Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund urges foster care systems and agencies to take crucial remedial steps to serve their LGBT clients. Part I of this Report provides a background discussion of the unaddressed problems of LGBT youth in out-of-home care. Part II prescribes vital, basic measures for reform that should be adopted by child welfare systems nationwide. Finally, Part III publishes state-by-state findings and recommendations based on a survey of LGBT-related foster care policies and services in fourteen states. [Summary adapted from resource.]

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