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Learn more about the issues facing LGBTQ youth and what you can do to help by reading the publications and factsheets below.
2006 Annual Report 
Learn more about our many successes in 2006, including holding our first ever Young Women's Leadership Retreat, collaborating with partner organizations for "Confronting the Crisis," a community forum focusing on LGBT youth needs, and providing direct services to more than 350 youth in our daily after-school Youth Center!
Confronting the Crisis
In September 2005, SMYAL facilitated two focus groups, one with
SMYAL youth and one with SMYAL staff, to discuss the challenges
LGBTQ young people in D.C. face in their daily lives. From these
discussions, SMYAL staff identified major areas of need, discussed
possible solutions and strategies, and determined concrete actions
to address these issues. Learn more about how to make D.C. safe
for all its youth in SMYAL's April 2006 publication.
News to SMYAL About
Read about what's new at SMYAL! Our newsletter, News to SMYAL About, reports on new programs, youth success stories, recent contributions, partnerships, and community events.
2005 SMYAL Annual Report
SMYAL had many accomplishments in 2005, including piloting "Brotherhood University," holding a Substance-Free Luau, and receiving its first ever grant for dedicated Youth Center funds.
Throughout the year, we served more than 450 LGBTQ youth. Read more in our Annual Report!
SMYAL Literature Review: Risk Factors for LGBTQ Youth
Recent studies show that LGBTQ youth are more likely than their heterosexual peers to be at risk for many negative health factors, including substance abuse, homelessness, HIV and other STD infection, physical and verbal abuse, and suicide. Read more in our literature review.
50 Under 30: Masculinity and the War on America's Youth
SMYAL is proud to support GenderPAC in their campaign to raise awareness of a pattern of gender-based violence against young people. Learn more by reading the full press release here.
Get the Facts about Dating Violence and Queer Youth
Read this Break the Cycle fact sheet about
dating violence and LGBTQ young people and learn more about this all too often overlooked problem.
For more information about SMYAL publications, please contact:
Andrew Barnett
Operations and Communications Manager
202-546-5940 x110
andrew.barnett@smyal.org
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