Homelessness linked to poor mental health among LGBTQ youth, report finds (NBC)

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Homelessness linked to poor mental health among LGBTQ youth, report finds

More than 1 in 4 LGBTQ youth have experienced homelessness or housing instability at some point in their lives, a new report from The Trevor Project shows, including nearly half of Native/Indigenous LGBTQ youth and nearly 40 percent of transgender and nonbinary youth.

Thirty-five percent of LGBTQ youth who are homeless and 28 percent who have experienced housing instability also reported a suicide attempt in the last year, compared to 10 percent of LGBTQ youth who are not housing insecure. Homeless LGBTQ youth are also two to four times more likely to report depression, anxiety, self-harm, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.

These findings, said Jonah DeChants, one of the authors of the study and a research scientist for The Trevor Project — an LGBTQ youth crisis intervention and suicide prevention organization — “paint a pretty serious picture about the need to provide better mental health services for folks who are experiencing housing instability.”

It came as no surprise to the researchers that LGBTQ youth of color and trans and nonbinary youth are disproportionately affected by homelessness and mental health issues.

“When you start adding homophobia, plus racism or transphobia, plus anti-Indigenous racism,” DeChants said, “then we again start to see that young people who are experiencing multiple forms of marginalization and oppression — those are the folks who tend to be pushed out of housing supports and experiencing homelessness.”

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1. Not just in youth, either

Disenfranchised and disowned in youth, making up for a poor start in adulthood, taking advantage of every sort of support available to get through college, now even at 62 and an above average income largely ripped off by uncaring corporations who only provide reliable products to "preferred" customers. Two automotive companies stole thousands from me knowing they sold me lemons but lawyered their way out of honest responsibilities. Dodge and Volkswagen are 2 companies who have absolutely no integrity in my book and they know it, never answering my complaints nor caring about any customer without millions of dollars.
Had they been honest, I'd perhaps have a decent home by now rather than ending up upside down for decades.
That said, my GM's have never let me down and when a warranty problem happened...
THEY FIXED IT! Amazing.
That's just two examples of rich bastards tromping on the poor, all while attempting to further destroy the hope of others who slept under freeway bridges to survive right here in the "land of milk and honey".

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2. +1 !!!!! n/t