Tag Archives: mental health

Supporting Our LGBT Loved Ones

Last month the Family Acceptance Project (FAP) won a “best practice” award from the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for its educational booklet, “Supportive Families, Healthy Children: Helping Families with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Children,” available at http://familyproject.sfsu.edu/files/English_Final_Print_Version_Last.pdf. Continue reading

New Article Addresses LGBT Older Adults’ Mental Health

A reporter from the Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalist has just published an article on older LGBTs and mental health.

The report focuses on Chicago and highlights the Center on Halsted’s SAGE program, the Valeo unit for LGBT patients at Chicago Lakeshore Hospital (a psychiatric facility), and Chicago Prime Timers.  It’s available at http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=184738