The National LGBTQ Task Force ( Task Force ) and the True Colors Fund, on April 26, announced the release of, At the Intersections, an extensive online report on LGBT Youths who are experiencing homelessness.
In the decade since the last report, according to Meghan Maury, senior policy counsel and Criminal and Economic Justice project director of the Task Force, "the perspectives around how to advocate have changed quite a lot, and so has our language, and what we consider to be best practices."
The core of the new report, Maury added, "is centering the voices of the young folks who experience homeless and looking at the issues through their eyes."
Jama Shelton, deputy executive director of the True Colors Fund, said that the collaborators were "no longer focused solely on a crisis responsewe're aware now that we need to do more than provide shelter beds for young people if we want them to succeed and thrive as adults."
Christa Price, program officer for True Colors, added that the document would be updated online periodically as new information became available. "We wanted to keep that collaborative spirit we had when we started the experience," Price said.
The report can be read at AtTheIntersections.org .