Resources
Out, Safe & Respected
Out, Safe and Respected
Lambda Legal offers a variety of resources for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth and their allies to take action in their homes and schools.
Out, Safe and Respected Tool Kit
The Out, Safe & Respected tool kit provides information on negotiating with school boards and administrators, as well as working with students to organize groups addressing diversity and LGBTQ student needs. It also outlines the legal protections already in place for LGBTQ students and gives them tools they can use to make their schools more LGBT-friendly.
| Download the PDF of Out, Safe and Respected: Know Your Rights at School in English or Spanish. |
Bending the Mold Action Kit
Bending the Mold: An Action Kit for Transgender Youth offers insightful and creative ways to combat discrimination and violence towards gender non-conforming people, including tools and information to help you advocate for change.
| Download the PDF of the Bending the Mold action kit in English. (Spanish translation coming soon!) |
Foster Care Project
Lambda Legal's Foster Care Project works in partnership with the Child Welfare League of America and other child welfare experts, foster care organizations, children's rights advocates, and HIV prevention specialists to develop model reform policies that will address sexual orientation bias in foster care.
Other Resources
| Prom Season: What LGBTQ Youth Need to Know | HTML | |
| Facts: Gay and Lesbian Youth in Schools | HMTL | |
| Differences Between Real Sex Education & Abstinence-Only Programs | HTML | |
| Tell Me The (Whole) Truth — School Supplies to Get Real Sex Education | HTML | |
| A Guide to Effective Statewide Laws/Policies: Preventing Discrimination Against LGBT Students in K–12 Schools — A joint publication from Lambda Legal and GLSEN | HTML | |
| Youth in the Margins — A Report on the Unmet Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Adolescents in Foster Care. Also includes a Survey of Fourteen States and Proposals for Reform | ||
| Stopping the Antigay Abuse of Students in Public Schools: A Legal Perspective | HTML |



