3rd Annual Summit on School Climate and Culture

The causes of youth homelessness are varied. Many young people experience homelessness due to lack of affordable and accessible housing, poverty, neglect, substance abuse, mental health issues, and physical and sexual abuse. Others become homeless due to severe family conflict that grows out of lack of support around sexual orientation and gender expression and identity.
Communities have to find creative solutions to LGBTQ youth homelessness.
Ryan Berg will begin the presentation with a reading from No House to Call My Home: Love, Family and Other Transgressions and end with a discussion about how teachers, social workers and communities across the state can best support LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness.