LGBTQ Youth Crisis In Child Welfare System
therainbowtimesmass.comGLAD issues Statement on the Crisis Facing LGBTQ Youth in the Mass. Child Welfare SystemGLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) Senior Staff Attorney Polly Crozier issued the following statement in response to a report released today by the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth on the crisis conditions facing LGBTQ youth in the MA child welfare system.The findings in the report, “LGBTQ Youth in the Massachusetts Child Welfare System: A Report on Pervasive Threats to Safety, Wellbeing, and Permanency,” are alarming, but not surprising.The report, drawn from national research, years of reports to the Commission from LGBTQ youth, providers, caregivers, and advocates, as well as interviews with young people and foster parents impacted by the.
