Rainbow Alliance for Youth of Wisconsin
RAY member groups share perspectives of several key aspects of the work of developing LGBTQ youth in communities. First, they use an LGBTQ Youth Development Model. This model incorporates several innovative concepts and strategies as applied to an LGBTQ youth population. It holds that LGBTQ youth develop through planned and unplanned means and are subject to socially-induced stressors that increase risk and challenge resiliency. It further proposes that youth are a community asset, so community failures in addressing the needs of LGBTQ youth constitute both a personal crisis for the youth and families involved, and a public cost of lost potential and the consequences of risk behaviors.
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RAY Groups in Milwaukee:
Milwaukee – Pathfinders
4200 N Holton St.
Suite 400
Milwaukee, WI 53212
Contact: Susannah Bartlow
Phone: (414) 988-6893
Email: sbartlow@pathfindersmke.org
Milwaukee – Project Q
Milwaukee LGBT Community Center
1110 N Market St.
2nd Floor (Courtyard Entrance)
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Website: www.mkelgbt.org/youth
Contact: Charles Smart
Phone: (414) 292-3066
Fax: (414) 271-2161
Email: csmart@mkelgbt.org