Resources
Fourth Street Clinic helps homeless Utahns improve their health and quality of life by providing health care and support services.
With consistent health care, our patients live longer and healthier lives and often find the hope necessary to break the homeless cycle.
The Homeless Youth Resource Center delivers a continuum of services to homeless street youth through three components, a Street Outreach Program, a daytime Drop-In Center and Transition Home.
The mission of the Utah Pride Center is to be a catalyst for personal growth, acceptance and equality for GLBT people in Utah. The Utah Pride Center is affiliated with Open Door Documentaries. The Utah Pride Center has a youth activity center, TINT, that provides a safe place for LGBTQ youth ages 14 -20 to hang out with other youth. The Center also provides support groups for youth and their loved ones including a transgender youth group, a group for parents of transgender youth, a 10 week workshop to help youth with the initial coming out process, and on going psycho-educational and skill building activities. The Utah Pride Center also offers support and resources to professionals working in youth-centered environments.
Address: 355 North 300 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84103
Phone: 801- 801.539.8800 ext. 14
Email: rachel@utahpridecenter.org
Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons serves the needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender LDS and their supportive family and friends through social and educational activities.
Children of Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (COLAGE) is a group run by and for young people 18 and younger who have LGBT parents. This group provides social avenues to meet other youth, socialize and get support. COLAGE is an affiliate of the Utah Pride Center and meets the second Friday of every month at 7:00 pm.
Address: 355 North 300 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84103
Phone: 801- 801.539.8800 ext. 14
Email: rachel@utahpridecenter.org
Family Fellowship is a volunteer service organization with a diverse collection of Mormon families engaged in the cause of strengthening families with homosexual members.
Phone: (801) 374-1447
Email: wattsfam@aol.com
LGBTQ Affirmative Psychotherapist Guild of Utah provides affirmative therapy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning individuals based on the premise that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning (LGBTQ) and heterosexual identities are equally valid. An LGBTQ-affirmative counselor has particular knowledge, awareness (specifically self-awareness), and skills specific to competent counseling for LGBTQ individuals.
Name: Jim Struve
Email: jimstruve@mac.com
OUTreach - Ogden's LGBTQ Drop-In Center The OUTreach drop-in center is open for teens in the Weber, Davis and Box Elder counties, who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or just have questions about gender and sexuality.
Address: 705 23rd Street, Ogden, UT 84401
Phone: 801-686-4528
Email: outreachogd@yahoo.com
Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) A great resource for caregivers of LGBTQ youth.
Address: 2779 Hampton Park Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84119
Phone 801.975.0735
801.244.6423
Email: president@pflagslc.org
Volunteers of America, Homeless Youth Resource Center serves homeless street youth ages 16-21. The Homeless Youth Resource Center seeks to engage homeless youth, develop trust through the provision of basic needs, and help them begin the process of moving off the streets and into self-sufficiency.
Address: 655 South State Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Phone: 801-364-0744.
Hotlines
Gay and Lesbian National Hotline
1-888-THE-GLNH
Peer Listening Line for LGBT Youth
1-800-399-PEER
AIDS Hotline For Teens
1-800-234-TEEN
The Trevor Project: 24-hour suicide hotline for LGBT youth.
1-800-866-4-U-TREVOR
National Runaway Switchboard:
1-800-621-4000
Additional Resources
Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) is the largest national organization that brings together teachers, parents, students, and concerned citizens to work together to end homophobia in our schools.
Gay-Straight Alliance Network is a youth-led organization that connects school-based Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) to each other and community resources.
Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC) works to end discrimination and violence caused by gender stereotypes by changing public attitudes, educating elected officials and expanding human rights.
National Youth Advocacy Coalition is dedicated to improving the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth.
