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Areas of Work: Youth

  • Tus Derechos al Cuidado de Salud: Juventud
    La Juventud Trans en la ciudad de Nueva York

  • OCFS announced a change in policy protecting LGBTQ youth in City wide OCFS facilities.


  • Trans Youth and the Prison Industrial Complex
    Youth, and trans and gender non-conforming youth even more so, are particularly vulnerable. This chart, Transgender Youth and the Prison Industrial Complex: Disrupt The Flow, from FIERCE and the Prison Moratorium Project, illustrates some of these mechanisms.

  • Your Healthcare Rights: Youth
    Healthcare Rights of Trans Youth in New York City In this brochure: • Right to Emergency Medical Care • Transgender Healthcare Discrimination • HIV Healthcare Discrimination • Rights of Youth to Consent to Healthcare • Commitment and Involuntary Mental Health Treatment • The Right to Adequate Care

  • Landmark Fostercare Case: Jean Doe vs. Bell

    In January 2003, SRLP, working with the Peter Cicchino Youth Project of the Urban Justice Center and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, helped achieve a groundbreaking victory for transgender youth in foster care in the Jean Doe v. Bell case.