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Policy Guidance Document

  • document preview of LGBTQ Youth and Status Offenses: Improving System Responses and Reducing Disproportionality

    LGBTQ Youth and Status Offenses: Improving System Responses and Reducing Disproportionality

    The application of the “National Standards for the Care of Youth Charged with Status Offenses” (NIC accession no. 027712) is stressed. “The National Standards specifically call for all (LGBTQ) [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual. Transgender, and Questioning] youth to “receive fair treatment, equal access to services, and respect and sensitivity from all professionals and other youth in court, agency, service, school and placement’” (p. 1).