Mandating child welfare agencies to place LGBTQ+ youth in supportive homes represents a crucial stride towards ensuring their safety and well-being," said Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, executive director of GLSEN.
One-third of all youth in foster care identify as LGBTQ+, and they experience more adversity and difficulties than non-LGBTQ youth. "A commonality when things break down in a foster home and [the family] finds out that a young person is LGBTQ+, the agency doesn't know what to do," said Danielle (Danny) King, senior youth policy counsel at the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
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