Supporting LGBT+ Youth

For the past fifteen years, Ceres has trained over 30 probation departments, youth courts, and youth-serving organizations on how to best serve system-impacted LGBTQ+ youth.

The work has been primarily completed under our Whole Youth Initiative which provided training to youth-serving systems on data collection, guidance on policy development, and data analysis to identify system disparities.

The Ceres Institute and Georgetown University Center for Juvenile Justice Reform SOGIE Data Collection Certificate Program (formerly the Whole Youth Initiative). Ceres now partners with Georgetown University’s Center for Juvenile Justice Reform on a three-year technical assistance initiative that teaches youth-serving organizations how to treat LGBTQ youth as whole people.  Sites will learn how to collect sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression data, assess their findings, and how to write a strategic plan to improve outcomes for all youth. The first and third years will have one week site-visits on the Georgetown campus.