360 Youth Services, working with community partners, established what is now the Community Network Professionals supporting LGBTQ Youth in November of 2001. The group meets monthly with the following goals:

• Provide a safe and respectful environment for professionals, service providers, and community members to network, gain access, share resources, provide expertise, and educate ourselves and other providers on issues related to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth.
• Provide training for providers (open to those working with youth in a variety of settings) to increase professional competencies in working with LGBTQ youth.

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth are often an invisible minority receiving little support from those around them. We know that sexual minority youth have higher rates of depression, bullying, school drop out, homelessness, suicide and drug use.

Professional Development Archives:

November 4, 2011
Healing the Rift Part 2: Supporting the Emergence of LGBT Individuals with Healthy Spirituality
Workshop Flyer

February 25, 2011
Discovering Heroes, Creating Allies Interpersonal Violence and Systems Response
Workshop Flyer

October 15, 2010
Healing the Rift: Religious Upbringing and Consequential Guilt in the LGBT Community
Workshop Flyer

Community Network Partners

360 Youth Services
Chicago Lakeshore Hospital,
College of DuPage,
Compassionate Counseling,
DuPage County Health Department,
DuPage Unitarian Universalist Church,
First Congregational UCC Naperville,
Hope United Church of Christ Naperville,
Illinois Safe School Alliance,
Linden Oaks Hospital at Edward,
Naperville Police Department,
PFLAG Council of Northern Illinois,
PFLAG DuPage,
Rosecrance,
Wesley United Methodist Church Naperville,
West Chicago Community Education Center,
YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago Patterson & McDaniel Family Center,
Youth Outlook

For further information contact:
Karen Jarczyk at 961-2992 extension 223.