On November 17- 18, the U.S. Consulate supported the participation of six U.S. LGBT housing experts to participate in Out@Home: The LGBT Youth Homelessness Summit.
This summit organized by the Canadian non-governmental organization Egale brought together national and international experts to work collaboratively to evaluate a model for the first LGBT specific youth housing facility in Canada; to share best and promising practices in addressing LGBT youth homelessness in other regions; and to develop recommendations for resolving systemic causes associated with LGBT youth homelessness within the social and housing sectors more broadly.
In 2012, Egale Canada Human Rights Trust (Egale) conducted a needs assessment of LGBT youth homelessness in Toronto, resulting in the pressing recommendation that LGBT youth should have the option of a separate LGBT specific interim housing unit to mitigate the trauma of homophobic and transphobic discrimination, bullying and violence experienced in the general supportive housing system.
