Promoting the Wellbeing of LGBTQ+ People & Their Families
The National Center for Youth with Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity & Expression (The National SOGIE Center), provides a centralized site for accessing resources on providing culturally responsive care to children, youth, young adults with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression (SOGIE) and their families across systems, including child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health (including school mental health), substance use systems, and housing and homelessness.
What We Offer
The SOGIE Center provides training, technical assistance, and implementation support for creating culturally responsive systems for LGBTQ+ children, youth, and their families. We work across systems of care and have resources and training specific to each system. Click on a specific topics below to learn more!
Youth, Family & Caregiver Programming​
The SOGIE Center has partnered with communities and program purveyors to develop, implement, and evaluate several best practices and programs for LGBTQ+ youth and their families. The result of the five-year effort was the development and refinement of evidence-informed interventions that can now be replicated. Click on a program below to learn more!
Who We Are
The SOGIE Center is a collaborative comprised by the following organizations that work to improve the lives of children and youth with diverse SOGIE involved in systems of care.
