Professional Development and Research to Improve School Practices and LGBTQ Health in US Schools

摘要

The authors analyzed data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's School Health Profiles, a unique surveillance system that monitors US schools' adoption of health-related practices, including LGBTQ-supportive practices. LGBTQ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOMENT Policy alone, however, is not enough to eradicate LGBTQ health disparities (e.g., in terms of suicide attempts5). [...]additional programmingis needed to support, affirm, and protect LGBTQ youths, and this is evident in the findings of Demissie et al. In 2014, the median percentage of health teachers across schools who received professional development related to LGBTQ issues was 13% (with an across-state range of 5.3%-28.8%). [...]from 2008 to 2014, this percentage increased in only nine of33 states.