Youth Groups

ACLU : Making Schools Safe for LGBT Youth

Web Site: http://www.aclu.org/issues/gay/safe_schools.html

Despite significant progress in recent years, schools continue to ignore or promote homophobia, which leads to harassment and violence. This is particularly true in under-served rural communities, which have been largely unaffected by gains in more urban school districts. There are more than 15 million high school students in small towns nationwide. About a million of them are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered or questioning (LGBTQ).

GLBT SwitchBoard

Community Referral Services
P.O. Box 55082,
Indianapolis,IN 46205
(317) 251-7955
E-mail
Web Site: http:/gayindy.org/switchboard/

The Indianapolis GLBT Switchboard is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered community and its friends and families.

The GLBT Switchboard provides information, referrals and peer counseling support. If you need info on businesses, services or events, or if you just to talk to someone who will listen, please call.

The line is answered every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, from 7-11pm central time. The number is (317) 251-7955. Remember we are here for you.

The Indianapolis GLBT Switchboard is operated by volunteers who give two or more nights a month to help the GLBT community.

IYG (Indiana Youth Group)

P.O. Box 20716
Indianapolis, IN 46220
(317) 541-8726 Office
(317) 545-8594 FAX
(800) 347-TEEN Hot Line
E-Mail:
Web Site: www.indianayouthgroup.org

Founded in 1987, Indiana Youth Group (IYG) is a non-profit youth services organization. IYG's mission is to provide a safe place, confidential environment and services which foster self-esteem, resiliency, and positive decision-making skills among self-identified gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender young people, and advocates on their behalf in schools, on the streets, and in the community.

IYG offers programs Wed-Fri weekly with street outreach to homeless and unattached LGBT youth occurring on weekends. IYG also hosts an annual art auction and the Indianapolis Gay and Lesbian Film Festival each fall.

National Runaway Switchboard

(800) 621-4000

PFLAG: Parents and Friends of Lesbians And Gays - Indianapolis

PO Box 441633
Indianapolis IN 46244-1633
317-545-7034
E-mail:
Web Site: http://gayindy.org/pflag

Project Safe Place

(317) 634-5437

Crisis help, counseling, shelter for runaways

Roc On--an IYG Program

(317) 541-8726

Call for location and times. Program for self-identified gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth, and their allies regarding HIV education, self-esteem and self-confidence building. Topics will include self-defense, handling harrassment, coming out and relationship issues. Refreshments provided.

Stopover, Inc.

2327 East 10th Street
(317) 635-9301

Crisis intervention to runaways, temporary housing

Trevor Helpline

(800) 850-8078

Round the clock national toll-free suicide hotline for gay and questioning youth, all calls are free and confidential.