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Promoting Community-Based Affirmation For Diverse Lgbtq+ Youth, Lisa M. Chauveron
Promoting Community-Based Affirmation For Diverse Lgbtq+ Youth, Lisa M. Chauveron
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
Growing evidence shows that offering affirmation to LGBTQ+ youth is critical to their well-being; yet, strategies providing affirmation at the community level of youth ecologies are woefully under-addressed in the literature. The studies in this dissertation help fill this gap, examining affirmation: a) in community-based programs, b) from people and communities, and c) in program evaluations. Paper One focuses on LGBTQ+ culturally competent service in community-based youth programs (CBYPs). An exploratory factor analysis uncovered the dimensions of such competency in a 3-factor model: Individual Knowledge, Individual Comfort and Practice, and Perceptions of Overall Agency Comfort and Practice. A new retrospective …