How can outreach efforts be tailored to reach marginalized LGBTQ+ individuals who may be particularly vulnerable to conversion therapy?

After six years of conversion therapy, I was suicidal. I was born and raised in a born-again, Evangelical Christian household in a town just outside Glasgow. Jul 10, 2020 ... Conversion therapy is the pseudo-medical or religious practice of trying to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity to heterosexual or cisgender ... Call our HelpLine at 800-950-6264, text 'NAMI' to 62640, or chat online. In a crisis, call or text 988. ... Get Involved ... Find out how you can be a NAMI HelpLine ... Conversion "therapy" laws prohibit licensed mental health practitioners from subjecting LGBTQ minors to harmful conversion "therapy" practices that attempt to ... Jul 26, 2023 ... A ban on conversion therapy for minors was signed into law in Michigan Wednesday in the latest development of the new Democratic-led state Legislature's push ... Conversion “therapy,” also referred to as “Reparative Therapy” or “Ex-Gay Therapy,” is a widely discredited practice that attempts to change an individual's ... Jan 6, 2025 ... A Colorado law that bans licensed mental health professionals from engaging in harmful and ineffective conversion therapy to change a minor's sexual ... The research on conversion therapy is limited by the difficulty of empirically assessing a person's sexual orientation. All of the studies we identified rely on ... Mar 6, 2024 ... The APA now refers to conversion therapy techniques as “sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE)” or “gender identity change efforts (GICE).” It ... Jun 24, 2021 ... Gay, lesbian and bisexual people who experienced conversion therapy were almost twice as likely to have suicidal thoughts and to have attempted suicide.