Adapting community health worker care models to advance mental health services among lgbtq youth

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    While LGBTQ individuals are more than twice as likely as non-LGBTQ individuals to have a mental health disorder (The Trevor Project, 2022), substance use disorder, or die by suicide (Kann et_al, 2016; Ream, 2019), they experience greater difficulty in accessing needed mental health services (Schulman and amp; Erickson-Schroth, 2019; Williams et_al, 2018). Anti-LGBTQ stigma exacerbates mental health disparities, in that it contributes to psychological distress and impedes access to care (Holt et_al, 2023; Rees et_al, 2021). Evidence suggests that LGBTQ youth of color are at an increased risk of developing depressive . . .

     

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