According to the grant description, “SGM students are more likely to report suicidality than peers in schools with protective policies when schools lack SGM [sexual and gender minority]
Bullying policies.” Additionally, research shows that schools without protective policies and resources—like gender and sexuality alliances (GSAs),
Antibullying rules tailored to SGM, training for teachers and staff, and publicly supporting allies—are more likely to experience SGM victimization.
In order to enhance the health of this high-need young group, researchers anticipate that the intervention will “a) reduce minority stress; b) improve behavioral health and coping along SGM;
And c) create sustainable change in school climate.” The intervention “is quite literally the culmination of thousands of kids’ input,”
