The Biden administration has given millions of dollars to researchers to run an experimental program that pulls children out of class to train them to become LGBTQ activists.
Under a $2.5 million program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 12 school It is tasked with recruiting students to participate in a paid, 10-week “intervention” aimed at helping young people who identify as LGBTQ “cope with the effects of minority stress.” According to To explain the grant.
Sample sessions in the intervention, titled Proud & Empowered (P&E), cover topics such as “Coming Out, Disclosure, and Decision Making” and “Families of Origin and the Families We Create.” According to Go to the program flyer.
Sample lessons posted on the website ask students to read articles that “demonstrate LGBTQ+ youth leadership in their local communities,” such as high school students teaching in the classroom. walk-out and march.
Separate sessions include LGBTQ+ history videos and the crisis of “queer history” game. (Related: Biden administration writes big checks to activists using schools as recruitment sites for LGBT ‘family therapy’ programs)
Parental permission does not appear to be required for students to participate. The researchers asked for the parental permission requirement to be waived, fearing it could “put some sexual minority youth at risk regarding disclosing their sexual orientation to their parents.” According to In the research plan.
“As a result, these young people may be at risk of parental harassment, abuse, or expulsion from their parents’ homes,” the document continues.
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Financial incentives are available for program participants. According to Go to the P&E website. Students will receive a $75 gift card, school staff will receive a $1,000 honorarium, and schools will receive a $4,000 honorarium, which P&E hopes will be used to “improve LGBTQ+ programs and supports.”
24 total high schools in Los Angeles area Half of the participants in the study will receive the intervention and the other half will form a control group who do not receive the intervention. According to Until the announcement of the subsidy. Open to students ages 12 to 20. According to Eligibility criteria apply.
“The school’s primary role is to recruit eight to 12 LGBTQ+ students to participate in the intervention once a week for 10 weeks,” P&E’s website explains. “Intervention sessions may occur throughout the day, during homeroom time, or during lunch breaks.”
Researchers previously received Federal grant to conduct small-scale intervention testing in four schools in 2019. The latest grant was awarded in 2022, with a project end date set for 2026.
“When schools lack SGM” [sexual and gender minority] “In schools with bullying policies, SGM students are more likely to report suicide than other students in schools with protective policies,” the grant description states. “Studies show that schools that lack protective policies and resources, such as Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSAs), SGM-specific anti-bullying guidelines, teacher and staff training, and openly supportive allies, are more vulnerable to SGM victimization. has also been shown to be more common.
Researchers believe that this intervention “a) reduces minority stress; b) improves behavioral health and coping in line with the SGM; and c) creates sustainable changes in school environments to address this need.” Improving the health of young people.
Jeremy Goldback, a professor at the University of Washington who led the study and founded P&E in 2010, said: said He said the intervention was “literally the culmination of the input of thousands of children”.
“It’s humbling to look back at the young people who took the time to interview us, fill out surveys and help us learn,” he said after announcing the 2022 grant.
Goldbach’s research focuses on “minority stress and discrimination among LGBTQ+ children and youth,” and has received “ongoing funding” from several federal agencies since 2012. According to on his profile.
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