Resources

This is a list of resources curated by the EnqiQueers Leadership Team that you are welcome to reference and use whenever you’d like! If you have ideas for additions to this list, please email us at engqrs@seas.upenn.edu

On Campus Resources:

Off Campus Resources:

  • Attic Youth Center: Offering teletherapy for individuals, couples, and families as well as weekly group therapy sessions. Counselors and therapists can assist with coming out, problems at school, gender questions, depression, anxiety, relationships, stress management, anger management, and conflicts with friends or family.
  • Mazzoni Center: Offering quality professional, accessible, and culturally affirming psychotherapy and psychiatric services to LGBTQ individuals, couples, and families; individual, group, and intensive outpatient treatment for people dealing with alcohol and substance use dynamic support and therapy groups; psychiatric evaluation and medication management; and peer recovery support services assistance with resources and referrals to community-based services.
  • Trevor Project Hotline: The nation’s only 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention lifeline for LGBTQ+ peoples ages 13-24.
  • Trans Lifeline: Trans Lifeline’s Hotline is a peer support service run by trans people, for trans and questioning callers. Our operators are located all over the U.S. and Canada, and are all trans-identified. If you are in a crisis or just need someone to talk to, even if it’s just about whether or not you’re not trans, please call us. We will do our best to support you and provide you resources.

Crisis Prevention/Intervention Resources:

  • The Trevor Project Hotline: The nation’s only 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention lifeline for LGBTQ+ peoples ages 13-24.
    • Phone: 1-866-488-7386
    • Text: “Trevor” to 1-202-304-1200 (Available Thurs. and Fri. from 4pm-8pm ET)
    • Trevor Chat (Available 7 days a week, from 3pm-9pm ET)
  • The GLBT National Help Center: Serving the LGBTQ+ community by providing free and confidential peer-support and local resources.
    • Hotline: 1-888-843-4564
    • Youth Talkline: 1-800-246-7743
  • Trans Lifeline: Trans Lifeline’s Hotline is a peer support service run by trans people, for trans and questioning callers. Our operators are located all over the U.S. and Canada, and are all trans-identified. If you are in a crisis or just need someone to talk to, even if it’s just about whether or not you’re not trans, please call us. We will do our best to support you and provide you resources.
    • Phone: 877-565-8860
  • Survivors Organizing for Liberation: Services for LGBTQ+ survivors of violence including direct client services and crisis intervention.
    • Phone: 1-888-557-4441
  • American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: AFSP is dedicated to preventing suicide among LGBTQ+ people. As a public health organization, AFSP believes that it is our individual and collective responsibility to support the mental health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people.
    • Free Crisis Text Line (24/7): Text TALK to 741741
    • Crisis Chat
  • THRIVE Lifeline: Experienced suicide interveners to help keep you safe during times of acute mental health crises. If you are not in an acute crisis, but are dealing with stress as you navigate identity, orientation, or barriers to academic and professional entry, THRIVE can help!
    • Phone: 1-313-662-8209 (Available 24/7, must be 18 yrs or older)

School/Academic/Career Resources

Conferences

  • oSTEM Annual Conference: Conference space for LGBTQ+ students and professionals in STEM fields to share their experiences and learn from one another. Conferences typically held in mid-November.
  • Creating Change by the National LGBTQ Task Force: The National LGBTQ Task Force advances full freedom, justice, and equality for LGBTQ people. We are building a future where everyone can be free to be their entire selves in aspect of their lives. The LGBTQ Task Force is mobilizing millions of activists across our nation to deliver a world were you can be you! Conferences typically held in early-to-mid January.
  • Lesbians Who Tech: Community of LGBTQ Women, non-binary, and trans individuals in and around tech (and those who support them).  Conferences typically held in early-June.
  • NOGLSTP’s Out to InnovateTM Summit for LGBTQ+ People in STEM: Cross-generational summit that provides an educational and supportive environment for career development and enrichment for LGBTQ+ students, academics, and career professionals in STEM fields. Conferences are held biennially (every other year; even years) in July.

Career Resources

LGBTQ+ Scholarships

STEM Specific:

  • NOGLSTP Out to InnovateTM Scholarship: NOGLSTP established the Out to InnovateTM Scholarship for LGBTQ+ Students in STEM, following NOGLSTP’s inaugural Out to InnovateTM Career Summit for LGBTQ+ People in STEM. These scholarships are intended for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) programs who are either lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or an active ally of the LGBTQ+ community. The scholarships are designed to promote academic excellence and increased visibility of talented LGBTQ+ students in STEM careers.
    • Application Deadline: First Saturday in June
    • Amount: $5000

National Scholarships:

  • Point Foundation: Point Foundation (Point) is the nation’s largest higher education scholarship-granting organization LGBTQ students. Point’s multifaceted support of its scholarship recipients (“scholars”) extends far beyond direct financial contribution toward the cost of their education. Each scholar is paired with a mentor and participates in leadership development programs and events.
    • Application Deadline: Late January (Opens Nov. 1st)
    • Amount: $10,000 average

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