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The Howard Brown Health Center is a non-profit LGBT healthcare and social services provider, founded in 1974 by Chicago-based organizers and researchers and named after Dr. Howard Junior Brown. [40] Howard Brown Health describes itself as one of the first gay-focused health centers in the nation.
Howard Brown Health is an organization that focuses on providing health care for people within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community in several areas throughout the city of Chicago. They are one of the largest health care and research organizations primarily caring for the LGBTQ community in the United States. [1]
Mental health appears worse among LGBT people than among the general population, with depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide ideation being higher than the general population. [7] These mental health disparities are more evident in LGBTQ+ youth, with self-harm being reported by 65% of LGBQ youth and 46% of TGNC youth. [7]
The bill was reintroduced in the 2015 legislative session as the Youth Mental Health Protection Act. [108] [109] On May 19, 2015, the state House passed the ban in a 68–43 vote, [110] [111] and on May 29 the Senate passed it in a 34–19 vote. [112] On August 20, 2015, Governor Bruce Rauner signed it into law. It prohibits mental health ...
Mental health providers were more likely to ask patients about sexual orientation than medical providers, perhaps due to an awareness of the stress associated with being a member of a minority group. Less than half of the VHA providers overall (43%) had received any kind of training in LGBTQ+ health issues since they began practicing.
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