MedPage Today (6/5, Putka) reports, “Of all mental health facilities that serve youth in the U.S., only 28% offered LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer)-specific mental health services in 2020, a small increase from 25% in 2014, according to data from the National Mental Health Services Survey” published online June 5 in a research letter in JAMA Pediatrics.
The survey data revealed that “per capita, all 50 states had fewer than 10 youth-serving facilities with LGBTQ-specific services per 100,000 children, with services more available in coastal states and less available in rural ones.”
Additionally, “for-profit facility status was associated with higher odds of offering LGBTQ-specific services compared with nonprofit status…while public facility status was associated with lower odds.”
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