High Impact Practices Student Showcase Fall 2023
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The Importance of Mental Health Amongst the LGBTQ+ Community
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Course Code
LDR
Course Number
3215
Faculty/Instructor
Shemeca Smith
Faculty/Instructor Email
shemeca.smith@ucf.edu
Abstract, Summary, or Creative Statement
When it comes to the LGBTQ+ community, it has become known with more studies and research that many in the community have suffered through traumatic experiences regarding sexual assault and/or violence. This has caused a big impact on the mental health of the victims, but because there is not enough resources to the LGBTQ+ community that are open to them, those victims have a hard time recovering or feeling seen. Amongst the community are of course the youth coming in from the next generations that may unfortunately deal with these issues in safety and mental health, so they deserve to have centers accessible to them to discuss and resolve these types of issues. All research or studies that have been towards these issues within the community have all found that centers are out there, but even those centers have a hard time being seen like the people within the community. The best course of action is to spread information about these organizations, as well as bring awareness that LGBTQ+ people are suffering from mental health and that like anyone else, deserve to have resources to help them in a safe and inclusive manner.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Keywords
Mental Health, LGBTQ+, Youth
Recommended Citation
Perotin, Adrian, "The Importance of Mental Health Amongst the LGBTQ+ Community" (2023). High Impact Practices Student Showcase Fall 2023. 88.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/hip-2023fall/88
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