Colors: LGBTQ Youth Counseling Services

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Amidst National Crises, a Boutique LGBTQ+ Therapy Provider Rallies to Make a Gigantic Impact LOS ANGELES, Calif. COLORS LGBTQ Youth Counseling Services, which offers free and unlimited mental health services to LGBTQ+-identified youth under 25 out of Antioch University in Los Angeles, is rallying nationally to respond to its highest-ever patient demand. On November 18th, the organization will officially launch new services during an online event. Although COLORS is... licensed to see patients only in California, this launch is aimed to better support its local community and eventually provide counseling in other states. Since 2012, COLORS has helped over 5,000 young people through their individual journeys and challenges. We’ve been living through this pandemic for nine months. Although we’ve always held sessions exclusively in-person to ensure patient confidentiality, rapport and comfort, we must remain accessible, says board chair Enrique Lopez. We’ve kept every scheduled session on the calendar virtually. With national civil unrest and blatant assaults on LGBTQ+ rights, it’s no wonder COLORS’ patient demand has nearly doubled this year. With the state of the country, queer youth need us now more than ever, adds founder Doug Sadownick. So many are struggling with anxiety, isolation and loneliness and, for those who cannot call home a safe place, there is a real disconnect for them in a ’safer at home’ pandemic state. COLORS’ held its last fundraiser a mixer at La Peer Hotel in West Hollywood, hosted by actor Charlie Carver (The Boys in the Band, Ratched, The Leftovers) one year ago. This year, the organization is facing its highest patient demand without access to events. We’re calling on the entire community and our allies nationally to help us raise enough to staff more therapists and see every patient, says advisor Jessie Jacobson. Join our next event to help us end the waiting list. COLORS’ next event will kickoff virtually on Wednesday, November 18th at 5:00PM PST and will feature the launch of its new services, heartfelt stories and live performances. See more

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Amidst National Crises, a Boutique LGBTQ+ Therapy Provider Rallies to Make a Gigantic Impact LOS ANGELES, Calif. COLORS LGBTQ Youth Counseling Services, which offers free and unlimited mental health services to LGBTQ+-identified youth under 25 out of Antioch University, is rallying nationally to respond to its highest-ever patient demand. On November 18th, COLORS will officially launch new services during an online event. Since 2012, COLORS has helped over 5,000 you...ng people through their individual journeys and challenges. We’ve been living through this pandemic for nine months now. Although we’ve always held sessions exclusively in-person to ensure patient confidentiality, rapport and comfort, we must remain accessible, says board chair Enrique Lopez. We’ve kept every single scheduled session on the calendar virtually. With national civil unrest and blatant assaults on LGBTQ+ rights, it’s no wonder the provider’s patient demand has nearly doubled this year. With the state of the country, queer youth need us now more than ever, adds founder Doug Sadownick. So many are struggling with anxiety, isolation and loneliness and, for those who cannot call home a safe place, there is a real disconnect for them in a ’safer at home’ pandemic state. COLORS’ held its last fundraiser a mixer at La Peer Hotel in West Hollywood, hosted by actor Charlie Carver (The Boys in the Band, Ratched, The Leftovers) one year ago. This year, the therapy provider is facing its highest patient demand without access to events. We’re calling on the entire community and our allies nationally to help us raise enough to staff more therapists and see every patient, says COLORS therapist and advisor Jessie Jacobson. Join our next event to help us end the waiting list. COLORS’ next event will take place virtually on Wednesday, November 18th from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM PST and will feature the launch of its new services, heartfelt stories and live performances. Contact [email protected] to RSVP and donate at colorsyouth.org. See more

TransACTION! Panelists: BAMBY SALCEDO is a national and international recognized transgender Latina Woman who received her Master’s Degree in Latin@ Studies from California State California Los Angeles. Bamby is the President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, a national organization that focuses on addressing the issues of transgender Latin@s in the US. Bamby developed the Center for Violence Prevention & Transgender Wellness, a multipurpose, multiservice space for Trans ...people in Los Angeles. Bamby’s remarkable and wide-ranging activist work has brought voice and visibility to not only the trans community, but also to the multiple overlapping communities and issues that her life has touched including migration, HIV, youth, LGBT, incarceration and Latin@ communities. Through her instinctive leadership, she has birthed several organizations that created community where there was none, and advocate for the rights, dignity, and humanity for those who have been without a voice. Bamby’s work as a collaborator and a connector through a variety of organizations reflects her skills in crossing various borders and boundaries and working in the intersection of multiple communities as well as the intersections of multiple issues. Bamby has served and participated in many local, national and international organizations and planning groups. This work mediates intersections of race, gender, sexuality, age, social class, HIV+ status, immigration status and more. Her powerful, sobering and inspiring speeches and her warm, down-to-earth presence have provided emotional grounding and perspective for diverse gatherings. She speaks from the heart, as one who has been able to transcend many of her own issues, to truly drop ways of being and coping that no longer served her, issues that have derailed and paralyzed countless lives. Her words and experience evoke both tears and laughter, sobriety and inspiration through the documentary made about her life called TransVisible: Bamby Salcedo’s Story. Bamby has been featured and recognized in multiple media outlets such as People en Español, Latina Magazine, Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, OUT 100 and featured in the HBO documentary The Trans List, among many other. Bamby has also being recognized for her outstanding work by multiple national and local organizations.

TransACTION! Panelists: JESSIE JACOBSON (MODERATOR) is a transwoman who has worked as the first trans Marriage & Family Therapist at the LA LGBT Center and in private practice; a lecturer (on trans issues and psychology), a consultant, and has taught a human sexuality graduate psychology course at her alma mater, Antioch University LA. Jessie is also a singer, songwriter, arranger and musician (guitar, bass, keyboards) composing and performing music for theatrical performan...ces for the writing/performing collective QueerWise as well as independent theatrical productions. She is also active performing readings of her poetry and prose at theatrical events such as Library Girl, Rant and Rave and others. She has worked as a musical producer and played in various bands in the 1980s and 1990s including Second Language. Jessie is married to another transwoman and they live in Los Angeles with their cats.

COLORS LGBTQ Youth Counseling Services and Outfest are thrilled to be collaborating on the screening of VALENTINA. 17-year-old Valentina, a girl of trans experience, finds trouble in her small new Brazilian town when she attempts to enroll in school under her new name. The screening is on August 25th-28th, 2020. For tickets: https://www.outfestnow.com/videos/valentina

COLORS provides free and unlimited LGBTQ-affirmative mental health services for youth even in a pandemic. Editor: Greg Sirota. Music: Matt Alber. Sound Mix: Bryan Colvin. Graphics: Dianan Hiatt. Script: Asher Hung.

COLORS LGBTQ Youth Counseling Services is free and unlimited and available even during a pandemic. Big thanks to: Editor: Greg Sirota. Music: Matt Alber. Sound Mix: Bryan Colvin. Graphics: Diana Hiatt. Script: Asher Hung.

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John Lewis, longtime Georgia congressman, an advocate of nonviolent protest who had his skull fractured by Alabama state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, was the last surviving speaker from 1963's March on Washington. Lewis was honored and respected as the conscience of the U.S. Congress and an icon of American history. #Restinpower

Professor Kimberle Crenshaw coined the term "intersectionality" in 1989. Intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects. It's not simply that there's a race problem here, a gender problem here, and a class or LBGTQ problem there.Jun 8, 2017

COLORS LGBTQ Youth Counseling Services stands in solidarity with Black Lives and Black Trans Lives. #BLM

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