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“[W]e know from the research that LGBTQ youth, as a population, really experience disproportionate risks to their well-being. So, for example, they frequently experience family and peer rejection, discrimination, bullying and harassment, and many other forms of violence and victimization due to their minority sexual or gender identities.”

“[W]e wanted to look at how. . . attitudes about LGBT people differ between teachers at rural middle and high schools compared to those teaching at an urban middle and high school setting. We also wanted to look at how. . . the teacher’s observances of anti-LGBT behaviors among the students and faculty bodies differ between rural and urban settings. And finally, we also wanted to look at [whether]...

“Gentrification can be thought of as a form of community loss.”

"Interventions are really needed in the field of social work to help address some of these disparities, so for example, using a patient-centered approach in discussing cost-related nonadherence as well as medication concerns or insuring that we are assessing for cost-related nonadherence when we are working with older clients. . .”