We walk because the suicide rate for LGBTQ Youth is 4 times the amount of their heterosexual counterparts...
Pride
for Youth is doing their part to prevent LGBTQ youth suicide by walking
(and working) at Long Island Crisis Center's Annual 'Let's Walk, Let's
Talk' Suicide Awareness Walk on Sunday September 29th in Long Beach.
Pride
for Youth is a project of Long Island Crisis Center, which was founded
in 1971. Very early on, LICC was taking calls from LGBTQ Long Islanders
leading us to start the areas first Gay Peer Counseling Hotline. Years
later LICC opened the doors to Pride for Youth, Long Islands first LGBTQ
youth center and the first suburban LGBTQ center in the country! Years
later, LICC runs Pride for Youth, The Mpowerment Project and in 2012,
LICC answered over 11,000 calls from Long Islanders in need.
Every
year our youth Program Leaders work at the suicide awareness walk,
helping teams find each other, encouraging walkers and helping out all
the PFY and LICC staff! PFY staff work the walk as well and many alumni
come back to walk as well!
If
you'd like to form a team and walk in memory of someone you know, join
someones team or if you would just like to donate to LICC visit our registration site here! We hope to see you on September 29th!
