“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best is now.” It’s a proverb that our It Gets Better: Changemakers youth leaders take to heart. They are those seeds, planted and nurtured throughout the grant program, emerging as a forest of new leaders adding to the foundation of support built by leadersContinue reading “It Gets Better: Changemakers Grantee Spotlight. Meet Delaney”
By Raelee Sweet Teens today navigate a complex digital world. While the data shows U.S. teens spend an average of 4.8 hours of their day on social media, LGBTQ+ youth spend 3.72 more hours online than their cishet peers, and 41% of teens who spend the most time on social media report poor or veryContinue reading “See a difference in your mental health in just 10 minutes!”
My name is Phi, and I am an alumni of It Gets Better’s Youth Voices program. It Gets Better came into my life at a time when I was still figuring out who I was. My hometown didn’t have its own LGBTQ+ Center and my family wasn’t exactly accepting, but I still wanted to be openly queer, shareContinue reading “Youth Voices Alum Update: “It Gets Better Helped Me Find My Voice””