The Gay Nebraska Youth Network

2012 C.V. Starr Social Entrepreneurship FellowshipDrew Heckman

● Spring Break○ PFLAG Speakers'

Bureau○ Picnic & Hunger

Games Event ● Succession Plan

○ Identifying Potential Leaders

● MA Suicide Prevention

Training○ NE Training

Project Updates

● Scale○ South Dakota

● Upcoming

○ NAP Fashion Show, Pride

○ New HRC President

Group LeadersTrainingTime

PlanningAt EventsOnline

Facebook GroupResource List

Community CalendarMoney to subsidize events

Logic Model, Inputs

Moderate online discussion boardPost about relevant news in politics, sexual health, etc.Diffuse public interpersonal conflictsPoll members about important decisions

Plan and facilitate group eventsMake connections with relevant community groups and find ways to collaborateMaintain community calendarContribute to community listserv

Logic Model, Activities

Events heldMembers gained/retainedIncreased number of youth who come out to their peers/family (demonstrated mental and physical health benefits of being "out")Decreased number of youth indicating feelings of isolation, loneliness, or depression because of their sexual identityIncreased average number of community resource organizations (LGBT and otherwise) with which members are involvedIncreased knowledge of sexual health and current political events

Logic Model, Outputs

Better psychological and social outcomesMore visible LGBT youth communityGreater sense of LGBT youth communityGreater organizational participation and cross-collaborationIncreased awareness of and access to resourcesYouth feel empowered to make active change in their own communities and beyondYouth actively and intentionally contribute to the shaping of the norms and climate of the communities they inhabitYouth leaders train others to leadBetter climate for LGBT populations in NE, eventually other places

Logic Model, Outcomes

OutputsTotal membershipEvents held & turnoutIncreased "outness" of members

Outcomes

Better psychosocial outcomesSense of young gay communityEmpowered and impassioned youth

Metrics & Measurement