Bernadette Brown
Bernadette Brown is a senior program specialist at NCCD and manages a project that seeks to keep LGBTQ youth out of the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, with special emphasis on LGBTQ youth of color. Bernadette also delivers national trainings on LGBT youth and adults involved with the juvenile and criminal justice systems. She received her BA from Columbia University and her JD from Boston University.
Presentations from Facing Race 2014
"Those Kinds of Kids": LGBTQ Youth of Color in the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems
This workshop debunks myths around LGBTQ youth involved in juvenile justice (JJS) and/or child welfare systems (CWS) and will include the following: an overview of research, a dialogue on the intersections of identities, and the belief that communities of color are more homophobic than white communities. Using stories collected from LGBTQ youth across the country, participants will discuss how to overcome the barriers that LGBTQ youth encounter in these systems.
Speakers: Bernadette Brown, Natalíe Lorraine Ortega