2023 Adult Acceptance & LGBTQ+ Youth Suicide Rate Research
A number of individuals [32][33] and organizations [34] have stated their belief that church teachings against homosexuality and the treatment of LGBTQ Mormons by other members and leaders has contributed to LGBTQ Mormon suicides. [35][10][36] For example, LDS historian Gregory Prince stated that by condemning homosexuality as "evil, self-inflicted, and impossible in postmortal existence" LDS. When talking about LGBTQ youth suicides in our LDS community, we need to make sure we are working with the best empirical evidence available, and we need to be certain that the evidence presented is being interpreted correctly. Otherwise poor government policies will be put in place that may offer no benefit or might even exacerbate the problem. 
The LGBTQ Mormon Crisis
Family rejection leads to an eight-fold risk of suicide attempts among LGBTQ teens. The Family Acceptance Project (FAP) has done some excellent research showing that there is an exponential risk of suicide for LGBTQ teens who come from families that show “rejecting behaviors” such as not addressing issues of bullying and exclusion or endorsing attitudes that exclude members of the LGBTQ. This is an archived article that was published on sltrib. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
LGBT+ Resources
The Family Acceptance Project ® is a research, intervention, education and policy initiative to prevent health and mental health risks and to promote well-being for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-identified (LGBTQ) children and youth, including suicide, homelessness, drug use and HIV — in the context of their families, cultures and faith communities. On Friday, the Family Acceptance Project will release an LDS version of its evidence-based family education booklet that enable s families and communities to support LGBT youth in a way that reduces their risk for substance abuse, diminishes their risk for STDs including HIV, and dramatically reduces suicide and depression risk. Dabakis: There was a groundbreaking visit of Caitlyn Ryan, the PhD sociologist, who came to town and really enhanced the personal stories that we had been telling.
Family Acceptance Project Prevents LGBT Teen Suicide
The Family Acceptance Project This project offers resources and educational materials for families with LGBTQ members, particularly with regard to mental health care issues. Their offerings include an educational publication for those who are members of the Latter Day Saints community. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. A popular narrative about suicides of Utah youth — that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or its culture is driving higher rates — is not supported by data, social scientist Michael A. Any suicide is too many. Prince Research Excerpts on Gay Rights & Mormonism – “22a
It is well-documented that receiving LGBTQ identity-related support and acceptance from others may help protect against the development of these mental health concerns, with prior research from The Trevor Project showing that sexual orientation and gender identity acceptance from an adult is related to lower rates of suicide attempts among. The Utah suicide rate is consistently higher than the national rate. Transgender and nonbinary youth were 2 to 2. Latter
Latter-day Saint LGBTQ have lower suicide rates than the general population and most other religious populations. One possible reasoning is strong family and social support, which are crucial, Goodman said. . 
Welcome to the Family Acceptance Project®
With such findings in hand, Ryan then created the Family Acceptance Project, and in June , wrote and produced a booklet with Mormon bishop Robert Rees, titled "Supportive Families, Healthy Children: Helping Latter-day Saint Families With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Children.". .
LGBTQ Mormon suicides
As with other family education booklets from the Family Acceptance Project, Supportive Families, Healthy Children has been designated as the 1st “Best Practice” resource for suicide prevention for LGBT people by the national Best Practices Registry for Suicide Prevention and is the only such resource for Latter-day Saint (Mormon) families. .