Nancy Cutler, Rockland/Westchester Journal NewsPublished 4:56 a.m. ET April 19, 2019 | Updated 4:41 p.m. ET April 19, 2019 The U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to hear a challenge to New Jersey’s lawbanning the use of so-called conversion therapy on minors. It was the third attempt to get the high court to knock down New Jersey’s

BY JOE KILLIAN ON APRIL 19, 2019 Mitchell Gold, like many gay North Carolinians, cannot understand why there isn’t already a state law banning so-called “conversion” therapy. Sixteen states and Washington, D.C., now ban the practice, which aims to “cure” lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people. And polls show a law forbidding it in North Carolina

BY TRUDY RING APRIL 04 2019 1:30 PM EDT The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints — known informally as the Mormon Church — has backtracked on some of its anti-LGBTQ policies, while remaining opposed to same-sex relationships. The church will no longer bar most children of LGBTQ parents from receiving baptism, and while it

From Board Member Mitchell Gold – Tyler Clementi Foundation. I am writing in response to “NC’s child suicide nearly doubled in a decade” (March 20). In the face of this terrible news, a glimmer of hope is that suicide and its risk factors are absolutely preventable. Resources, such as the Tyler Clementi Foundation’s #Day1 program,

More than three million students are bullied every year in American schools, a heartbreaking number that translates to more than a quarter of kids in grades 6-12 and those are just the targets. Nearly 70 percent of students report having witnessed cruel and humiliating behavior. The bill currently before the New Jersey state legislature that

After hearing the tragic story of Seven Bridges, one mother, turned suicide prevention advocate, is reaching out with suggestions to prevent bullying in schools.

All 50 states have anti-bullying laws, but just 20 have explicit sexual orientation protections, according to the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. Suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth is an endemic public health issue: LGBTQ youth face more bullying and report higher levels of suicide attempts and suicidal thoughts than

Jason Cianciotto, who joined the Tyler Clementi Foundation (TCF) in September 2017 as Executive Director, has announced that his tenure will be completed at the end of 2018. This follows Jane Clementi’s October announcement about expanding her role to become TCF’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Cianciotto has been helping to facilitate this transition. “Like so

RIDGEWOOD, NJ —Following her son’s suicide, Jane Clementi turned to something that some people might abandon: Her faith. Clementi spoke on the “Today” show Wednesday, on what would have been her son Tyler’s 27th birthday. “I would hear single words at a time and to me that was God’s presence,” Clementi said. “He would continually

Today, the Tyler Clementi Foundation announced the launch of the #Day1 Toolkit for Christian communities. The toolkit creates a simple, effective and empowering framework for stopping, and ultimately ending, bullying, beginning on the first day of any Sunday school or youth group. This new toolkit, specifically geared toward Christian communities and churches, joins those previously released by the Tyler