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Campus, Local and National Resources
Resources for LGBTQIA+ Students
These resources are intended to support students in their academic and personal success, as well as uphold the university values of inclusive excellence.
Emergency resources
Are you currently experiencing a crisis? There is help. People care, want to help and are here to listen.
- Domestic Violence Hotline
- Kansas City Anti-Violence Project or 1-816-561-0550
- National Deaf Domestic Violence Hotline
- National Sexual Assault Hotline or 1-800-656-HOPE (4619)
- National Suicide Prevention Hotline or 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
- Trans Lifeline or 1-877-565-8860
- Trevor Project youth hotline or 1-866-488-7386
Campus resources
- Counseling Center
- Financial Wellness Center
- Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America (GLAMA)
- Multicultural Student Affairs
- Out List
- Rainbow Lounge and Library
- Resources, Intervention, Support and Education (RISE)
- Student Health
- Women's Center
- UMKC Policies and Reporting
Local resources
- AIDS Walk Kansas City
- OutVoices magazine
- Kansas City Anti-Violence Project
- Kansas City Center for Inclusion, offering education, resources and activities
- KC CARE Clinic health and wellness
- KC Pride Fest
- Mid America Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
- Passages: Kansas City's LGBT Youth Center
- Perform OutKC performing arts program
- PFLAG-Kansas City, providing help for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQIA) youth, their families, and communities
- PROMO legislative action, electoral politics and grassroots organizing
- Thrive Health KC HIV/AIDS and STI advocacy, care and education
National resources
- The Asexual Visibility & Education Network (AVEN)
- Bisexual Resource Center
- Campus Pride, leading national nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization for student leaders and campus groups working to create a safer college environment for LGBTQ students
- Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
- Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
- Human Rights Campaign (HRC), largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organization
- Lambda Legal, national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and everyone living with HIV
- National Center for Transgender Equality
- National Coalition for LGBT Health
- National LGBTQ Task Force
- Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
- The Trevor Project