User:Youth Pride

National Youth Pride Services is the largest, membership based, national LGBT youth leadership and development organization that is specifically designed to meet and exceeds the needs of black gay youth in America. It conducts capacity building and cultural workshops & presentations across the country at conferences, conventions and retreat; consults on several high profile research projects where data is needed from black LGBT youth regionally and/or nationally; is the lead organization on the National Strategy For Black Gay Youth in America. (NYPS only provides direct services to youth from rural areas where no LGBT center/resource is located)

Our national programs that youth around the country can join include:

·        BOMANI – black LGBT youth in the military

·        S.W.A.G. – black LGBT youth with a disability

·        Young Women’s Program

·        Code Red – national social marketing/campaign/performance team for YMSM

·        Ambassadors – national youth leadership and development

·        Young Leaders Society – young activists, entrepreneurs, graphic artists, photographers, spoken word artists, athletes and more who come together to use their talents to support the mission of NYPS.

·        PULSE – black LGBT youth who are HIV positive from around the country