{"id":19779,"date":"2018-03-28T19:08:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T19:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=19779"},"modified":"2020-07-22T11:56:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T15:56:21","slug":"couple-to-open-wisconsins-first-group-home-for-lgbtq-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2018\/03\/couple-to-open-wisconsins-first-group-home-for-lgbtq-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple to open Wisconsin&#8217;s first group home for LGBTQ youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19780\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/CourageHouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/CourageHouse.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/CourageHouse-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/CourageHouse-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nBrad Schlaikowski and his husband Nick have spent the last two years raising money to open an eight-bedroom group home in Milwaukee specifically for LGBTQ teens. It&#8217;s called Courage House, and expected to open its doors in November. It will be Wisconsin\u2019s first group home and drop-in center specifically for LGBTQ youth.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/gay-couple-open-wisconsin-s-first-group-home-lgbtq-youth-n860336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have 500 kids on the street in Milwaukee, 40 percent identify as LGBT,&#8221; Brad said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that many of those LGBTQ youth are &#8220;perpetually on the street because their parents rejected them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Schlaikowskis have four children of their own: three boys, who are Brad\u2019s biological sons from a previous marriage, and a baby girl they adopted together.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to starting Courage House, the couple fostered two LGBTQ teenagers. One, a 17-year-old girl, was thrown out of her parents\u2019 house after she came out as a lesbian, according to Brad. He said she was turned away from a homeless shelter for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p>The home will offer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abcpediatrictherapy.com\/childrens-therapy-serving-dayton-and-cincinnati\/\">children&#8217;s therapy<\/a> and counseling, and will partner with a local staffing firm that will provide employment training and job placement for the teen residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Schlaikowski and his husband Nick have spent the last two years raising money to open an eight-bedroom group home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":19780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,14327],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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