Local Resources
The Help You Need
- The Trevor Project – Crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGTBQ+ young people ages 13-24
- Call 866-488-7386 OR Text “START” to 678678
- Trans Lifeline
- Call 877-565-8860988
- Suicide & Crisis Hotline
- Dial 988
- Crisis Center for South Suburbs
- Call 708-429-SAFE (7233)
- NAMI Illinois Crisis Line
- Call 800-950-6264
- Will County Crisis Line
- Call 815-722-3344
These are the Resources and Organizations whose services we recommend most often.
For a more extensive list, we recommend you check out Youth Outlook’s Resource Page.
- Youth Outlook – Runs several weekly drop in centers throughout the Western and Southwestern suburbs of Chicago
- Young:Equal – Holds social events for LGTBQ+ you every other month.
- TJLP – Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois provides Legal Assistance, including help with name changes
- Illinois Safe Schools Alliance
- Advocacy Request Form – Provide help to students experiencing identity based discrimination and/or harassments.
- Equality Illinois – Advocacy organization dedicated to defending rights for LGTBQ+ Illinoisans.
- Q-Chat Space – Online community for LGTBQ+ Teens
- imi – Online mental health tool for LGTBQ+ teens, by LGTBQ+ teens and their allies.
- Campus Pride Index – Database of hundreds of LGTBQ+ friendly campuses and what they have to offer.
- PCNI Book & Movie Recommendations (PFLAG Council of Northern Illinois)
- Masjid al-Rabia Center – Spiritual support for marginalized, including LGBTQ+, Muslims.
- Strands for Trans – Network of hair, beauty, and wellness industries and organizations that seek to create and inspire safe and positive experiences for all guests, especially guests from the trans community.
- LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory – Directory LGBTQ+ friendly healthcare providers.
Illinois Pride Groups
Aurora IL Pride
Belong in Fox Valley
Bolingbrook Pride
BG Pride
DeKalb Pride
Elgbtq+ Elgin Pride
Elmhurst Pride Collective
Equality Downers Grove
Evanston Pride
Homewood -Flossmoor Flair
Jacksonville Pride
Joliet Pride Network
Kankakee Area LGBTQ Network
KYC LGBTQ+ Center
Logan County Pride
Macomb Pride
Naper Pride
NWI Pride
Oak Park Area Lesbian and Gay Association
Ottawa Family Pride Festival
Out Mt. Vernon
Parkland Pride
Peoria Pride
Plainfield Pride
Pride in Action Southern Illinois
Rainbow Youth Eras – Beverly
River City Pride Peoria
Rockford Area Pride
Rockton Pride
Sauk Valley Pride
Skokie Pride
Southern Illinois Pride Collective
Springfield PrideFest
UP Center Champaign County
Waukegan Friends
Woodstock Pride
Youth Outlook
Gender Affirming Care Programs
Advocate Oak Lawn Pediatric Endocrinologist
Dr. Fred Ettner
Folx (online)
Get Plume (online)
Greater Family Health
Howard Brown Health Center
Lurie’s Children’s Hospital Gender Development Program, Northwestern Medicine
Planned Parenthood Illinois
Riverside Healthcare Kankakee, Dr. Uddin & Dr. Yap
Rush University Medical Center Affirm: The Center for Gender Sexuality and Reproductive Health
SIU Family Medicine Gender Equity and Transgender Clinic
UChicago Medicine Trans CARE Clinic
University of Illinois Health Gender and Sexuality Center
You can read past PFLAG Northern Illinois Open Doors Newsletters here.