Dr. Amy Green
Research
(she/her)
Data makes
a difference.
We believe that research has the opportunity to save lives and reveal problems that need solving.
We believe that research has the opportunity to save lives and reveal problems that need solving.
We are committed to producing innovative research that brings knowledge and clinical implications to the field of suicide research. To accomplish this we monitor, analyze, and evaluate data collected from LGBTQ young people.
LGBTQ youth in the South had greater odds of a past-year suicide attempt compared to those in other regions of the U.S. The data also shows that LGBTQ youth in the South reported having less access to LGBTQ acceptance and affirming spaces.
Read The Research BriefMuch of the current research on intersex communities focuses on medical treatment — and lumps all intersex youth in with trans, nonbinary, and other gender variant youth — leaving findings specific to intersex young people, and their mental health, largely unknown. This report uses data from a national sample of over 1,000 intersex youth ages 13-24 and grows our understanding of the mental health and well-being of this often overlooked group.
Read The Research BriefNearly half of LGBTQ youth in rural areas and small towns stated that their community was somewhat or very unaccepting of LGBTQ people compared to just over a quarter of those in urban and suburban areas.
Read The Research BriefNegative treatment by others, such as bullying, is a strong and consistent risk factor for youth suicide, and LGBTQ youth experience bullying at significantly greater rates than their straight and cisgender peers.
Read The Research BriefAlthough nearly one in three LGBTQ young people reported participating in sports, a number of LGBTQ youth reported choosing not to participate in sports due to reasons related to discrimination.
Read The Research BriefThis brief explores the inclusion of LGBTQ people or LGBTQ issues, as well as suicide prevention, in middle and high school curriculums.
Read the Research BriefWe, currently, don’t have additional capacity to partner on research studies or papers. We anticipate this changing at some point in the future as the Research team grows.
Vice President of Research
Dr. Amy Green (she/her) is Vice President of Research at The Trevor Project. Her team supports the organization’s life-saving work by using internal and external data and research findings to advance its crisis services and peer support programs, as well as advocacy and education initiatives. Under Dr. Green’s leadership, the research team produces innovative research that brings new clinical implications to the field of suicidology and LGBTQ mental health, and which enables the organization to better understand the lives of LGBTQ youth and suicidality. In addition to leading The Trevor Project’s annual National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health, her team publishes multiple research reports per year, plus monthly research briefs that help inform the work of LGBTQ youth serving agencies and mental health organizations.
She has spent nearly 20 years conducting research related to youth mental health and well-being. Prior to joining The Trevor Project, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego where her research focused on using implementation science to reduce disparities for LGBTQ youth. She also served as a core investigator at the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center, a consortium of over 100 investigators and staff from multiple academic institutions conducting cutting edge research focused on improving mental health services for children and families.
Dr. Green has published over 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has been funded by numerous national agencies including the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the William T. Grant Foundation. Her primary research interests include understanding and promoting resilience among LGBTQ youth, examining the social context of suicide risk, and utilizing implementation science to increase the positive impact of programs, policies, and practices to reduce disparities for LGBTQ youth.
Senior Research Scientist
Myeshia Price (she/they) is a Senior Research Scientist at The Trevor Project. Dr. Price has more than fifteen years of experience in adolescent public health research, with a focus on sexuality, gender, and LGBTQ youth from an intersectional perspective. After completing their Ph.D. in developmental psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with research focusing on predicting early sexual behaviors during adolescence, they were an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Old Westbury prior to taking a postdoctoral research associate position at the Center for Innovative Public Health Research (CiPHR). Her primary research interest areas include developmental understandings of adolescent gender and sexuality and reducing LGBTQ youth mental health disparities with a particular focus on the role of protective factors.
Research Scientist
Jonah DeChants (he/him/his) is a Research Scientist at The Trevor Project. Prior to joining Trevor, he completed his Ph.D. in Social Work at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work in 2019 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Colorado State University’s School of Social Work. His scholarship uses community-based research methods to study the resilience and service needs of young adults experiencing homelessness, particularly those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer. He has taught courses on policy analysis and incorporating social justice into social work practice.
Jonah previously worked for the Philadelphia Department of Human Services, supervising a federal planning grant which examined risk and protective factors of homelessness among youth aging out of foster care. He also worked for the LGBT Center at the University of Pennsylvania and Seeding Change, of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Jonah earned his Master of Social Policy from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice and his Bachelor of Arts from Kalamazoo College. He is also an alum of the AmeriCorps VISTA Program.
Ashley B. Taylor (she/her) is an International Research Manager at The Trevor Project. She completed her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies at Iowa State University with research focusing on the role of family and microaggressions on psychological intimate partner violence and identity development among LGBTQ emerging adults. Ashley previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia where she led the Canadian Trans Youth Health Survey and worked on the World Health Organization Global Survey of Expert Opinion on School Health Services and the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children sex and gender pilot study. Her research focuses on improving the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ youth by concentrating on various topics including intimate partner violence, mental and physical health, family rejection and support, microaggressions, and policy implications.
