The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project is the leading and only accredited national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ people under the age of 25. The Trevor Project offers a suite of crisis intervention and suicide prevention programmes, including TrevorLifeline, TrevorText, and TrevorChat as well as a peer-to-peer social network support for LGBTQ young people under the age of 25, TrevorSpace. The Trevor Project also offers an education programme with resources for youth-serving adults and organisations, a legislative advocacy department fighting for pro-LGBTQ legislation and against anti-LGBTQ rhetoric/policy positions, and conducts research to discover the most effective means to help young LGBTQ people in crisis and end suicide. Following the donation from Burberry, The Trevor Project will ensure that all its crisis services are available 24/7, creating a new internal system which will support its existing Lifeline, chat and text services. The charity will also plug into new platforms to make crisis services more readily available to young people, such as Facebook Messenger and direct messages on Instagram. This expansion in availability of the services will inevitably lead to an increased demand, so the funding will also support the recruitment and training of new volunteers.