The mission of the Office of LGBTQA Student Services is to create visibility, support, resources, education and awareness around LGBTQ issues and concerns.  Specific aims of the Resource Center include the following:

►     To provide a safe environment for LGBTQ students to gain support, understanding, and acceptance through referral to the availability of multicultural resources at DePaul and in Chicago and to an LGBTQ student mentoring program,

►        To educate the broader DePaul community through programming resources that explores LGBTQ issues, histories, cultures, and identities in an effort to address homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia and their inter-relatedness to race, ethnicity, religion, and culture,

►        To provide resources and referrals to address the very specific and unique needs of LGBTQ students, staff, and faculty and that recognize their racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, and

►       To represent and advocate around LGBTQ concerns to university offices, committees, programs, and departments.  The center would sustain and develop visibility, a sense of community, and knowledge of diverse LGBTQA identities and communities.