Chile has one of the highest rates of youth suicide in Latin America and the second-highest increase in suicide rates among member countries of the OECD. In regard to LGBT children and youth, Chile lacks both qualitative and quantitative research concerning discrimination and suicidal tendencies among this vulnerable group. However, statistics from the United States of America serve as a reference point and indicate that LGBT children and youth suffer the brunt of school-based discrimination and are almost 5 times as likely to commit suicide than their heterosexual counterparts (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2016).

Amidst an ever-increasingly alarming context characterized by a lack of accessible public services in health and education, further aggravated by a lack of knowledgeable officials, the Todo Mejora Foundation Chile was founded in 2013 to promote the well-being of children, adolescents, and young people who suffer violence because of their sexual orientation, identity, and gender expression.

During the past 7 years, Todo Mejora Foundation Chile has worked with an innovative intervention strategy that, on the one hand, provides psychological and emotional support to those children, adolescents, and young people who suffer discrimination-based violence and, on the other hand, fosters community and inclusion through education in relation to topics concerning SOGIE.

Todo Mejora Chile launched the first nation-wide LGBT virtual helpline that has attended over 10,000 people in regard to mental health concerns, trained over 10,000 professionals in the fields of mental health and education, published ground-breaking research concerning discrimination-based violence experienced by children and young people due to SOGIE, provided technical consultancy to decision-makers, successfully reached millions of young people and their families through social and conventional media and increased its operational budget by a figure of almost 4,500% since 2013.