Dear Safe Schools Coalition Members and Friends:
CORRECTION: When we listed donors in an email to the listserve on November 9, we should have included gratitude to The Turnstone Fund at
the Seattle Foundation. Muchas gracias.
Then, as people power goes, we want to send out a huge thank you
to the members of the Leadership Team who stepped down this year, for their YEARS of amazing volunteer contributions to the Coalition. Kyle
Rapiñan and Marsha Botzer stepped down as Co-Chairs, Matt Munson as Co-Secretary (thank you to Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest for Matt's time), and Kathy Kaminski as Treasurer.
All four have been absolute rocks that make stuff happen! Kyle has planned events for the Coalition and served as spokesperson on many an occasion as well as a Trainer. Marsha has kept SSC in the forefront of national queer organizing. Matt
not only took meeting minutes but also sent thank you letters to donors and staffed a phone bank. Kathy has written Americorps applications and Workplace Giving applications to make sure the Coalition had the resources to make the work possible.
Second, let's hear a raucous hand
for the continuing members of the Leadership Team, Co-Chairs (all of whom facilitate SSC meetings): Frieda Takamura (retired teacher and WEA staff, represents SSC's interests
on the Washington State Achievement Gap Oversight and Accountability Committee, is an SSC Trainer, and manages SSC's emailed inquiries), Heather Murphy, PhD (a clinical psychologist with Shoreline Public Schools and adjunct faculty
at University of Washington, serves on the Membership Committee) and Stefanie Fox (formerly with King County Mental Health, Chemical Abuse and Dependency Services Division, currently with Jewish Voice for Peace) and me, Beth
Reis (health educator for Public Health -- Seattle & King County which donates about 50% of my time). And for the Co-Secretaries (all of whom record at meetings): Frank Couch (thank you to the Science and Management of Addictions -- SAMA
-- Foundation for Frank's time, managing most correspondence for the Coalition and leading specific crisis responses), Penny Palmer (retired teacher, who also serves as outreach volunteer and Intervention Chair and liaison to KCSARC), and
Heather Carter (thank you to Youth Suicide Prevention Program for Heather's time as both Co-Secretary and as a Trainer for the Coalition). And please welcome the Coalition's new Treasurer, Michelle Munro (Michelle
is also Board President at Summit Assistance Dogs and former Executive Director of Seattle Counseling).
Third, an equally huge thank you
to the wonderful person who has done the Coalition's books (for almost 3 years now), Carmen Yau, accountant for our fiscal agent, Lifelong AIDS Alliance.
We are SO grateful
to our two contractors, without whom the Safe Schools Coalition couldn't function, and both of whom have seen their hours cut this year: Briana Herman-Brand, Speakers' Bureau Manager
(who serves also as a Trainer and volunteers as SSC's representative to the Rapid Response Network and the National Safe Schools Roundtable) and Gabi Clayton, Web Spinner (who serves also as a Trainer and volunteers as a Speaker
for the Coalition, Membership Committee Chair and Listserv Staffer). (And thank you to James Bowman and Associates with whom we contracted for most of 2010 for Gabi's time.) Briana and Gabi are absolute troupers.
We
need your donations to keep these contracts going; please consider stepping it up in 2011.
Finally, but by no means least, these people serve as the backbone of the Coalition. Some work for member organizations, but their caring and effort goes above and beyond their agencies' contributions! Others are not on salary at
any agency to do Safe Schools Coalition work. They devote thousands of hours a year of personal volunteer time to helping schools become safe places through their efforts on behalf of the Safe Schools Coalition. Words don't do justice to how appreciative
the whole community should feel to these individuals:
- Jennifer Allen, Planned Parenthood of the Great NW, SSC Co-Chair of the Law & Policy Work Group
- Kristina Armenakis, SSC Trainer
- Janet Bogle, SSC Trainer/Outreach Staffer
- Joseph Bonnell, SSC Listserve Staffer (news digests)
- Tara Borelli, Lambda Legal, SSC Law & Policy Work Group
- Doris Brevoort, Turning Institute, SSC Intervention Specialist
- Ingrid Buchan, SSC Trainer/Outreach Staffer
- Barb Clark-Elliot, PFLAG-Seattle and SSC Trainer/Outreach Staffer
- Pam Crone, Legal Voice, SSC Law & Policy Work Group
- Nik Donia, SSC Listserve Staffer (event digests)
- Amy Durning, SSC Intervention Specialist
- Jennie Ehrenhalt, SSC Listserve Staffer (stepped down in 2010) and SSC Intervention Specialist
- Carol Ehrhart, advisor to the SSC Intervention Team
- Sue Ferguson, Lesbian and Gay Child Care Task Force, represents our families in the effort of the Center for the Improvement of Student Learning at OSPI to develop a tool with which districts can self-assess their family-friendliness
- Tracy Flynn, SSC Trainer
- Jim Fotter, Washington Education Association, SSC Intervention Specialist
- Josh Friedes, Equal Rights Washington, SSC Law & Policy Work Group
- Joyful Freeman, SSC Listserve Staffer (job/internship digests); in her role at AFSC which ended this summer, Joyful spent many years doing a TON of support for the Coalition in more ways that I could list here
- Selam Gebrekidan, SSC Trainer/Outreach Staffer
- Elizabeth Gill, ACLU Foundation of Northern California, helped edit SSC's National Law Quiz
- Diane Glenn, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, answers & dispatches crisis calls to SSC, via the hotline: 1-877-SAFE-SAFE
- Ben Ibale, Washington Education Association, ships all SSC publication orders, and supports the Coalition every way he can
- Lonnie Johns-Brown, Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, National Organization for Women, and Washington State Coalition against Domestic Violence, Co-Chair of the SSC Law & Policy Work Group
- Jan Johnson, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, answers & dispatches crisis calls to SSC, via the hotline: 1-877-SAFE-SAFE
- Emily Juhre, SSC Trainer/Outreach Staffer
- Meta Kitna, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, answers & dispatches crisis calls to SSC, via the hotline: 1-877-SAFE-SAFE
- Jacque Larrainzar, Seattle Office for Civil Rights, advisor to the SSC Intervention Team and web site
- Mark Nathan Lee, Vista Youth Center, SSC Law & Policy Work Group
- Nicole Lee, Planned Parenthood Association of Utah, SSC Listserve Staffer (monthly lesson planning guides … who will start soon)
- Carol Levin, Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, arranges for SSC meeting space and equipment every month
- Mo Lewis, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, attends SSC meetings on a regular basis
- Lisa Love, Seattle Public Schools, manages the district's own interventions into LGBTQ bullying and organizes the joint SSC/Seattle Public Schools contingent in the Seattle Pride Parade, and SSC Trainer
- Laura Lurry, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, leads the team of sexual assault resource line staff that take calls for SSC's crisis line -- 877-SAFE-SAFE
- Joseph Luther, helped with the SSC contingent in the Seattle Pride Parade and SSC Listserv Staffer (who stepped down in 2010)
- Robert Maillette, Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, provides Information Technology support for SSC meetings
- Linda Mangel, ACLU of Washington, SSC Law & Policy Work Group
- Willa Marth, Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, co-facilitated the SSC's Welcoming Schools Project Training-of-Organizers for Washington State this year
- Jan Mathis, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, answers & dispatches crisis calls to SSC, via the hotline: 1-877-SAFE-SAFE
- Steve McCallister, Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, provides Information Technology support for SSC meetings
- Tim McLeod, Planned Parenthood of the Great NW and SSC Trainer
- Mac McGregor, SSC Intervention Specialist
- Lauren Mehl, SSC Listserve Staffer (stepped down in 2010)
- Owen Morgan, Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, provides Information Technology support for SSC meetings
- Jill Mullins, QLaw Foundation, SSC Law & Policy Work Group
- Kathy O'Toole, Washington Education Association, drafted the SSC's National Law Quiz
- Brad A. Palmertree, GLSEN Tennessee and the Tennessee Equality Project, SSC Listserve Staffer (opinion digests)
- Trista Paulson, advisor to the SSC Intervention Team
- Shannon Perez-Darby, NW Network and SSC Trainer/Outreach Staffer
- Michael Profitt, Seattle University student, represented SSC at a Healthy Youth Alliance convening
- Liezl T. Rebugio, ACLU of Washington, SSC Law & Policy Work Group
- Tiffany Richardson, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, answers & dispatches crisis calls to SSC, via the hotline: 1-877-SAFE-SAFE
- Ann Priebe-Smith, SSC Intervention Specialist
- Jennifer St. Pierre, SSC Intervention Specialist
- Scott Sankey, Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, provides Information Technology support for SSC meetings
- Ryan Schwartz, SSC Listserve Staffer (right wing watch digests)
- Sue Shaffer, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, answers & dispatches crisis calls to SSC, via the hotline: 1-877-SAFE-SAFE
- Michael Simpson, National Education Association, helped edit SSC's National Law Quiz
- Robin Singer, SSC Intervention Specialist
- Rachel Smith-Mosel, represents our families' voices on the Parent Advisory Committee of the Governor's Office of the Education Ombudsman and in the effort of the Center for the Improvement of Student Learning at OSPI to develop
a tool with which districts can self-assess their family-friendliness
- Landon Steinbrueck Tan, SSC Trainer/Outreach Staffer
- Stephanie Taylor, SSC Trainer/Outreach Staffer
- Danielle Tovar, represents our families' voices on the Parent Advisory Committee of the Governor's Office of the Education Ombudsman
- Maya Troll, SSC Listserve Staffer (who stepped down in 2010)
- Jill Van Glubt, Washington Education Association, coordinated writing of SSC's National Law Quiz and staffed a phone bank
- Norm Walker, Educational Service District 105 and Washington School Counselor Association, SSC Law & Policy Work Group
- Robyn Walters, SSC Listserve Staffer (news digest back-up)
- Kim Westheimer, Human Rights Campaign, Welcoming Schools Project, led the SSC's Welcoming Schools training-of-organizers for Washington State this year
- Crystal Ybarra, SSC Trainer/Outreach Staffer
And 28 young people who served on panels co-sponsored with American Friends Service Committee.
For the whole community, thank you all so much, and for those who helped the Coalition as part of your jobs, thank you to your supervisors! Please forward this to them and tell them the Coalition
couldn't have functioned without you.
And have a very Happy Thanksgiving.
Beth Reis, Public Health Educator
Public Health -- Seattle & King County
SSC Co-Chair
NOTE: Apologies if I missed anyone. Please do let me know. I will be sending an addendum before the end of the year.
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