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The Safe Schools Coalition Speakers Bureau - Washington State & U.S.: Need training for students or staff? The Safe Schools Coalition offers 1-2.5 hour workshops for students, educators and communities entitled "Understanding and Addressing Anti-Gay Harassment and Violence in Schools" and "Understanding and Addressing Malicious Harassment and Violence in Schools." We can also offer longer, more skill-based training for schools, tailored to their specific needs regarding bullying and harassment in schools and/or sexual diversity in schools. We serve the state of Washington, but can travel elsewhere if costs are covered. Within the state, donations are encouraged, but not required. Web site: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org Contact Helen Stillman, our speakers bureau manager, through the web contact form: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/contact/?id=19 or call her at 206-632-0662 ext 49.
Meet our trainers: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/trainers/trainers-ofSSC.html.
Trainers & Speakers Stories from Safe Schools Coalition - http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/trainers/Trainers&SpeakersStories-FromSSC.html
Challenging
Homophobia: this tool by Duncan Gibbs is for middle and high school teachers, staff, and providers. Users draw on their own experience and the information provided here to strengthen their skills for intervening against homophobia in the
classroom. This interactive workshop takes you through a discussion of what constitutes prejudice and how it manifests against the Lesbian/ Gay/ Bisexual/ Transgender community. Exercises help you think through your own experience with homophobia and come up with personalized strategies for intervening against homophobia next time you encounter it.
Web site: http://www.challenginghomophobia.net
…
Adult
The
Early Faces of Violence: From Schoolyard Bullying and Ridicule to Sexual
Harassment:
a seven-part, legally-based video education program for pre-kindergarten
through 6th grade students, parents, and educators. Particularly good is the
very clear, concise, video for principals and other administrative folks,
featuring the school attorney who founded the program. McGrath Systems, Inc.,
3905 State Street, #7, PMB 211, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Phone: 805-882-1212; Web site:
http://www.mcgrathinc.com
Ending
Anti-Gay Bias in Schools: training-of-trainers
manual – 2001, GLSEN. Provides educators and activists with a resource for
preparing new facilitators to conduct anti-bias workshops in their local
communities. The manual includes an agenda for conducting your own two-day TOT
and comes complete with detailed instructions, handouts and surveys. The
training is designed in conjunction with the GLSEN Lunchbox, but offers a
variety of strategies and resources that can be adapted to fit any training
program. Phone: 1-800-247-6553; Web site: http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/library/record/580.html
… Adult
Gay,
Lesbian, and Straight Education Network of Colorado:
web site rich with resources: http://www.glsenco.org
… High School - Adult
The
GLSEN Lunchbox: A Comprehensive Training Program for Ending Anti-Gay Bias in
Schools:
A comprehensive training program – 2000, GLSEN. It offers a menu of
exercises and activities aimed at providing educators with the background
knowledge, skills and tools necessary to build awareness of LGBT issues and
develop more inclusive school environments. Phone: 1-800-247-6553; Web site: http://www.atlasbooks.com/glsen/ordercur.htm
… Adult
Guidelines for Identifying Bias in Curriculum and Materials: from the Safe Schools Coalition. This two sided poster/handout looks at stereotypes, language, omission, exclusion and perspective. http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/identifyingbias.html
“Guide
to Leading Introductory Workshops on Homophobia”:
46 page manual, from the Campaign to End Homophobia. Includes background
information, techniques, and activities so that someone with little experience
as a facilitator can successfully lead introductory workshops on homophobia.
The content focuses on homophobia as a form of oppression. P.O. Box 382401,
Cambridge, MA 02238-2401; Email: bszoloth@aol.com;
Web site: http://www.endhomophobia.org/Materials.html
Identity/Expression Activity: learning what it feels like to hide who you are: by Caroline Gould adapted from various sources and used by the Massachusetts Department of Education's Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students. http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/Identity_Expression_exercise.pdf (pdf format)
Internalized Homophobia/Transphobia …Homophilia/Transphilia: A Model: By Beth Reis, © 1990, revised 2008, with gratitude to professor Dorothy Riddle, Ph.D., on whose model for heterosexuals’ experience of homophobia this is based (www.wiu.edu/ucoso/riddle.htm) A description of the eight stages: Repulsion, Pity, Tolerance, Acceptance, Solidarity, Admiration, Appreciation, and Celebration. http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/InternalizedHomophobia_Reis’VersionofRiddle.pdf (pdf format)
It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School: 78 min. video with viewing guide; 30 min version for training events also available, Spanish subtitled version available, all versions closed-captioned – 1996, Women’s Educational Media. Award-winning documentary is a must-see for parents and educators of young children. It shows real teachers addressing gay stereotypes, two-mom families, etc. in age-appropriate ways in elementary and middle school classrooms. Phone: 415-641-4616; GroundSpark (formerly Women's Educational Media) http://www.groundspark.org/. Institutional orders through New Day Films, 22D Hollywood Ave, Hohokus, NJ 07423; Phone: 1-888-367-9154, Email: orders@newday.com ... Adult
Suggestions On Keeping Classroom Debates About Civil Marriage Civil: a handout by Beth Reis of Public Health - Seattle & King County, co-chair of Safe Schools Coalition. Suggestions for setting ground rules and structuring the debate. http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/KeepingClassroomDebatesAboutCivilMarriageCivil.pdf (pdf format)
Lesbian Teenagers in High School: 23 minute video features interviews with a racially diverse group of lesbian young women ages 15-19 as well as a teacher who advises a Gay-Straight Alliance. They discuss hurtful and supportive experiences with teachers and fellow students. They touch upon issues specific to African-American young women. The film is simple and powerful. Teens should see it as well as teachers, counselors, and other school employees. OutLoud Films, PO Box 20121, Cincinnati, OH 45220; Phone: 513-257-7865; Email: norahmail@aol.com ... High School-Adult
National S.E.E.D. Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity & Diversity): a staff-development equity project for educators establishes teacher-led, faculty-centered faculty development seminars in public and private schools throughout the U.S. and in English-speaking international schools. A week-long SEED Summer Leaders' Workshop prepares school teachers (usually one or two in a building or district) to hold year-long reading groups with other teachers to discuss making school curricula more gender-fair and multiculturally equitable [inclusive of LGBTQ cultures] in all subject areas. http://www.wcwonline.org/seed/
Not Round Here: Affirming Diversity,
Challenging Homophobia ~ a Rural Service Providers Training
Manual: This rich, well-written trainers' manual by Kenton Penley
Miller & Mahamati of Outlink, a project of the Human Rights and Equal
Opportunity Commission (Australia), is available free, in pdf form, at: http://www.hreoc.gov.au/pdf/human_rights/Not_round_here.pdf
[© Copyright Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 2000. Anyone may
copy, extract from or quote from the kit without any obligation to seek the
Commission's permission or acknowledge the Commission - as long as the source
of the training is acknowledged.]
(pdf format)
Respecting the Rights of GLBTQ Youth, A Responsibility of Youth-Serving Professionals: This entire issue of Advocates for Youth's journal Transitions (Vol. 14 June 2002) is worth reading. The contents include: 3Rs & GLBTQ Youth, Latino YMSM, Stressors for GLBTQ Youth, Transgender Youth, Harassment in School, Serving HIV-Positive Youth, Youth Activism, Coming Out?, Creating Inclusive Programs, Emergency Contraception, Abstinence-Only Education, Bill of Rights, and GLBTQ Youth of Color. For the pdf version, go to: http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/transitions/transitions1404.pdf (pdf format) or, for html, go to: http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/transitions/transitions1404.htm
Safe Schools Public Service Announcements: One videotape containing three emotionally powerful 30-second Emmy-nominated pieces – Safe Schools Coalition of Washington. Useful for capturing an audience with the sobriety of the subject in the beginning of a continuing education workshop. Safe Schools Coalitions in other parts of the country are invited to insert their local contact number, in place of ours, at the end. Available free on ordinary videotape (for broadcast quality tapes in other formats, there is a charge). Phone: 206-252-0982; Email: LLove@seattleschools.org … Adult
Speaking For Ourselves: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Youth: 27 min. video - Puts an ethnically diverse and wonderfully human face on the issue, through the stories (in their own words) of sexual minority youth from Washington State. Includes some of their parents' perspectives. Diversity Productions, 216 - 30th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122. Phone: 206-720-1744; Web site: http://speakingforourselves.com/index.htm; Email: johncmifsud@earthlink.net ... Middle School - Adult Print an order form to mail with your check: here (in pdf format).
Tools
For Caring: 17
minute video – 2000, Mary-Helen Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer.
School nurses – and every other health care provider – should see this
video. Contains discussions with physicians and interviews with a diverse
group of lesbians describing their experiences with barriers to accessing
health care services. Easy to understand its implications beyond cancer and
beyond lesbians. $25.00 plus $6.00 shipping and handling. Email: mautner@mautnerproject.org
Phone: 202-332-5536; Order form on web site: http://www.mautnerproject.org/images/form.pdf
(pdf format) … Nurses and Clinic Staff
We Are ... GBLTQ: 42 minute DVD
that was produced by
the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Children’s
Administration, the Washington State Department of Information Services and Project Coordinator, Evonne Hedgepeth, Ph.D. (Phone / Fax:
360-352-9980,
evonne@lifespaneducation.com; http://www.lifespaneducation.com/) who is
available to speak with it at training events and conferences around the
country. It’s easily the BEST video about LGBTQ youth in recent memory. It’s
about LGBTQ youth in foster care, featuring the wonderfully articulate,
diverse voices of a dozen or so LGBTQ current and former foster kids, with
guest appearances by some adult experts. It’s an excellent training tool
intended for case workers, foster parents and others serving out-of-home
youth, but absolutely great too for school counselors, nurses, social workers,
teachers, physicians, parents …any adult who cares about youth…and for any
youth in the child welfare system. To order free copies while they last,
contact Marianne K. Ozmun at
ozmk300@dshs.wa.gov - 360-902-7928 or Carolyn Jones at
zoca300@dshs.wa.gov - 360-902-0215. Also, the video and an accompanying
discussion guide are both available online at the Foster Parent Website at
http://www.dshs.wa.gov/ca/fosterparents/onGoingVid.asp - The video
appears second from the bottom from this list. The discussion guide is
available at
http://www.dshs.wa.gov/pdf/ca/We Are GLBTQ Discussion and Resource Guide.pdf
(pdf format)
Also, watch
We are GLBTQ online (42 min) at:
http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/video/ca/New%20GLBTQ.asx
A World of Difference: training and curriculum about prejudice from the Anti-Defamation League. A national network of trainers can train your staff and students, but note that some World of Difference trainers address homophobia (at least at your request) and some do not. Interview your training team, before agreeing to organize or attend a workshop. Find your regional office: http://www.adl.org/awod/awod_institute.asp or contact ADL National. Phone: 212-885-7700; Web site: http://www.adl.org/awod/awod_institute.html … Grades K-12 and Educators
Youth Suicide Prevention Program: Training is available that focuses on GLBTQ youth and the issues they face. These trainings are for service providers that want more information about suicide prevention and early intervention, more information on why GLBTQ youth are at an increased risk for suicide and self harm, and how they can best support these youth to increase their protective factors against suicide and self harm. YSPP envisions Washington as a state where youth suicide is a rare event, where young people are nurtured and supported, where individuals and families are aware of risk factors for suicide, and actively seek help from accessible, effective community resources. To that end, they focus on public awareness, training, and communities in action. Contact Heather Carter, GLBTQ Project Coordinator, Youth Suicide Prevention Program; Phone: 206-297-5922 Ext. 116; Email: Heather@yspp.org; Address: 444 NE Ravenna Blvd., #401, Seattle, WA 98115; Phone: (206) 297-5922; Fax: (206) 297-0818; General email: info@yspp.org; Website: http://www.yspp.org/
Zero Indifference: A How-to Guide to Ending Name-Calling in Schools: This very thorough handout for use in trainings with education professionals is now available on GLSEN's website in html format: http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/library/record/850.html or in pdf format (14 pages): http://www.glsen.org/binary-data/GLSEN_ATTACHMENTS/file/189-1.pdf (pdf format)
