Subject: HELP NEEDED & fyi: prom rights, violence against women, sexual assault, sex education & youth of color, AIDS, sex myths, lesson planning for June
From: "Reis, Beth" <Beth.Reis@kingcounty.gov>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 11:28:49 -0700
To: IMPORTANTNEWS@safeschoolscoalition.org

Dear Safe Schools Coalition Members and Friends:
 
Happy Pride Month
 
(1) Take the ACLU of Washington's prom rights quiz
(2) National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women updates their web site
(3) Sexual Assault Response Team Toolkit
(4) Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2009: Sex Ed and Youth: Colonization, Sexuality and Communities of Colour
(5) cool web site with videos: Together We Are Greater Than AIDS
(6) MTV's "Top 10 most outrageous sex myths"
(7) lesson planning guide for June
(8) HELP NEEDED
 
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(1) Take the ACLU of Washington's prom rights quiz
 
Go to: http://www.aclu-wa.org/quiz-are-you-ready-prom
 
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(2) National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women updates their web site
 
Newly updated, the wide variety of resources available on the VAWnet website are now easier to find.  In addition, VAWnet has added a section called TA of the Month, which includes information, resources, and space for discussions on a new topic every month.
 
Go to: http://www.vawnet.org/
 
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(3) Sexual Assault Response Team Toolkit
 
Sexual violence affects many aspects of a victim's lifeincluding safety and health, family and work situations, and financesand often leads to perplexing legal questions. To receive basic assistance, victims often must navigate a complicated maze of governmental and community agencies. SARTs, or sexual assault response teams, help victims through the maze.
 
The SART Toolkit is a resource both for communities considering a SART response and communities that already have a coordinated response but want to make it better. Use it. Share it. Make it your own.
 
Go to: http://ovc.ncjrs.gov/sartkit/index.html
 
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(4) Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2009: Sex Ed and Youth: Colonization, Sexuality and Communities of Colour
 
In this issue of OS/OS, editor Jessica Yee unravels the seemingly impenetrable and often unquestioned connections between youth, sex education, the impacts of colonization and the realities of communities of colour. With contributions from several youth of colour and a section written by (and for) allies, this issue delves deeply into the trenches of what's happened, what's still not working, and what needs to take place for equitable sex education to become a reality for the next generation. Up-front, in-your-face, and unapologetic, Sex Ed and Youth: Colonization, Sexuality and Communities of Colour provides readers with a powerful lens of truth. It shares the many perspectives of youth who are not only confronting their history of colonization head-on, they are breaking new ground to continue the fight.
 
$12. Go to: http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/ourschools-ourselves/our-schoolsour-selves-winter-2009
 
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(5) cool web site with videos: Together We Are Greater Than AIDS
 
Enter your zip code to find the closest place for HIV testing.
Free posters.
Free one-minute video promotes getting tested.
Share this in your class, your GSA, your LGBT youth support group, your clinic waiting room!
Go to: http://www.greaterthan.org/decidingmoments/
 
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(6) MTV's "Top 10 most outrageous sex myths"
 
Free 22-minute online video with lots of celebs debunking myths! But beware, parts are too racy (though blurred) for most in-school audiences.
And lots of other tools.
Go to: http://www.itsyoursexlife.com/gyt/know/top-10-most-outrageous-sex-myths/
 
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(7) lesson planning guide for June
 
We (the Safe Schools Coalition) believe all students, regardless of their own or their families' sexual orientations or gender identities, need to know about the sexual diversity in their school community and the wider world ... just as they all need to know about racial and religious diversity.
 
This guide hasn't been updated since June 2009, so some links are dead, but in it you will find some timeless stuff, too:
 
Go to: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/history/LGBT_historyJune.pdf
 
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(8) HELP NEEDED
 
HELP NEEDED: We still need one more volunteer listserv staffer to take over sending monthly lesson planning guides (like the one in item #7, above). The job will take 4-8 hours/month.  Interested? Contact Beth: mailto:beth@safeschoolscoalition.org
 
 
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