Dear Safe Schools Coalition Members and Friends:
(1) Scholarships for LGBTQA Youth … apply between Dec 10 & Feb 11
(2) Statement from King County Executive and King County Board of Health Chair on new, local campaign by tobacco company to recruit young smokers *
(3) Comic book about smoking from the Healthy Aboriginal Network *
(4) Tomorrow, December 1, is International World AIDS Day
* NOTE TO GSA ADVISORS & STUDENT LEADERSHIP: Smoking is disproportionately prevalent among queer youth. [Saewyc, E. (2011, in press). Research on Adolescent
Sexual Orientation: Development, Health Disparities, Stigma and Resilience. Journal of Research on Adolescence.]
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(1) Scholarships for LGBTQA Youth … apply between Dec 10 & Feb 11
Point Foundation (
www.pointfoundation.org) is the nation's largest scholarship granting organization for LGBTQA students of merit. Point provides financial support, mentoring, leadership
training and hope to meritorious students who are marginalized due to sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
Point Foundation provides an annual average scholarship of over $8,000 for up to 4 years; supports graduate as well as undergraduate students; pays for room, board, etc in addition to tuition; assigns each scholar a personal mentor; provides a formal leadership
training conference each year; and offers alumni an opportunity to continue to support current scholars.
Point's 2011-2012 online scholarship application opens on December 10, 2010 at
www.pointfoundation.org and will close on February 11, 2011.
You can also recommend a deserving student at
www.pointfoundation.org/recommendastudent.html. Point Foundation hopes today's LGBTQA students continue their
leadership in the future, and with your assistance we can help these great students reach their potential through Point's support.
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(2) Statement from King County Executive and King County Board of Health Chair on new, local campaign by tobacco company to recruit young smokers
November 30, 2010
Contact: James Apa 206-205-5442
Camel brand cigarettes, which is owned by RJ Reynolds, has launched a new marketing campaign to recruit young smokers that exploits the image and vitality of the Seattle area to sell a highly addictive, deadly product. Smoking is the leading cause of disease
and premature death in King County and Washington state.
The Camel campaign includes the roll-out of special edition packs featuring 10 cities, including Seattle. The Seattle campaign highlights the local music and coffee culture to appeal to youth, and the packs depict local images, including Pike Place Market
and Mt. Rainier. The 1998 state tobacco settlement explicitly prohibits the marketing of tobacco to children.
King County Executive Dow Constantine and King County Board of Health Chair Julia Patterson are issuing statements in opposition to this campaign.
“As a lifelong Seattleite, I’m offended by this multinational corporation appropriating our iconic regional images and culture to rope young people into deadly tobacco addiction,” said King County Executive Dow Constantine. “Campaigns like these that target
youth and young adults threaten the progress we’ve made to reduce smoking and smoking-related illnesses and deaths in King County. I’m calling on Camel to stop this campaign and to not send these exploitative packs to the shelves of our businesses.”
“We’ve cut the smoking rate in half in just the last decade in King County, and it has proved its worth in lives and money saved,” said King County Board of Health Chair Julia Patterson. “We can’t take a step backward by allowing predatory marketing campaigns
to lure kids into tobacco addiction.”
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(3) Comic book about smoking from the Healthy Aboriginal Network
"Smoking prevention - River Run" is the story of a group of youth that learn the traditional use of tobacco while on a canoe trip. One of the youth, who smokes, gets her world opened up along the way. Comics cost $3-5 depending upon
the quantity you order.
The Healthy Aboriginal Network materials are for a general audience of aboriginal youth, inclusive of LGBT youth, but not exclusively two-spirited.
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(4) Tomorrow, December 1, is International World AIDS Day
You can celebrate by talking about HIV with your friends, students, colleagues, and family. Let's remind people there still is no cure.
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Or mail this form with your check made to "Safe Schools Coalition":
Safe Schools Coalition c/o Lifelong AIDS Alliance
Attn: Carmen Yau
1002 E. Seneca
Seattle, WA 98122-4203
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