Subject: strictly fyi: bullying, HIV, homelessness
From: "Reis, Beth" <Beth.Reis@kingcounty.gov>
Date: 12/28/2011 7:52 AM
To: NEWS@safeschoolscoalition.org

Dear Safe Schools Coalition members and friends:
Thank you all for your support in 2011. You can help us wind up the year with a strong showing of support. Are you feeling fortunate for family and friends? For a safe place to live, work and go to school? These last few days of 2011 would be a great time to show your gratitude for what you have by helping out the Safe Schools Coalition. Your gift lets us provide training and electronic resources for schools and families, students and other activists all over the world. Click HERE to donate now.
(1) Bully at the Blackboard: Every adult in the building needs to act when the bully is a teacher
(2) 3-minute TV piece featuring HIV-positive young person on the staff at DC's Metro Teen AIDS … that might inspire students to get tested
(3) ACTION ITEM: ugly case of HIV-related discrimination 
(4) Young, Gay And Homeless: Fighting For Resources
 
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(1) Bully at the Blackboard: Every adult in the building needs to act when the bully is a teacher.
 
From the fall 2011 issue of Teaching Tolerance, a publication of Southern Poverty Law Center, see the article here: http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-40-fall-2011/bully-blackboard
 
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(2) 3-minute TV piece featuring HIV-positive young person on the staff at DC's Metro Teen AIDS … that might inspire students to get tested
 
Go to: http://www.bet.com/video/106andpark/highlights/106park826-highlight-s1.html
 
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(3) ACTION ITEM: ugly case of HIV-related discrimination 
 
Go to: http://www.change.org/petitions/great-expressions-dental-centers-must-apologize-for-harassing-and-firing-hiv-employee?alert_id=vcRldIqkac_fbHrMlrfzI&utm_medium=email&utm_source=action_alert
 
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(4) Young, Gay And Homeless: Fighting For Resources
 
This November 20, 2011 NPR Weekend Edition Sunday audio interview and article by Margot Adler is about the studies and stories of homeless youth in New York City and other big cities where, depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. It is also about organizations that serve homeless LGBTQ youth: New York City based Safe Horizon's Streetwork Project and The Ali Forney Center. http://www.npr.org/2011/11/20/142364493/young-gay-and-homeless-fighting-for-resources
 
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