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Volunteering with Us

June, 2004, Seattle: A high school drama troupe (shown here) offered a public performance of the Laramie Project, followed by a Q&A time.  The proceeds went to Safe Schools Coalition.  Your drama class or choir or band could do the same!

"I live outside Washington State" Here are your options:

• Become a "resource checker" ... Donate a couple of hours a month helping to keep the resources listed on our web site current. If you are a school counselor, you might take responsibility for the counselors' page, for instance. If you are especially interested in intersex issues, you might take responsibility for that page. Or you might just keep our resources for your county, state,  province or continent up-to-date! Your choose the page you care most about and you check periodically to make sure the links and contact info are still current. You review books, videos, websites, etc. and recommend resources to add to (or delete from) your page. Contact Gabi Clayton at: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/contact/?id=11

• Become a "fundraiser" ... Donate time on a one-time basis organizing a yard sale, a bake sale, a house party or a 5-K run/walk to raise funds to help the Coalition. Maybe the funds will be specifically to pay expenses to bring a Safe Schools Coalition training team to your town, or maybe you just appreciate the Coalition' listserv, website, training, advocacy and print resources and you want to help us keep up that work! Contact Beth Reis at: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/contact/?id=1

• Become a "speaker/trainer" ... Plan and co-facilitate workshops for non-profit agencies, youth and other community members on LGBTQ issues. Speakers may use the Safe Schools Coalition "Understanding and Addressing Anti-LGBTQ Harassment and Violence in Schools" workshop module or adapt materials to fit audience needs. Volunteers should have previous experience speaking in front of audiences, an anti-oppression framework, general knowledge of LGBT and safe schools issues, flexible work schedule, and willingness to work with other speakers. Potential volunteers must attend a 1 day training.

• Become a "outreach volunteer/tabler"... Help students, teachers and parents access Safe Schools Coalition trainings, technical assistance and intervention services by representing the coalition tabling at health fairs, school and community events and Pride celebrations! We can't get the word out without you! Must attend 2-hour outreach team training offered 3 times a year. One-year commitment.

Find out more about the Speaker's Bureau and outreach work here: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/speakersbureau/

For more information, contact Briana Herman-Brand at: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/contact/?id=9 or call her at 206-451-SAFE (7233).

"I live in Washington State"  In addition to the options above, here is another:

• Become an "intervention specialist" ... Probably the most important role the Safe Schools Coalition serves is to advocate on behalf of individual students and families and educators, when they are experiencing harassment or violence at school because they are -- or someone thinks they are -- gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Donate one day per week to be "on-call"� (check email and be available to a phone) and actually spend an average of 1-4 hours per month providing crisis support, problem-solving, referral and other creative support (contacting someone's principal or superintendent with or for them; sitting with them while they make a police report; arranging a training through the Coalition's speakers' bureau). QUALIFICATIONS: B.A. in education, counseling, social work, or equivalent. Age 21+. Prefer experience working in schools, but that is negotiable. Interested? Contact Intervention Team Chair Penny Palmer: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/contact/?id=16

Come to a Safe Schools Coalition meeting where lots of needs for help are expressed and you can meet folks and ask questions. Interested? Click here for meeting times, locations and directions: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/meet_who_when_where.html

Subscribe to the Coalition's NEWS listserv and you will receive a "YOUR HELP NEEDED" messages about what you can do to help ... from speaking to the media, to participating in a survey or research project, to data entry on behalf of a member organization. To subscribe, click here: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/listsub.asp#subscribe and choose "NEWS."

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