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About Us
Our Mission ~ Our Role ~ Our History
Our Leadership ~ Our Member Organizations ~ Our Donors ~ Our Volunteers
Our Mailing Address for Information ~ Our Mailing Address for Finances ~ Our Mailing Address for Membership
Our Crisis Phone ~ Our Message Phone ~ Our Email Addresses

Our Mission:

The Safe Schools Coalition is an international public-private partnership in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth, that is working to help schools - at home and all over the world - become safe places where every family can belong, where every educator can teach, and where every child can learn, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.

Our Role:

We used to be the 'Safe Schools Coalition of Washington,' but now we proudly serve a world-wide constituency -- with some services specifically for our Washington members. Our role is to reduce bias-based bullying and violence in schools and to help schools better meet the needs of sexual minority youth and children with sexual minority parents/guardians locally, nationally and internationally, by ...

  1. providing resources to schools (posters, publications),

  2. raising parent/guardian, student, educator and community awareness (list serve, website, public speaking, media),

  3. providing skill-based training for educators (administrators and other professional and paraprofessional staff),

  4. serving as a technical advisory resource (to researchers, policy-makers, educators and activists -- students, parents/guardians, community members), and

  5. conducting and disseminating research (to educators, policy-makers and activists).

The Safe Schools Coalition also serves the community within Washington State by ...

  1. intervening and advocating on behalf of individual students, educators and families experiencing sexual orientation/identity-based harassment and violence, and

  2. holding legislators, school boards and school administrators accountable for making schools safe and free of bias-based bullying and violence, through community organizing and principled activism.

Our History:   top of page

1988 -- Seattle Commission on Children and Youth holds hearings on the needs of gay and lesbian youth in Seattle 1988 -- the Commission issues a report including twenty-one recommendations for addressing those needs and convenes an ad hoc “Advisory Committee on Gay/Lesbian Youth and Schools” to offer technical assistance to the school district in implementing the recommendations that are school-specific 1989-1990 -- The Advisory Committee: 1991 -- The Advisory Committee, since has gradually begun serving a wider geographic area than Seattle, spins off from the Seattle Commission, becoming the "Schools Committee" of the American Friends Service Committee's GLBT Youth Program 1991 – The Schools Committee: 1992 – The Schools Committee: 1993 – The Schools Committee, now working for statewide school safety, spins off once again, becoming the "Safe Schools Coalition of Washington"

1993-1998 -- the Safe Schools Coalition:

Fall 2001 – In recognition of our growing e-services and training on an international scale, the Coalition launched this new web site, dropped the "of Washington" from our name and changed our mission. Our mission became, "A Public-Private Partnership in Support of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth is to help schools - at home and all over the world - become safe places where every family can belong, where every educator can teach, and where every child can learn, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation."

June 2008 - The Coalition turns 20, and is honored as a grand marshal at Seattle Pride.

Note: The term "anti-gay" is used here to denote incidents motivated by bias against gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender people. Some of those targeted are actually heterosexual; the bias is the critical factor.

Our Leadership:   top of page

Our Member Organizations   (current as of 08/14/08)   top of page

Interested in joining the coalition? See this page.
 

Our Donors:   top of page

Our Volunteers   top of page

Our Mailing Address for Information:

Safe Schools Coalition
Public Health - Seattle & King County
MS: NTH-PH-0100
10501 Meridian Ave. N.
Seattle, WA 98133

Our Mailing Address for Finances:

Safe Schools Coalition
c/o Lifelong AIDS Alliance
1002 E. Seneca
Seattle, WA 98122-4203

For questions about our IRS 501(c)3 status or accounts payable or receivable: contact us.

Our Mailing Address for Membership:

Safe Schools Coalition
c/o Lifelong AIDS Alliance
attn: Dan Phillips
1002 E Seneca St
Seattle, WA 98122

Our Crisis Phone: (Washington State only)

1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1-877-723-3723)  24 hours a day - the phone line is answered at the Sexual Assault Hotline and they will have a Safe Schools Coalition Intervention Specialist volunteer get back to you within 24 hours.  

Our Message Phone:

(206) 632-0662 ext. 49

Our Contact Forms:  (for more detailed information on each of these, see the Contact Us page)

Our Mission ~ Our Role ~ Our History
Our Leadership ~ Our Member Organizations ~ Our Donors ~ Our Volunteers
Our Mailing Address for Information ~ Our Mailing Address for Finances ~ Our Mailing Address for Membership
Our Crisis Phone ~ Our Message Phone ~ Our Email Addresses

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