Dear Safe Schools Coalition Members and Friends:
(1) FILM about marriage, "Inlaws & Outlaws," (inclusive but not at all preachy) now available for libraries and high schools for $39.95
(2) YOUTH OPPORTUNITY: Powerful Voices Youth Community Group ... Do you know Seattle youth who want to join an awesome group and earn some money? … Deadline to enroll: Sept 19
(3) CONTEST: NYC-area teachers ... “What’s the REAL DEAL about Gender, Power and Relationships?” writing and filmmaking contest for your students!
(4) ACTION ITEM: Support Queer Youth in VT with a quick online VOTE - it's free and easy
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(1) FILM about marriage, "Inlaws & Outlaws," (inclusive but not at all preachy) now available for libraries and high schools for $39.95
Inlaws & Outlaws cleverly weaves together the true stories of couples and singles— both gay and straight — and all into a collective narrative that is as hilarious
as it is heartbreaking.
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(2) YOUTH OPPORTUNITY: Powerful Voices Youth Community Group ... Do you know Seattle youth who want to join an awesome group and earn some money? … Deadline to enroll: Sept 19
Apply to be a Powerful Voices Community Group if you…
ÿ 12-14 years old
ÿ Socialized as or identify as a female
ÿ Want to talk about issues around sexuality & relationships
ÿ Enrolled in school or live within the South, Southwest and Central Seattle
ÿ Open to sharing their own personal thoughts, opinions, experiences, and emotions about their lives and the topics we cover in a group setting
ÿ Youth with low attendance rates and unstable housing (couchsurfing or homeless)will be prioritized
Please APPLY, you’re welcome here!
Together We’ll Learn How to….
© Explore pieces of your identity
© Spend time with other youth your age in a safe & fun environment
© Work on how to avoid drama
© Learn to deal with relationship issues
© Become leaders in our community
© Use our own power and voices!
© Break down issues (homophobia, racism, sexism, etc) that impact our community!
© Take adventures together (field trips)!
When?
Mondays & Wednesdays Oct 3rd-Dec 14th- 4-6:30pm
*Some varying hours and field trips will be determined at orientation*
Where?
PV OFFICE: 1620 18th Ave., Suite 100. Seattle, 98122
(18th & Madison in the CD: under the big cell phone towers)
YOU GET!!
© $50 Gift Card Incentive* if you finish 80% of the program
© $25 Gift Care Incentive for family engagement**
© Bus tickets
© Snacks!
Deadline to enroll: Sept. 19th 2011
Questions? 206.860.1026
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(3) CONTEST: NYC-area teachers ... “What’s the REAL DEAL about Gender, Power and Relationships?” writing and filmmaking contest for your students!
Scenarios USA has launched the 2011-12 “What’s the REAL DEAL about Gender, Power and Relationships?” writing and filmmaking contest. Winners are partnered with Hollywood filmmakers. All NYC students in grades 6-12 are eligible. RSVP to our free September
teacher workshop to participate and receive the free contest curriculum.
http://scenariosusa.org/workshops2011/TeacherWorkshopsNYCSept20.pdf.
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(4) ACTION ITEM: Support Queer Youth in VT with a quick online VOTE - it's free and easy
Outright Vermont needs *YOUR *help! And it will take two minutes or less! What do you say, will you help us out?
Outright is a finalist in the Most Creative Fundraising Category of the Stay Classy Awards (like the Academy Awards of philanthropy) for our annual Fire Truck Pull event. Yes, that's right, we gather teams to pull a real-life full-size fire truck up our
pedestrian-only street in Burlington, Vermont each year! In order to make it to the next round, we need to get a lot of votes before August 26th (that's THIS FRIDAY!) PLEASE VOTE for us AND tell all your friends! The cash prize will help us help more queer
youth in Vermont! Click the link, click Most Creative, and VOTE for Outright Vermont.
Anything you can do to help would be great: post on FB and Twitter, email your friends, post on websites, send out to listserves, solicit help from celebrities, anything. We are working on several different strategies but we can't do it without you. The
cash prize will help Outright help more queer youth, and I appreciate all your help.
All the best from Vermont,
Saben Alexander Littlefield, Education & Statewide Field Manager
Outright Vermont
241 N. Winooski Ave, Burlington, VT 05401
802-865-9677 ext. 4#
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