Subject: IMPORTANT: Action Alert: Critical meeting of the Coalition today 3-5pm Pacific Time; Minutes from the Safe Schools Coalition's September meeting
(1) Action Alert: Critical meeting of the Coalition today
3-5pm Pacific Time (2) Minutes from the Safe
Schools Coalition's September meeting
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(1) Action Alert! Critical meeting of the
Coalition today 3-5pm Pacific Time.
HELP
NEEDED
ITEMS ARE IN BOLD, RED, AND CAPITALIZED.
(1) ATTENDEES:Matthew
Wilson, meeting chair (in
person)
Airen
Lydick, meeting secretary
(in person)
Gabi
Clayton,
webspinner, representing PFLAG-Olympia, Families United
AgainstHate and
Youth
Guardian Services (via phone)
Heather
Carter,
independent consultant (in person)
Beth
Reis, Public Health
(in person)
Emily
Emerson, Schools
Out Washington (in person)
Tracy
Flynn, Welcoming
Schools (in person)
Angela
Rinaldo, Youth
Suicide Prevention Program (in person)
Hatlo,
Lifelong AIDS
Alliance/Queer Teen Ensemble Theatre (in person)
(2)
SHARING TIME
a.Will Gibson (trainer
for SSC and professor of
psychology) and Beth will be presenting to the American
Psychology Association next summer in Honolulu.
b.Queer Youth Space and
Hey Yo! collaborated on
a safer sex workshop, including building tips for
educational cards, on
Friday, September 21st.
c.Queer Youth Network is
a brand new
opportunity for non-profit folks who work with
youth.Raphael (Entre Hermanos), Hatlo (Lifelong/QTET), and
Lulu (Orion Center)
had
been
talking about wanting opportunities to
discuss, with peers, issues and challenges
of
their work.QYN is
one result of those conversations.So far, there are
quarterly
gatherings
to share ideas, network, and build
community.The next
quarterly gathering
is
November 8th, 6:00-8:00 p.m. at
the Camp Ten Trees office (509 10th AVE E,
Seattle).
d.Schools Out
Washington€™s core competencies
for youth development professionals
a.As with in the past,
it€™s a time of
transition for the Coalition.There are
a few people
on the
leadership team who will need
to leave their roles soon.Beth,
who€™s
been very
active as the
lead co-chair of the
Coalition for quite some time, is one of these people.
So, it is one
of those times in
which the Coalition needs either to reorganize in some way
to
cover the workload of departing folks, to
redefine the work of the Coalition, or to
transition
the work of the Coalition to other
groups, organizations, etc..
b.Members of the
leadership team have been
talking to Safe Schools Coalition member
organizations
to update them on this and to
encourage them to share ideas for the future of the
Coalition.There
have been meetings with people from
lots of different member organizations as well as with other
community leaders.
c.Everyone interested in
the future of the
Coalition is strongly encouraged to the
October
16th meeting at which
options for the future of the Coalition will be discussed.
d.A full description of
the Lead Co-chair role
is in the works.
e.People are also needed
to take on tasks of
grant writing, membership, dues,
invoicing, and
intervention
coordinator.
(4)
REPORT:MEMBERSHIP
(submitted
by
Michelle Munro)
a.A membership request
($60 dues) from the Mississippi
Department of Education was
received.At the meeting, it was decided that they should be
granted membership.
(5)
REPORT:BULLYING
LAW & PUBLIC POLICY WORKGROUP
a.There is a new OSPI
position about youth
involvement.
b.The subcommittee for
training and
professional development is continuing to push
for youth
involvement.Also,
more teachers need to be involved; this
has been a
challenge
since not enough money has been provided to stipend teacher
participation.
c.More involvement in the
workgroup (or
subcommittees of it) would be great.
e.The next workgroup
meeting will be December 5th
(brown bag lunch).
f.Members of the
workgroup (or subcommittees),
such as Heather and Gabi , can offer
more
information if you€™re interested in getting involved and
learning more.
(6)
REPORT:FINANCES
No report was
submitted.
(7)
REPORT:SPEAKERS€™
BUREAU MANAGER and OUTREACH (submitted by
Katrina Pestano)
Speakers
Bureau
& Training Team
Date:
Location:
Trainers:
Audience
Total:
8/31
Teen
Link
Katrina,
Luzviminda
10
Pending:
Edmonds
Woodway High
School
Puget
Sound University
Cascade
Middle School
Sylvester
Middle School
Orca
K-8
Wing
Luke Elementary School
Outreach
Date:
Location:
Tablers:
4th
Thursday/mo.
WFHB
Radio Segments
Beth,
Gabi, Rosalinda, Tracy
2012
Seattle
Channel
Beth,
Heather Murphy
8/7,
8/14
Community
Schools Collaboration
Katrina
8/13
Sylvester
Middle School
Katrina
8/20,
9/5
Cascade
Middle School
Katrina
8/28
Queer
Youth Network
Katrina
(8)
REPORT:WEBSITE
& LISTSERV (submitted by
Gabi Clayton)
87
Sweden
- 69 Hong Kong - 55 South Africa - 54 Singapore - 43
Netherlands - 40
New Zealand - 32 Brazil - 30 Philippines - 28 Spain - 27
Austria - 23 Czechia -
22 Turkey - 21 Norway and Vietnam - 20 Poland and Denmark -
18 Italy - 13
Republic of Korea, Thailand and Mexico - 11 Indonesia,
Israel and Malaysia - 9
Switzerland - 8 Kuwait and Finland - 6 Belgium, Argentina,
Greece, Taiwan and
Romania- 5 Puerto
Rico, Nepal,Fiji
and Iran - 4 Cote d'Ivoire, Bahamas,
Croatia, Slovakia, Latvia, Portugal, Ireland and Colombia -
3 Moldova, Chile,
Cocos Islands, United Arab Emirates, Guatemala, British
Indian Ocean Territory,
Lithuania, Hungary and Sri Lanka - 2 Panama, Jordan,
Ethiopia, Bulgaria, Kenya,
Ghana, Tuvalu and El Salvador - 1 Malta, Venezuela,
Suriname, Bangladesh,Solomon
Islands, Saudi Arabia,Bermuda,
Jamaica, Estonia, Cambodia,Ecuador, Iceland, Georgia, Federal States of
Micronesia, Egypt, Guam, Cameroon, Cyprus, Pakistan, Peru,
Namibia, Luxembourg,
Lebanon, and Macedonia.
Listserv
Report:
Total
subscribers
NEWS: 612, IMPORTANTNEWS: 189
New
subscribers: 6:
2
from Seattle WA, 1
from Olympia, WA; Stafford, TX; UT; and San Francisco CA
Also,
a
special thank you goes out to listserv volunteer Karen Yung!
(9)
REPORT:INTERVENTION
(submitted
by
Penny Palmer)
There were 6
calls from the King
county Sexual Assault Resource Center line.
We had
2 requests for information but no
interventions.One
e-mail to SSC was a
request for information (films, brochures, etc.) and one
e-mail requested
information regarding volunteering as an intervention
specialist.
I have
sent out the request to the Specialists and support team to
verify contact
information.As soon
as that is
corrected I will send to the leadership and intervention
teams.
(10)
NEW BUSINESS:
a.Stephan Nance/Music
Bike Tour €“ This musician
is interested in donating some
proceeds
from a benefit tour to SSC.Airen will contact Stephan Nance to figure
out
b.Trevor Project Request
€“ Trevor Project
approached SSC requesting support of their
idea
to declare €œTrevor Project Day€ on September 27th.SSC suggested the name
of €œLGBTQ Youth
Suicide Prevention Day€ instead.That
name/request was taken forward via a letter to the Governor.
c.McGraw Hill Request €“
The publisher would
like to include the €œAll Families
Welcome€
poster in a textbook.We
need to try to reach out to the artist
(Joe Brekey) to
see if
he€™d like to give his permission for
this.Gabi will try
to find contact
information.
d.Carlson Civic
Fellowship €“ Though the idea of
having a fellow for SSC is a cool one, we
haven€™t
heard that anybody is able to take on
the work of hosting/supervision.So, we
won€™t be pursuing this.
(11) ANNOUNCEMENTS,
NOTIFICATIONS, ETC.
a.Breaking 27 €“ This is a
pre-teen/young teen
rock group touring, and we might want
to
offer support of them or partnership in
some way.Their
music and tour responds
to
bullying
and encourages other youth to see
the movie Bully.Airen will reach out to
them
to see if there€™s anything we can do to
help promote their tour and message.
(12)
NEXT MONTH€™S
MEETING:
UPCOMING
SAFE
SCHOOLS COALITION MEETINGS
All
are welcome.
There
are,
as always, two ways to attend:
The
face-to-face
meeting is at Planned Parenthood at 2001 E Madison in
Seattle.Please
park on the street, not in the lot, and keep your cell
phone in your pocket at least until you get up to the
second floor.Also,
please sign in and get a guest name tag as you enter the
building, andsign
in again when you get to the meeting room.Finally, when you
leave, sign out and turn in your visitor name tag at the
front desk.
If
you would like to participate in the meeting via phone,
please contact the person chairing/facilitating the
meeting to get the necessary information.
October
16th, 3-5
pm Pacific Time.Michelle
facilitates, Penny
records.
November
20th,
3-5
pm Pacific Time. Mo facilitates
and
Frankrecords.
December
18th, 3-5 pmPacific
Time.Matthew facilitates
and Penny records.
Safe
Schools
Coalition
c/o Rosehedge 1401 East Jefferson Street, Suite
401 Seattle,
WA
98122
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not representing a member org Mo Lewis,
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center Matthew Wilson,
Oasis/Pierce County AIDS Foundation
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