Dear Safe Schools Coalition members and friends:
Minutes 6/21/05, 4-6 p.m.
Safe Schools Coalition Meeting
Chairing: Beth Reis; Recording: Heather Murphy
Present: Beth Reis- Public Health Seattle & King County, Chris Johnson- King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, Cresdan Maite- SSC Speakers Bureau Manager, Heather Murphy, Joyful Freeman- American Friends Service Committee, Kari Kesler- Public Health Seattle & King County, Lisa Love- Seattle Public Schools' Comprehensive Health Education Office, Marsha Botzer- Ingersoll Gender Center, Fetish Hilario- American Friends Service Committee, Dana Shaphren- American Friends Service Committee
Based on requests to have SSC meetings available over conference call, the current location of Meany Middle School will no longer meet our needs. We are currently looking for a new, convenient location. We are still waiting to hear back from those individuals (Frieda, WEA; Marsha, Seattle LGBT Community Center; Beth Public Health & Planned Parenthood; Lisa, John Stanford Blg; Chris, KCSARC) who were going to check into their facility's availability. Everyone checking, please let Beth know by Friday, July 8th. Watch the Safe Schools listserve for an announcement about where the July 19th - and all future meetings - will be held.
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MEMBERSHIP
a) NEW MEMBER APPLICATION: Norup School
from Michigan accepted; Welcome!!!
b) These 22 organizations have joined in or renewed for 2005: If you do not see yourself, your organization is not a paid member for 2005!
American Friends Service
Committee
Charles
Wright Academy
Gay
Parent Support Group
Greater Seattle Business Association
Hate Free Zone Campaign
Ingersoll Gender
Center
Kalaheo High
School Gay Straight Alliance
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center
Lake Washington Education Association
Lake Washington
Technical Academy in Lake WA Technical College
Lambert House
Oregon Safe Schools and Communities
Coalition
PFLAG -
National and local chapters in Bellevue, Everett/Snohomish and
Seattle
Public Health
- Seattle & King County
Rainbow Families of Puget Sound
Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual
Minorities
Snohomish
County GLOBE Youth Program
Stonewall Youth
Verbena
Washington Association of School Social Workers
Western Washington
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Women's Educational Media
Everybody else, please pay up!! http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/members_join-renew.html
To help organizations remember, Kari will be drafting a letter and invoice form and Joyful will do the reminder mailing after we have labels from the Democracy Project training.
(5) LISTSERVE REPORT
Welcome to our first list subscribers in Puerto Rico and in the province of Kosovo (Serbia and Montenegro, formerly "Yugoslavia"). The SSC listserve now serves subscribers from at least these 25 Washington State counties: Benton, Chelan, Clallam, Clark, Cowlitz, Franklin, Grant, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Kittitas, Mason, Pacific, Pierce, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish, Spokane, Thurston, Walla Walla, Whatcom, Whitman, and Yakima. In addition, we serve subscribers in at least 38 other states (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SD, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY) and Washington DC and Puerto Rico. And in at least 8 other countries (Australia, Belize, Canada, China, Serbia and Montenegro, South Africa, United Kingdom, and New Zealand). Altogether, our lists reach nearly 700 individuals and agencies directly (not counting those to whom messages are forwarded). Subscribe online at http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/listsub.asp#subscribe
Seattle Schools has a bus reserved for the Pride Parade on Sunday morning, 6/26 at 11am. Colorful pencils with the SSC website as well as stickers will be handed out. So far about 15 adults and 20 students will be in the parade riding the bus or walking alongside. Anyone can join! We are meeting at 9am at Lowell Elementary on Aloha, near where the parade will end. We will then be traveling to the staging area on Pike, we are 35th in line. You can also join us there, or anywhere along the parade. There will be snacks on the bus. We need 4 safety volunteers to walk at each of the bus's 4 wheels. For more info or to RSVP or volunteer, email LLove@seattleschools.org
(7) "FIRST GAY SOCIETY IN AFRICA NEEDS YOUR HELP" - We received a request for a donation from an organization in Nigeria. We decided to forward it to ILGHRC (the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission), ILGA (the International Lesbian and Gay Association) and Amnesty International, as they are better equipped than we to evaluate its legitimacy and provide support.
(8) SPEAKERS BUREAU - Cresdan will be with us through September. He is currently beginning to contact for all past volunteers to assess their willingness to continue and what kinds of support they would need and working on creating a new database.
(9) HATE FREE ZONE'S IMMIGRATION FORUM on June 25, volunteers needed
Planning meeting Wednesday, June 22nd at NWIRP at 5:30pm
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INTERVENTION SERVICES
a) Currently, individuals in need of interventions reach SSC
through our (Intervention web form) or by calling Planned Parenthood or Hate Free
Zone. We are looking into having a 24 hour line with either the Crisis
Line or King County Sexual Assault Resource Center. Heidi will report back next
month
b) 3 Recent interventions: 8th grader who has been harassed for 2 yeas, Teacher threatened to be fired if out, Mom of a 15 year old bisexual looking for resources
8:30-3:30, Beth's office: 10501 Meridian Ave N, Seattle. Contact Bethif you want to help do interviews.
(12) HEROES & ROLE MODELS PROJECT volunteer needed - High School interns were trying to obtain copyright permission for photos to make the trading cards. Many legal issues involved. We did get pro bono advice from an attorney. Now are working with student artists to draw images of pictures we are unable to use. We are looking for volunteers to be artists or contact photographers who own copyrights and/or to spend a few hours helping with research. Contact Beth to volunteer: Beth
(13) FREE PSA OPPORTUNITY - volunteers needed: Come be on TV!!!
Via KOMO television's "Northwest Afternoon," taping in late August. SSC has an opportunity to have a 15 second back to school public service announcement during the show. We need people to sit in the audience during the taping or make the announcement. We will lose this spot if we do not get enough volunteers. If interested, please contact Heather Murphy, hmurphy@u.washington.edu
(14) WSAME (WA Assn for Multicultural Education) RESOURCE DIRECTORY- Joyful (AFSC) paying the $25 so that Safe Schools Coalition's speakers bureau will be listed as a trainer, Cresdan will write SSC information, with Kari's help.
(15) OFFER TO SELL Peace in our Lifetime from our web site & share profits - Consensus was:
If there is any LGBTQ-specific content in the book, we'd be glad to take a look at it. They can send us a complimentary copy. If we think it would be useful to our members and other users of our site, we'd be glad to list it, with a link to the author to handle purchases, on our book pages, at no charge at all.
If she wants more visibility than just a listing on our book pages, the other alternative, assuming, again, that there is any LGBTQ-specific content in the book and that we think it would be useful to our members, would be for her to become a web sponsor ($50/month for non-members) and, in that case, she would get a banner on the home page, as our other three sponsors do now.
(16) ACTION NW- PICKETING OF THE DOBSON CONFERENCE this weekend. Discussion occurred around the framing of the message that SSC will make regarding informing of this event. See email sent 11:45 today for more about this discussion and consensus.
(17) A HUGE THANK YOU to these wonderful individuals and families who have donated in support of the Safe Schools Coalition this past year and a half:
Roberta Adams
Kelly Aiken
Sue Anderson
Linda and Tom Baker
Janet M. Bogle
Janet
Cady
Samantha J.
Chandler
Mike McCloud
Gabi and Alec Clayton
Maureen
Considine
Laurie Dils
Bill Dubay
Charles
Fay
Tracy Flynn
Jim
Fotter
Betty Freund
the late Robert K.
Goldsworthy
Joan
Helmich
Susan
Kirchofer
Joyce
Liljeholm
Marcie
Mathis
Mike McCloud
Katharine A. Pearson
George H. Reis
Lew Scheinert and Dave Green
Barbara Steele
Kim Westheimer
And
many others who either asked us to remain anonymous or who donated through
their workplaces and chose not to identify themselves even to
us. (Apologies to those who donated who may not have intended your donation
to be anonymous. If you aren't listed here, we lost the record of who chose
anonymity over a year ago, and so bent over backwards to protect even those of
you who may not have needed protection of your
confidentiality.)
All your colleagues in coalition appreciate your sacrificing in support of publications, the web site, the list serve, intervention services and our training/speaking efforts. It couldn't happen without your support. As you know, we function on a shoestring, with a tiny fraction of the budget of other national organizations. Every dollar you give makes it possible. To donate, go to: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/donate.html
(18) Joyful shared flyer for the "TOGETHER IN FAITH" CONFERENCE 8/5-8/7 in Michigan. Sponsorship available. Info at www.togetherinfaith.com
(19) Joyful shared flyer for "DO YOU KNOW ENOUGH TO ENLIST?" This is handed out to youth as they graduate high school to provide more info. than military recruiters are likely to give. www.afsc.org/youthmil
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Congratulations to both Beth and Fetish who won Seattle LGBT Community
Center's FRUIT BOWL
AWARDS.
(21) MICHIGAN PUBLIC HEALTH
INSTITUTE was given copyright
permission to reprint our "Guidelines for Identifying Bias in Curriculum and Materials"
<http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/identifyingbias.html> in their resource guide "One Size Does Not Fit All: Culturally Competent
Abstinence Education for Sexual Minority Youth."
(22) RESEARCH REQUEST- University of British Columbia Faculty of Law student will be interviewing SSC 7/6 at 2pm for their research project "Social Contention and Hate Crime Labeling: a Comparison of Non-Governmental Knowledge Practice in Canada and the United States." Available to join in this interview about Safe Schools Coalition's research? Contact Beth if you can join us.
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SHARING
a) Portuguese LGBT group
thanks us for extending copyright permission
Rede Ex Aequo: Associação De Jovens Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Transgéneros E Simpatizantes will be translating and republishing our "Educator's Guide to Intervening in Anti-Gay Harassment" and "Administrator's Guide to Handling Anti-Gay Harassment" in Sept. Meantime, they are excited to share their student brochure: http://www.ex-aequo.web.pt/arquivo/perguntas.pdf
b) We sent to County of Santa Clara Social Services Agency a variety of SSC materials for their Gay Pride Resource Faire for Social Services Staff.
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UPCOMING MEETINGS - location
TBA
a) Tuesday,
July 19th 2-4 note: summer hours (Frieda chairs -
Frieda; Lisa C. records)
b) Tuesday, Aug 16th 2-4 note: summer hours (
(Beth chairs - Beth; Chana records)
c) Tuesday, Sept 20th 4-6 (Marsha chairs - Marsha; [your name here] records)
SSC Membership
There's been confusion about the GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE of the Coalition. So, to clarify: SSC is an international organization. We are based in Seattle, WA, USA, but have list subscribers and web users all over the world. We have done training as far away as South Africa and provide technical assistance to educators, students and community members all over the world. Member organizations include:
a) the national headquarters of
PFLAG,
b) California-based Women's
Educational Media,
c) Gay Parent Support Group and Kalaheo High
School Gay Straight Alliance in Hawaii,
d) the Oregon Safe Schools and
Community Coalition, as well as
e) numerous Washington State organizations.
We have members that are:
a) faith-based (e.g., Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation),
b) school-based (e.g.,
Charles Wright Academy, Lake Washington Technical Academy in Lake WA Technical
College),
c) family-based (e.g.,
Rainbow Families of Puget Sound)
d) college-based (e.g., in
the past, WSU's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Allies Program in Eastern WA and
University of Puget Sound in Western WA),
e) professional (e.g.
Washington Association of School Social Workers),
f) governmental (e.g., Public Health - Seattle & King County, Snohomish County GLOBE
Youth Program) and
g) community-based (e.g.,
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, Ingersoll Gender Center).
We invite your organization to join - or renew your membership in -- the Coalition TODAY.
Why? All you get, really, for joining, is the right to ask your fellow Coalition members to allow you to do particular projects in the name of the Coalition where your own organization might be seen as more partisan and less mainstream than a credible coalition that includes government agencies and other mainstream as well as LGBTIQ-identified groups. That is, doing a project in the name of the Coalition can sometimes give you access you'd otherwise be denied. It can also allow your government or otherwise mainstream agency to share the responsibility for a politically-sensitive, controversial stand. And you get the satisfaction of giving back to the Coalition if you've found our work valuable.
What the Coalition gets by your joining is the strength of a diverse (geographically and in all other respects) member list for our letterhead, our web site, and our publications. And of course a few bucks to support our work.
Member dues are sliding and depend upon the size of a member org's budget:
Organizations
with budgets of less then $5000/year ... $30/year
Organizations with
budgets of $5000 - $10,000 ... $60
Organizations with budgets of $10,000 - $50,000
... $125
Organizations with budgets of $50,000 - $150,000 ... $200
Organizations with
budgets of $150,000 - and up ... $250
If you need for us to send you an invoice, just go ahead and fill out the form on line to renew, marking the option to have us send out an invoice. If you can only "pay" by contributing staff time or some other in-kind service in lieu of dues, mark the amount to pay "$0"
Call Piper Sangston, our membership chair
(425-450-5574), or any of the Coalition's Co-chairs (Frieda Takamura,
253-941-6700 or, outside the Seattle-Tacoma area, 800-622-3393; Marsha Botzer; or Beth Reis, 206-296-4970 or, outside Seattle, 800-325-6165, ext.
64970).
To join, go to http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/members_join-renew.html
Former member orgs, who haven't renewed this year (or, in some cases last year or two) are:
AIDS Peer Education Exchange (APEX) / Pierce County
AIDS Foundation
Association for Sexuality
Education & Training (ASSET) (no longer exists)
Bainbridge Island School District's Multicultural Advisory Council
Bellingham Gender Group (no longer exists)
Benton/Franklin Council for Children
Bremerton-Kitsap County Health District
Center for Human Services
Central Washington Comprehensive Mental Health
Committee for Children
Dai Wai Association
Equality Washington (no longer exists)
Evergreen Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - Social Action
Committee
Fairness Lobby (no longer exists)
Gay Lesbian PTSA of Greater Puget Sound (no
longer exists)
Gay Lesbian or Whatever
(G.L.O.W.) at Lakeside School
Home Alive
League of Women Voters of Washington
Lifespan Education Services
Mountain View High School GSA
Northwest Coalition for Human Dignity (no longer exists)
Northwest PROUD
OASIS/
Pierce County AIDS Foundation
Odyssey Youth
Center
Olympia Unitarian Universalist
Congregation Social Justice Committee
Open
Door Ministries/LC - Evangelical Lutheran Churches of America
Out Front Labor Coalition/Pride at Work, AFL-CIO
PFLAG - Bellingham/NW Washington
PFLAG - Bremerton/Kitsap County
PFLAG - Ellensburg
PFLAG - Eugene/Springfield
PFLAG -
North Olympic Penninsula
PFLAG - South King
County
PFLAG - Spokane
PFLAG - Vancouver/SW Washington
Planned Parenthood Affiliates of WA and the following local affiliates:
Central Washington,
Western Washington,
Inland
Northwest
Providence Sexual Assault
Center
Puget Sound Community School
Queen City - Seattle Gay Culture Center
(now called Seattle LGBT Community Center)
Rainbow Center
Ravenna United
Methodist Church
SCI (Service Civil
International) International Volunteers
Scouting for All
Seattle Academy of
Arts and Sciences
Seattle Commission for
Sexual Minorities
Seattle Office for Civil
Rights
Seattle Public Schools Ofc. of
Comprehensive Health Education
Seattle Public
Schools Off. of Drug/Alcohol Intervention (same as SPS Comprehensive Student
Assistance Program?)
Snohomish County Human
Services Dept.
Spokane Public Schools Equity
Education Office
Stonewall Recovery Services
(no longer exists)
(Washington State)
Teen Line
The Eastside Network (TEN)
WEA's GLBT and Allies Caucus
Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI)
Yakima Education Association
Youth Eastside Services (YES)
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