Volunteer with Safe Schools Coalition!
June, 2004, Seattle: A high school drama troupe (shown here) did
a 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!
Become a fundraiser ... Do you appreciate the Coalition's advocacy, training and intervention services, resources, website and mailing lists? Want to help us keep that work going? Great! Donate time on a one-time basis organizing a yard sale, a bake sale, a house party, 5-K run/walk or other event to raise funds to help the Coalition; or help us find and apply for grants.
Contact our Development Director -- Kathy Sakahara: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/contactus/2
Become a speaker/trainer or an outreach volunteer/tabler ... Plan and co-facilitate workshops for non-profit agencies, youth and other community members on LGBTQ issues. Volunteers should have previous experience speaking in front of audiences, an anti-oppression framework, general knowledge of LGBT and safe schools issues, a flexible work schedule, and willingness to work with other speakers. 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! Find out more about the Speaker's Bureau and outreach work here: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/speakersbureau/
For more information, contact our Chair for Speaking/Training/Workshop Referrals, Tracy Flynn: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/contactus/
Become a member of the mailing list team ... In addition to our own announcements, meeting minutes, Coalition meetings, activities and needs; we also send news, action alerts & member organization-only fundraising events, resources (books research curricula films scholarships etc.), events, jobs & internships & volunteer opportunities, and legislative/elective news & alerts. And we frequently need mailing list team members to send news to our subscribers. Know how to use Constant Contact? Great! Don't know to use it and want to help? We can teach you.
Become a resource checker ... Donate some time to help to keep the resources listed on our website current.
Contact our Webspinner / Chair of the Mailing List Team, Gabi Clayton: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/contactus/
Live in Washington State? In addition to the options above, here is another: Become an intervention specialist ... Safe Schools Coalition advocates 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, Dr. Will Gibson: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/contactus/
Come to a Safe Schools Coalition meeting ... Lots of needs for help are expressed and you can meet folks and ask questions. You can join us in person in Seattle, WA or call in. Interested? Click here for meeting times, locations and directions: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/meet_who_when_where.html
Subscribe to the Coalition's mailing lists ... You will receive "YOUR HELP NEEDED" messages from us and other member and ally organizations about what you can do to help from speaking to the media, to participating in a survey or research project, to data entry and more. To subscribe, click here.