TEEN LINE FUNDAMENTALS Pt 16: Community Connections Continued- LBGTQ

In honor of our 35th Anniversary, Dr. Leader shares her memories regarding the very very early times of Teen Line in a string we prefer to call…

TEEN LINE FOUNDATIONS By Elaine Leader, Ph.D., CGP, BCD, FAGPA

Chapter Sixteen: Community Connections Continued – LGBTQ Community certainly one of our most crucial and connections that are rewarding been aided by the LGBTQ community as well as on a wide variety of amounts plus in diverse settings. About it is hard to know where to begin as I think back over the years there is so much to write! As well as introducing an LGBTQ outreach to working with Project 10 (forerunner to your Gay/Straight Alliance) to my involvement on important Task Forces. There have been two Task that is important forces impacted LGBTQ Youth. One had been aided by the State Department of Education. This needed taking routes to Sacramento to provide input to amend what the law states needing California schools be accountable to fight discrimination. The amendment would be to consist of intimate orientation and sex identity along side religion, ethnicity, etc. We had been effective. We then used this with performing anti-bias trainings for LAUSD college administrators, counselors and faculty. We had been section of a team with venture 10, the Alliance for Children’s Rights and Human Rights Watch to which we supplied A lgbt youth as among the group. Another Task that is meaningful Force went to happened during the Edelman Childrens’ Center. It was the job Force to finish Homophobia. These conferences had been a extremely significant experience. It aided us to fine tune our LGBTQ Outreach while offering us the chance to collaborate along with other businesses aided by the goal that is mutual of prejudice against LGBT teenagers and homophobia. Gay, Lesbian, Bi & Transgender Okumaya devam edin