April 10, 2012 OUTreach News!
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| Wednesday and Thursday OUTreach
3:00-7:30 for ages 14-23
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There's always lots of fun activities and programs to choose from at OUTreach! This week, we feature:
Ryan Combe: Special Guest Speaker, 6:00
Ryan will join us for dinner at 5:30 and then speak about the political process and why every single vote matters!
Teen Health and
Leadership Class
Wednesdays, 4:30-5:30.
After 6 weeks of health classes, we are now focusing on leadership development and planning for community educational events. This week will be fun - designing t-shirts and tote bags for our booth at Pride!
Heather Ambrose, PhD, LMFT, LPC is an amazing therapist who volunteers her time counseling youth, adults and families at OUTreach.
Want to learn more? Stop by and chat with Dr. Ambrose on Wednesdays!
We've been brainstorming fun events for our new building, and one of the great ideas is an adopt a pet event! To get in the spirit, our movie of the week: Seeker and Fetch!
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OUTreach Move UPDATE
| | We are excited to announce that the board has made a decision! Before we share where it is, we need to finish with the paperwork, but it won't be long now! How long? Well, today intrepid volunteers moved 4 semi's full of furniture into short term storage!
 | Kudos to these amazing OUTreach moving team members!
And we can't thank Scott Bohn, owner of Transco and his crew enough for donating space and time to help us with this move. You guys rock! |
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OUTREACH LGBT and Allies Summit
Speaker Line Up!
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OUTreach will sponsor its first annual youth summit to be held July 27 and 28 at Weber State University. This summit is the first of its kind in northern Utah, with three tracks of speakers and workshops:
- By and for LGBT and allied youth
- For parents and supportive adults
- For professionals (including school teachers, administrators and counselors; mental health and other supportive professionals)
Our theme is building bridges and supporting youth through:
- Youth leadership and self expression
- Strengthening families
- Preventing homelessness, suicide and risky behaviors
- Providing options for youth experiencing homelessness
- Better health, wellness, educational and professional options for youth
This week we feature the work of Lambda Legal! Our Summit speaker, Shelbi Day, is an attorney who served as co-counsel in the ACLU's landmark case in which a Florida appellate court rendered Florida's law prohibiting gay men and lesbians from adopting children unconstitutional. As a result, Florida's adoption ban is no longer enforceable. Shelbi now is a Lambda GSA specialist, and will be speaking about supporting students' rights as well as the landmark work Lambda Legal is involved in for persons with HIV/AIDS.
This photo released by Lambda Legal shows Maverick Couch, a gay student whose southwest Ohio high school prohibited him from wearing a T-shirt designed to urge tolerance of gays is suing the school, saying it's violating his freedom of expression right. Lambda Legal is supporting Maverick, and supporting all students who wish to exercise their rights.
"Schools should be places of learning and development and that includes a student's right to express who they are and what they believe in," stated Eliza Byard, the executive director of the Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network, in a press release released on Tuesday: "It seems however, the school district is engaging in the very kind of bullying that creates unsafe school climates."
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New to our stellar line up and also speaking at the LGBT Summit:
Don't miss it, July 27th and 28th at Weber State University. We are excited to report that Continuing Education Credits will be available for professionals attending the summit! |
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Upcoming Events - mark your calendar!
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GSA Regional Network Meeting 4:00-5:00
April 20 Day of Silence
April 23
Homeless Veterans Stand Down;
SOULFORCE! Meet the Equality Riders
7:00 Ogden Library, Main Branch
with our friends from PFLAG
April 25
Gardening, anyone? Ogden Junior League incoming president Shalae Larson will tell us about Oasis and the other neat things the Junior League is up to!
May 2 ACLU Awards Dinner
Celebrating Lincoln Parkin, 2012 Student Activist Scholar!
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Free classes for OUTreach youth and adults!
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Our friends at Bright Blessings are offering FREE classes in beginning belly dancing on Saturdays at 4:00! Or join them for discounted kung fu classes - half price on Fridays for OUTreach friends! And yoga classes are free for the first five OUTreach youth and adults who reserve space before each class Thursdays (6:00 and 7:30) and Sundays (10:00 and 11:30). Simply reserve your spot through the Bright Blessings facebook page.
Bright Blessings is located at 107 25th Street in Ogden. Just say you are with OUTreach, and have fun!
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