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      January 15, 2012                 OUTreach News!
In This Issue!
This week at OUTreach
Homeless LGBT Youth Forum
Special Event January 30th!
Book Banning update - SUCH good news!
Jackson Carter, our Biggest Winner Update!
Announcing Current Volunteer Opportunities
About OUTreach
Dear OUTreach friend,

Many of us were watching The Biggest Loser Monday night, slogging through the pink bubble gum pit with Jackson and hoping for his success!  He did it - and made it through another week at the Ranch.

Our beloved OUTreach alumni, Board Member and Volunteer Co-Coordinator, Jackson, is in many ways OUTreach personified.  He is full of life, personality plus, and working against amazing odds to be incredibly successful! OUTreach is like that...we are a small organization with a huge heart, working to save lives in what seems like a slog of bubble gum - or is it just the inversion and snow that we are slogging through?

It is YOU, friend and supporter of OUTreach, that makes our work possible.  Your notes, emails, calls and gifts keep us energized and ready to do anything and everything so that LGBT youth can live and thrive.

We appreciate your partnership!  Read more below about ways you can join with us to make a difference - from being a part of making host homes for homeless youth a reality, or in one of the many volunteer opportunities we have available.

Keep warm, keep cheering for Jackson with us, and keep your spirits up as we strive together for a safe, loving community and state for ALL!

Marian Edmonds, Executive Director 
OUTreach Resource Center 
This week at OUTreach!
Wednesday, January 16 
3:00 - 7:30 for ages 14 - 23: 

  

Life Skills Workshops!
Workshop 1:  
Job searches
Find a job that is a great fit for YOU!  3:30
 
Workshop 2:  
Communication skills 101
Ways to improve how you talk (and listen!) with the people most important to you! 4:00
 
Get Fit and FABULOUS with Avery!
Fun and fabulous OUTreach volunteer Avery has been trained by our friends at Workout Addiction Recovery, and every Wednesday and Thursday at 4:30 will share a personalized workout routine!  You can adapt these exercises to fit YOUR capabilities, needs and goals.  Avery will also give healthy living, nutrition and fitness tips and advice - don't miss this fun, effective exercise opportunity!

Dinner - yum!  5:30

Support Group for LGBTQQA youth 6:00





Thursday, January 17 
3:00 - 7:30 for ages 14 - 23:

Jackson watch party!  We will show the latest episode on the big screen, where Jackson says:


Life Skills Workshop: SMART 4:00
Getting from here to there, SMART style!  
Were you at Jackson's class in December?  If so, this is a refresher, if not - well, you are in for a treat!

Fit and Fab with Avery 4:30 - 5:30

Cooking with Chris @ 4:30

Dinner! 5:30

After dinner:  Piano Lessons, one-on-one mentoring and more!
Community Forum:  Homeless LGBT Youth
Tuesday, January 22nd 
Weber County Library 2464 Jefferson Avenue, Ogden
It is well known that in Utah hundreds of homeless LGBT youth sleep on the streets, in abandoned buildings, in the canyons and in camps, hidden from view. Too often, LGBT youth are discarded by their family, told to "get out until you straighten up" or worse. About half of homeless LGBT youth are from Mormon families, kicked out for being gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgender. 

 

OUTreach Resource Center, with significant help and support from Mormons Building Bridges, announces a new program, Safe and Sound, to provide host homes for LGBT youth who need a place to stay, as well as help for families who want to stay together. 

Join us at this community forum to learn more about the problem of homelessness in Utah, what the Safe and Sound host home program is all about, family acceptance and reunification, and how you can be a part of solving the problem of homeless youth in Utah.

 

 

 

You are invited to a VERY special event, a preview of the 
WORLD PREMIER of  Adam and Steve and the Empty Sea!
Wednesday, January 30 at 7:00 
Rose Wagner Theater, SLCAdam and Steve

138 W 300 S, SLC

 

Very limited tickets for this preview of the world premier to benefit OUTreach are $20 each. Reserve yours today by calling OUTreach at 801-686-4528 

 

OUTreach hosts for this wonderful evening are:
Marcia White and Nancy Knape
Roxanne and Tom Taylor
Barry and Deborah Gomberg 
Jeff Lensman 

 

As the nation awaits the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage equality, Plan-B Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Matthew Greene's ADAM & STEVE AND THE EMPTY SEA. Adam is LDS. Steve is gay. Set against the backdrop of the passage of Prop. 8, these childhood friends grapple with religion, sexuality, politics and adulthood.

Featuring Topher Rasmussen (Plan-B's BORDERLANDS, 8) and Logan Tarantino (Plan-B's 8). Directed by Jason Bowcutt (Plan-B's THE END OF THE HORIZON, 8 and Co-Founding Director, New York Innovative Theatre Awards). By LDS playwright Matthew Greene, most recently represented by #MORMONINCHIEF at NYCFringe.

Click here to read Matthew's Plan-B Theatre Blog  
 posting on creating the play and click here to read a LGBTA youth reaction from the staged reading of Adam and Steve and the Empty Sea!

 

Davis County Book Banning Update!
The Davis County School District has returned In Our Mother's House to library shelves - hurray! 

 

For more information, the ACLU press release, letters from the Davis County School District and more, click here.
Our Biggest Winner:  Jackson Carter Update!
Jackson in his audition jacket!

Watch Jackson on The Biggest Loser every Monday night! (NBC)


Read Jackson's blogs and more from his celebrity listing on TV Guide!

Jackson's sister, Lyndsey is the OUTreach webmaster for Jackson.  Keep tabs on what she writes!

Want to send cards and pictures to Jackson?  We send a care package from OUTreach every two weeks - drop off your card or gift and we will see that it gets to him at the Ranch!
Jackson and fellow Biggest Loser contestants!

Current volunteer opportunities at the Center

Volunteer Opportunities at the Center

 

General / Directed Mentoring at the Center          

Volunteers needed:  General Center Mentors

Volunteer time commitment:  2 - 5 hours per week on Wednesday or Thursday; 2 or more weeks per month

 

Arts and Activities 

Volunteers needed:  Special Activities Leaders

Volunteer time Commitment: 1-2 hours, 1 or more times

Duties / Goals:  Under the direction of the Activities Coordinator, lead youth in a special craft or activity

 

Education and Employment  

Volunteers needed:  Special guest speakers  Volunteer time commitment:  1 - 1½ hours 

Duties / Goals: Under the direction of the coordinator, present on a specific topic of interest to youth relating to educational or occupational goals and / or needs (i.e., resume writing, interviewing, selecting a major, career choices, financial aid)

 

Exercise, Health and Fitness            

Volunteers needed:  Special guest speakers  Volunteer time commitment:  1 - 1½ hours 

Duties / Goals: Under the direction of the coordinator, present on a specific topic of interest to youth relating to health, exercise, nutrition and related topics.

  

Center Support

Volunteers needed: Center Support Volunteers include volunteers 

(one or more times on a Wednesday / Thursday each month) for:

Opening 2:30 - 3:30 

Closing 6:45 - 7:45  Dinner Prep 4:30 - 5:30  Dinner Clean Up 5:30 - 6:30

                                     

Current Volunteer Special Project Opportunities (not at the Center)

           

Community Relations

Volunteers needed:  Assist at special events / meetings in the community  Volunteer time commitment:  1 - 1½ hours per month

 

Facility

Volunteers needed:  Assist at the Center to help with special projects as needed.  Volunteer time commitment:  1 - 1½ hours per month

 

Giving / Fundraising / Grants

Volunteers needed:  To assist the Coordinators and Executive Director with grant research, donor thank you notes, special fundraising events, data entry etc.  Volunteer time commitment:  1 - 1½ hours per month

 

Safe and Sound Host Home Project

Volunteers needed:  Specific and general legal, social work, case worker, publicity, marketing, website, and social media assistance for the Safe and Sound homeless youth host home project

Volunteer time commitment:  2-5 hours per month

 

Homeless and Youth in Need Pantry

Volunteers needed:  to inventory supplies, assist with shopping, gathering donations

Volunteer time commitment:  1-2 hours per month

 

Homeless Youth Street OUTreach Team 

Volunteers needed:  Volunteers may shop, cook, deliver needed hot meals and supplies

Volunteer time commitment:  2-3 hours per month


Want more info, or an application packet?  Email info@ogdenoutreach.org or call 801-686-4528

About OUTreach

OUTreach Resource Center, provides educational, health and enrichment opportunities and support for 350 LGBT and allied youth ages 14-23 as well as community services for LGBT and allied adults.   Comm Logo2
 
Our projects include: Safe and Sound host homes for homeless youth, homeless youth resources, family strengthening and reunification services, community education, suicide and bullying prevention and the Make it Better Now Project.

The Center is open for youth ages 14-23 from 3:00 - 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays in the lower level of the Unitarian Universalist Church, 705 23rd Street, Ogden.  

Want more info, ask questions, or become a volunteer? Visit ogdenoutreach.org, email us, or call 801-686-4528

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Ogden OUTreach Resource Center

705 23rd Street

Ogden, UT 84401

801.686.4528

www.ogdenoutreach.org