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      January 23, 2012                 OUTreach News!
In This Issue!
This week at OUTreach
It's official: Safe and Sound Host Home Project!
Special Event January 30th!
Upcoming Forum: Marriage Equality!
Jackson Carter, our Biggest Winner Update!
Current Volunteer Opportunities
About OUTreach
Dear OUTreach friend,

Thank you for your amazing response to the launch of our Safe and Sound Host Home project!  There has been an incredible outpouring of grass-roots support, from our partners and supporters in Mormons Building Bridges, community members, people from clear across the country who are excited to help make a difference in the lives of "throw away" LGBT youth.  1,300 homeless youth in Utah is tragic and a call to action for every one of us who cares.

Do you have a heart for youth, for families?  Do you want Utah and our country to be a safe and loving place where every LGBT youth has a home and a future?  If so, join us! 

We need volunteers, donors (every dollar makes a difference) and most of all we need advocates and allies who will speak up and share what they know about the epidemic of LGBT youth homelessness in Utah.  Can YOU make a difference today? There is much work to be done, and together we can do it!

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

  

Cold and blah outside?  Come to OUTreach and get revved up!

Spirituality and Sexuality Discussion 3:30
How can your sexual identity make your spiritual self more complete? It used to be gay OR faith/spirituality...but that was then, this is NOW!
Bring your ideas and questions for an awesome discussion!

Job Application Workshop with Tori 4:00
Quick quiz - what is the ONE thing sure to get your job application tossed into the circular file?  Come to the workshop and find out!  
Bring an application if you have one, or we will give you samples to try!
     
Get Fit and FABULOUS with Avery! 4:30 - 5:30
Avery
Fun and fabulous OUTreach Health and Wellness Coordinator Avery will help you reach YOUR fitness goals!  Today is the day - BRING IT!


Dinner - yum!  5:30

Support Group for LGBTQQA youth 6:30


And... all afternoon:
streaming our favorite Biggest Loser, Jackson Carter!  
Missed an episode?  Want to relive the Swamp Thing clip?  We have 'em all!

Plus:  free, professional counseling
with Dr. Heather Ambrose and Dr. Teri Kay for you, your parents, or all of you together!  They are super-cool and fun and at OUTreach every Wednesday afternoon!

Thursday, January 24 
3:00 - 7:30 for ages 14 - 23:

Getting ready for the Point in Time Count 4:00
Want to get involved with our OUTreach to homeless youth and youth in need?  Join us for this special workshop and training for the annual Point in Time Count.

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

Cooking with Chris @ 4:30

Dinner! 5:30

After dinner:  One-on-one mentoring help with your job, scholarship, and college applications.  And if you are doing all three at once, get a special prize!  

Craft and design extravaganza:  
Designing a t-shirt to support Jackson!  Does Honey Badger care?  You bet!

Let's cheer Jackson with special t-shirts as he makes it through each week at the Biggest Loser Ranch.  Do YOU have a design idea? Fabulous!
Announcing Safe and Sound!
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. 
 
Did you miss our forum to officially launch this important new project?  Read the Salt Lake Tribune article by Ray Parker here and the Fox 13 News report by Ben Winslow here.
 
Want to learn more about how you can be involved?  Go to our website, ogdenoutreach.org and click on the Safe and Sound tab to read more about the program, download volunteer or host applications, and more.  
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!

 

Upcoming:  
Next Community Forum to address Marriage Equality
Join us February 5, 7:00 p.m. at the Ogden Library Main Branch auditorium.  Our friends Jamila Tharp and Michelle Hastings are leading a marriage equality action February 14 at the Utah State Capitol.  Learn more about the work they have done in California and what will be happening on Valentine's Day!
 
Michelle, Jamila and their children at the OUTreach "In Our Mother's House" Community Forum 
Our Biggest Winner:  Jackson Carter Update!

Watch Jackson on The Biggest Loser every Monday night! (NBC)
 
Have you seen Jackson's official contestant page, full of pictures, clips and interviews?

View episodes online! A friendly warning: Poor Jackson barfs TWICE in the latest episode!
 
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