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Safe, Empowered, X-traordinary, Youth
A Summit Promoting Healthy Lives for Queer & Allied Youth
April 17th, 2010
FREE!
Main Event
at Santa Cruz High School 9am-5pm
415 Walnut Avenue
Santa Cruz, Ca. 95060
Queer Youth March 5pm-6pm
SCHS to N. Pacific Clock Tower
Dance feat DJ A.D., Dinner, & Festivities
at Walnut Ave. Women's Center 6pm-9pm
303 Walnut Ave
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Adult Registration
Check out our youth made video:
Safe Empowered Xtraordinary Youth!
Produced By: Planned Parenthood Mar Monte &
The Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County
Co-Sponsors:
Cantu Queer Center at UCSC
County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency
Diversity Center
Family Service Agency of the Central Coast
Queer Youth Task Force
Safety Net Clinics Coalition
Salud Para La Gente
Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center
Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency
Santa Cruz High School
Santa Cruz Women’s Health Center
Temple Beth El
Walnut Ave. Women’s Center
Summit made possible through a collaboration of community organizations, private donations, and a grant from The Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County
About Us
Mission Statement:
To increase awareness, identify the health needs and promote safe and healthy lifestyles for queer and questioning youth in Santa Cruz County.
Objectives:
It is our intention to address homophobia, biphobia & transphobia through open dialogue. We plan to enhance and develop the local health resources and services for queer and questioning youth living in Santa Cruz County by evaluating survey data from Summit participants. Ultimately, the end goal is to establish a countywide commitment to meeting the identified health needs of the LGBTQQIA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual/Androgynous) youth in Santa Cruz County by engaging in dialogue and collective advocacy efforts among all allied organizations.
Community Partners:
Cantu Queer Center at UCSC: The overarching goals of the Lionel Cantú GLBTI Resource Center are to provide a comprehensive range of educational, informational, and advocacy services and to work to create and maintain a safe, inclusive multicultural environment for UCSC's GLBTI students.
County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency: The Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency exists to protect the public health of Santa Cruz County and to help assure residents access to medical care and treatment.The ultimate goal of the Health Services Agency (HSA) is healthy people living in healthy communities. HSA is responsible for promoting community health in the public and private sectors.
Diversity Center: The Diversity Center is dedicated to building a diverse community, promoting health and well being, and advancing social justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and questioning individuals and their allies in Santa Cruz County.
Family Service Agency of the Central Coast: Our professional staff and volunteers provide the resources, support and counseling services essential to healthy families and communities. Our agency welcomes people of diverse cultures, genders, sexual orientations, ages, faiths, socio-economic backgrounds and abilities to receive services and as volunteers and staff members.
Queer Youth Task Force: The mission of The Santa Cruz County Task Force for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Questioning (LGBTIQ) Youth - aka Queer Youth Task Force/QYTF -- is to improve the quality of life for all LGBTIA youth in Santa Cruz county, as well as children and siblings raised in homes where LGBTIQ people live.
Safety Net Clinics Coalition: Clinic leaders work together through the Safety Net Clinic Coalition to develop solutions to address common challenges, coordinate care, share expertise and best practices, and improve quality of care. The Coalition is committed to working collaboratively to achieve comprehensive, accessible health care and improved outcomes for everyone in the County.
Salud Para La Gente: Salud Para La Gente, a non-profit organization comprised of dedicated individuals, is committed to providing a coordinated network of high quality, comprehensive, and cost effective health care services that are responsive to the evolving needs of the Monterey Bay low-income communities.
Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center [STRANGE]: We deliver quality human services guided by the values of diversity, partnership, and the power of workplace democracy." This year we served over 6,000 Santa Cruz residents with culturally-sensitive, bilingual services. We do this through our four service components: Child and Family Development Programs, Youth Services, Community Recovery Services, and Community Support Services.
Santa Cruz High School: SCHS is a comprehensive public high school with a small school feel. The student body of approximately 1,100 students represents a range of ethnicities, cultures, interests, and beliefs. Visitors frequently compliment the openness, respect and welcoming nature displayed by our students.
Santa Cruz Women's Health Center: The mission of the Santa Cruz Women's Health Center is to provide quality health services and to advocate the feminist goals of social, political and economic equality.We are dedicated to providing access to culturally appropriate and affordable medical services for the county's low-income, uninsured and underinsured residents. We have a particular commitment to providing services to those who face barriers to care due to economic status, disability, sexual orientation, mental illness, or immigration status.
Temple Beth El: A community of awakening and discovery, where the joy of Jewish living is made accessible and relevant to contemporary life...with a focus on worship, learning, and community, exemplified by our commitment to tikkun olam (social justice).
Walnut Ave. Women's Center: The Walnut Avenue Women's Center (WAWC) is a non-profit organization that has been dedicated to improving the quality of life for women, children, youth and families in the local community for over 50 years. The Youth department is to revolutionize the role of youth in society and to raise their expectations of respect and safety through role modeling, advocacy and education.
Past Queer Youth Conferences in Santa Cruz County:
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Statistics on violence against Queer youth community:
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9:00-9:30 a.m.
Registration & Continental Breakfast (30 mins)
Santa Cruz High Main Entrance & Cafeteria
9:30-10:15 a.m.
Opening Ceremony (45 mins)
(Cheer Squad /Introduction/ Jasmine Schlafke/Heart Deepening w/ Dr. Shane Hill)
Auditorium Main Building
10:15-10:45 a.m.
Speed Meet ‘N Greet (30 mins)
Auditorium Main Building/Quad
10:45- 11:00a.m.
Transition Period (15 mins)
11:00-12:15 p.m.
Workshop Session 1 (1 hr 15 mins)
Classrooms 60-75/ Floor 1 & 2 Main Building
12:15-1:00 p.m.
Lunch/Resource Fair (45 mins)
Cafeteria/Quad
1:00-2:15 p.m.
Workshop Session 2 (1 hr 15 mins)
Classrooms 60-75/ Floor 1 & 2 Main Building
2:15-2:20 p.m.
Transition Period (5 mins)
2:20-3:35 p.m.
Workshop Session 3 + Evaluation Collection (1 hr 15 mins)
Classrooms 60-75/ Floor 1 & 2 Main Building
3:35-3:40 p.m.
Transition Period (5 mins)
3:40-4:10 p.m.
Heart Circles (50 mins)
Auditorium Main Building/Quad
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Closing Ceremony (30 mins) (Rev D/ Raffle/Cheer Squad)
Auditorium Main Building
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Queer Youth March (1 hour)
Walnut Ave to Pacific Ave to Clock Tower back to Walnut Ave Women's Center
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Dance, Dinner & Festivities!
Walnut Ave Women's Center
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Session 1
11:00-12:15
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LUNCH
12:15-1:00
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Session 2
1:00-2:15
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Session 3
2:20-3:35
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YOUTH
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Dream Room
RM #64
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Tooling Youtube: Energize
Your GSA
RM#65
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To Identity and Beyond: Gender & Sexuality
RM#61
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YOUTH
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Rainbow Bridge to College RM #61
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Transgender101
RM#63
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Safer Sex for HS Age Youth #65
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YOUTH
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Out in Our Faiths RM #65
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Party Safely RM#62
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What A Drag #67
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YOUTH
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Stress Management Tool Kit RM #66
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Shades Of Youth RM #66
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YOUTH
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Safer Sex for Everyone #63
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Write Out: Putting our Coming Out Stories to the Page RM#60
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YOUTH
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Chill Out Room
(10-15 people) Staff Room
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Chill Out Room
(10-15 people)
Staff Room
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YOUTH and ADULTS
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Hearing Youth Speakers for Adults RM #70
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DIY Station
Quad
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Comfy Zones: Creating Safe Space at Schools RM#71
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Fight For Your Rights!
RM#73
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YOUTH and ADULTS
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Visual Art
X-pression!
Quad
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How to be a Super Rad Ally
RM#74
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YOGA & Breath Awareness
RM#74
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ADULTS
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Trans 101
RM #73
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Advanced Trans
RM#73
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Queer in the Classroom
RM#
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ADULTS
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Allies within, Allies between RM #74
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Working with College AgeTransition Queer Youth
RM#70
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Open Forum for Parents, Professionals, Allies of Queer Youth
RM#71
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Cultural Competency for Health Care Providers
RM#72
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Youth: Workshop Descriptions, biographies of presenters
Note To Adult Allies: We ask that our adult participants respect YOUTH-ONLY workshops and attend designated adult friendly workshops.
Youth Workshop Descriptions
Dream Room 2010: Come share your vision for the future
As a queer youth living in Santa Cruz County, what are your dreams for our community's future? Building on Dream Room 2009, what do you want to see in the next few years? What health services do you want added in Santa Cruz County? This workshop provides a safe and confidential environment for youth to share their creative vision and specific ideas on how to make our community better. If you live in Santa Cruz County, please join us for this exciting brainstorming session and let your voice be heard.
Vanessa Wilson and John P. Shields
Rainbow Bridge to College: This workshop focuses on some differences between the high school and college experience for those who are part of the LGBTQIA community. Specifically, we will focus on activism and agency for LGBTQIA experiences on college campuses and the transition to college life. We will also hear from current UC Santa Cruz and Cal State Monterey Bay students regarding their experience. Attendees will have an opportunity to participate in a social justice action during the workshop.
Axil Cricchio & Drew House
Out in Our Faith will be a facilitated discussion about what it is like to be Queer in your faith community. The focus will be a proactive approach to voicing frustrations and successes around the topic of being your authentic self within your church or faith community.
Pallas Stanford, J.D., M. Div.
Stress Management Tool Kit: A fun, interactive workshop and discussion about stress, queer-specific stressors, and finding safe, queer and queer-friendly resources. We'll be doing a facilitated round-table discussion and collage art activity.
Aileen Joy
Chill Out Space: This is a safe space for anyone interested in taking a break from participating in a workshop. Activities offered will include social support through discussion, card games, art and crafts as well as an opportunity for people to just relax and self reflect.
Alyssa Barragan
Tooling YouTube: Energize Your GSA: We will explore ways to get your GSA having more engaged discussions than you ever thought possible using YouTube clips and other visual media as a jumping off point.
Vanessa Wilson
Transgender 101: Transgender 101 is a workshop that will explore transgender identity and the experiences of gender fluid individuals. Through a question and answer panel with a Triangle Speakers, this workshop will help interested people learn more about resources for trans folk and how to be a better ally to those who identify as transgender.
Triangle Speakers
Party Safely: This is an interactive workshop that examines the issues involved with alcohol and drug use among LGBTQQIA youth, and provides a skill-building opportunity for youth around partying safely. Youth will develop dialogue and a safety plan around partying, learn how to assess when partying becomes a problem and have an opportunity to talk about alcohol and drug use in the queer community.
Rebecca Rozo-Marsh and Xaloc Cabanes
Write Out: Putting Our Coming Out Stories to the Page: When we share our stories, we step more fully into our powers.
Emily Ann Hartnett Webb
To Identity and Beyond: Gender and Sexuality is a workshop for those who are interested in exploring boundaries and categories along with the ways constructions can both limit and liberate people. Through open dialogue this space will look how individuals, society, and media understand and address gender and sexuality.
Julian Nelson
Shades of Youth: Youth Speak on Racism, Power and Privilege: Using the film Shades of Youth, we'll be looking at Racism and White Privilege in our own communities and ways we can work together to end Racism. Shades of Youth was filmed at The White Privilege Conference Youth Institute where 100 high school students gathered from across the United states to seriously engage in issues of race, power, identity, oppression and social change.
Lex
Safer Sex for Everyone: This interactive workshop is designed for middle-school aged youth, and will be taught by Planned Parenthood trained health educators who teach age-appropriate, medically-accurate, unbiased sex education. Participants will learn about how to protect themselves from the risks of unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including: abstinence being the only 100% effective method of protection, the proper use of condoms, receptive condoms, dental dams and all FDA approved forms of birth control. Participants will have the opportunity to ask anonymous questions.
Raechel Bedayan, Liliana Cabrera, Eric Walther
What A Drag: Looking fabulous, kings and queens alike, gender bending, a chance to be someone you're not, play dress up as an adult, have fun in a safe space with a chance to strut your stuff at the end.
Terrace (TJ
Safer Sex and Beyond: This interactive workshop is designed for high-school aged youth and beyond, and will be taught by Planned Parenthood trained health educators who teach age-appropriate, medically-accurate, unbiased sex education. Participants will learn about how to protect themselves from the risks of unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including: abstinence being the only 100% effective method of protection, the proper use of condoms, receptive condoms, dental dams and all FDA approved forms of birth control. Participants will have the opportunity to ask anonymous questions.
Raechel Bedayan, Liliana Cabrera, Eric Walther
Youth and Adult Workshop Descriptions
Hearing Youth Speakers for Adults: Triangle Speaker's panel of youth will share their stories, followed by a question and answer period. This is an excellent opportunity to hear directly from our LGBT and allied youth.
Triangle Speakers
Queer Anarchy Station: Learn to define key terms such as Queer, Anarchy, Tran-anarchy, etc with Aaron. They will introduce you to major Queer Activists in history and provide stencils for "Do It Yourself z-ine".
Aaron White
Visual Art X-pression! Create your own gender-bending, binary-breaking signs, t-shirts, buttons, and more! Express your authentic self through crafts and display your art in the streets for the post-conference MARCH!
Rubinna Shander
Comfy Zones: Creating Safe Space at Schools: A panel of teachers and youth will gather to engage in discussion around eradicating homophobia and creating safe spaces for all youth on our school campuses. Adults and students will engage in dialogue to address youths' concerns in a comfortable climate of safety and support. Panelists will generate ideas for being catalysts of change on their campuses. Building connections between youth and adults will be a primary goal of the panel.
Veronica Daley Zaleha
How to be a Super Rad Ally: This workshop will explore what it means to be an ally with a focus on how to be an ally to queer youth and how to be an ally to queer people of color.
Lex
Fight for your Rights!!: In this workshop you'll learn about AB 537, California's school non-discrimination law, and SB 71, California's comprehensive sex education law. What to do something about discrimination and harassment in your school? Or does your health teacher tend to exclude "controversial" topics that you think should be addressed? GSA Network will teach you strategies for taking legal action and insuring your school is safe for all you!
Logan Cuevas, Andrew DeSoto, Max Corrigan
Yoga and Breath Awareness: We will begin our practice by creating awareness of our breath, and expanding into restorative yoga postures. Our focus will be to calm the mind by uniting the breath with subtle stretches. By relaxing into comfortable postures while subtly opening our bodies, we will create a restored sense of calmness in ourselves.
Teale Taxis YT, CMP
Adult: Workshop Descriptions, biographies of presenters
Adult Workshop Descriptions
Trans 101: The basics of transgender culture and more. Common trans life experiences, current terms, key concepts, relevant research/stats, and creating a safe environment for trans people to live their lives without fear. How to support trans individuals and their families at home and at school.
Shane Hill, Ph.D.
Allies within, Allies between: Challenging other "isms" while confronting homophobia: Martin Luther King, Jr. once stated "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." In this interactive session, participants will explore what it takes to challenge other "isms" (forms of oppression) amongst and between groups who express a commitment to confronting homophobia.
Andrea Monroe
Advanced Trans: A presentation about the areas of difficulty and complexity that can arise after the transition process has been initiated. This workshop will be for those who know the basics of trans culture/experience and want a deeper level of discussion. The participants will be able to focus the discussion to their areas of interest including medical and psychological.
Shane Hill, Ph.D. and Jennifer Hastings, M.D.
Queer in the Classroom: This workshop will be a dialogue among participants who assume their role as advocates for queer and questioning youth and their allies in school settings. We will examine ways to support youth by providing a safe space for them in their schools while helping our adult peers accept their responsibility to youth on campus.
Noreen Winkler
Open Forum for Parents, Professionals, Allies of Queer Youth: A confidential, interactive session for parents, teachers, counselors, health practitioners, and other adults to discuss, ask questions, and get support around issues related to queer/questioning youth.
Deborah Abbott, MA, MFT
Cultural Competency for Health Care Providers: This interactive workshop is designed for adult health care professionals who would like to better meet the needs of the queer community. Participants will have an opportunity to identify social and cultural bias which, more often than not, leads to sub-standard care.Participants will learn about current terminology, specific health concerns and needs of the LGBTQQIA community, and how to make subtle changes in your practice that make a big difference in providing culturally competent care. The ultimate goal is to eradicate homophobia from health care practice so as to effectively meet the needs of all patients.
Shannon Scharnberg
Registration and Survey:
Youth Registration
Adult Registration
Press Room:
*under construction
Community Resources: Local and National Links
For Parents
For Youth
For Health Practitioners
For Guidance Counselors and Teachers
For Allies
How to Get Involved
How to start a GSA at your school
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Shannon Scharnberg
Planned Parenthood Regional Program Manager: Education Department
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Rubinna Shander
Planned Parenthood Intern/ Summit Organizer
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Misha Trombley
Planned Parenthood Intern/ Publicity
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