On July 28th, 2010, NYAC welcomed Ra'Shawn Flournoy, Internet Outreach Coordinator for AID Upstate in Greenville, SC for 'Best Practices in Internet Outeach.'  Below is more information about this presentation, including links to the actually listen/watch the presentation recording and resources shared.  We will continue to add resources to this site as we move forward, so please check back for more!  Please contact Shannon Murphy, Program Coordinator, at shannon@nyacyouth.org or (202) 319-7596 x24 if you have any questions or would like further assistance.  Click below for more info!

This page serves as a resource page for a workshop presented at the National Creating Change Conference 2010 in Dallas, Texas.

Workshop Description -

This discussion-based workshop will address the conflicts and barriers created by the "down-er than thou" mentality that often leads to feelings of exclusion and grudges in social justice organizing. Speaking specifically to youth and student organizers, this session will discuss and then outline strategies to build communities of strong organizers instead of alienating one another with destructive judeents. In an effort to create sustainable activism, we will develop real methods for confronting the effects of judgmental conlict.

This is a web based program that uses podcasts, text messages, and videos to support adolescents trying to quit smoking. A series of 6 podcasts that can be played on the computer or downloaded to an ipod gives youth tips on how to quit and the text message service gives youth a month of daily support in the cessation process.

The LGBTQ CAT is a search engine toolbar used to find LGBTQ resources. It has all gay worldwide resources from youth, music, health, publications, community center, Pride, businesses, chat, legal, literary, performers, government, entertainment, human rights, sports, and so much more!

The final summary report from the NYAC 2008 Best Practices Summit. The summit brought together youth leaders from around the country to share best practices in HIV prevention and services.

The National Safe Schools Partnership's recommendations to bridge the gap in federal law to promote school safety and improve student achievement for all students.

The Safe Schools Improvement Act addresses GLSENs federal policy recommendations (outlined in the publication Bridging the Gap in Federal Law). Members of the National Safe Schools Partnership have signed on to these recommendations to promote school safety and improve student achievement for all students, through legislation that will comprehensively address the issues of bullying and harassment.

The R.E.C. (Real Enought 2 Change) Boyz is a HIV prevention program targeting young Black men between the ages of 13- 24, who have sex with men and their friends. The program’s approach to HIV prevention and intervention combines peer-to-peer informal outreach, social marketing activities, skills-building and leadership development and social events and activities to promote safer sex and foster a healthier community.

This updated version of the original Bending the Mold publication is an action kit for transgender students.  Contents include:

• How does your school measure up??
• How to be a transgender ally
• Your social change toolkit
• Preventing violence and bullying
• Securing freedom of gender expression
• Promoting transgender-inclusive policies
• Building community and fighting invisibility
• Protecting confidentiality
• Making bathrooms and locker rooms accessible
• Fighting for equality in sports teams
• Accessing health care
• Resources
• And an appendix with a Sample Model School Policy 

Co-produced by NYAC and Lambda Legal

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs releases Annual Report on LGBT Domestic Violence: Domestic Violence declines in 2007 but may be spiking in 2008 as the economy worsens. The 50-page report, released annually by NCAVP, examines data compiled from thousands of LGBT people who experienced intimate partner violence during the year 2007.

Get Busy. Get Equal is an online toolkit meant to help LGBT activists to better achieve results. It features a breadth of resources including tips on building coalitions, garnering grassroots support and talking to the press and elected officials. Created by the ACLU.

A booklet about positive and safe sex created by The Coalition for Positive Sexuality.

An Action Kit for Trans Youth

Co-produced by Lambda Legal and NYAC

Guide to LGBT Youth Resources

A leader in teen-to-teen sexuality education, SEX, ETC. is an award-winning national newsletter and Web site that is written by teens, for teens, on teen sexual health issues. SEX, ETC. is the major component of the National Teen-to-Teen Sexuality Education Project developed by the Network for Family Life Education a nonprofit organization that provides resources, advocacy, training, and technical assistant in support of balanced, comprehensive sexuality education in the United States. The Network is based at the Center for Applied Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

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