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Including LGBTQ Youth in Youth Programs
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 10:00am to Friday, January 21, 2011 - 12:17pm

    January 21st, 2011, 10am-1:30pm
    PSU Smith Memorial Union, Room 238
    1825 Southwest Broadway, Portland, Oregon 97201


Oregon Mentors, OregonASK, and PSU’s Center for Interdisciplinary Mentoring research invite you to a training on including LGBTQ youth in youth programming. In this training, researchers Kris Gowen, Ph.D. and Christian Rummell, will discuss the following topics:

• Identifying how to provide safe spaces for LGBTQ youth
• What data says about the risk and protective factors of LGBTQ youth in Oregon
• Review terms/know the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity, why is this important?
• How to identify and correct biases commonly found in youth-serving organizations

Join us for this wonderful half-day training free of cost! Lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP to caitlin@oregonmentors.org by Wednesday, January 19th or register online at: http://mentoringlgbtyouth.eventbrite.com/

 Contact Information: Caitlin Walker, Oregon Mentors, 503 517 8990 * 10