Please join
Marcus Logan and the Board of Directors
of the Halton Organization for Pride & Education and
Joanne & Bob Stacey of Halton PFLAG to celebrate the
May 15, 2008
International Day of the Family
International Day Against Homophobia
Date: May 15, 2008
Time: 5:30 – 9:00 pm
Location: Canyon Creek Chop House – 2429 Fairview Street (at Guelph Line)[MAP]
Cocktail Appetizers – sponsored by Canyon Creek
$25.00 set menu (if you want to stay for dinner)
Raffles
Enjoy the great food of Canyon Creek and show your support for diverse families and commitment to the elimination of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression in Halton.
This is the perfect way to show your support for the LGBTQ communities, a great way to make new friends within the LGTQ communities and help build support and celebration of diverse communities of Halton.
Please RSVP your attendance to Marcus at HOPE:
Phone: 905-632-4551
e-mail: info@haltonpride.org
Students in Grades 7 - 12
and Teachers are invited to:
Halton Inside and Out Student Conference
Thursday May 22 2008, 1:00pm -8:00pm
Halton Regional Building 1151 Bronte Road, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, L6M 3L1
The Halton Regional Building is a wheel-chair accessible space.
Parking is available.
PARTICIPANT REGISTRATION DETAILS (PDF) | Submission Due by May 14, 2008
PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE of EVENTS
POSTER (PDF) - Please distribute
Conference Goals:
- To help teachers and students enhance and develop tools together for challenging homophobia, heterosexism, transphobia, and gender bias.
- To help students and teachers build safe and effective Gay Straight Alliances and Queer Straight Alliances.
- To celebrate the contributions of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities in our schools.
- To model inclusion by valuing and respecting people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
This conference will be appropriate for students from grades 7-12.
Students, teachers, social service providers, and community members are invited to propose workshops of 60 minutes in length. Workshops could be designed for students, for teachers, or for students and teachers together and may recognise the connections of oppressions, and address multiple human rights issues. We encourage joint presentations with student and adult collaboration that are interactive and dynamic. A modest honorarium is available for workshop presenters.
Inside and Out is a Halton based conference. The Halton District School Board, HOPE and community partners are interested in building connections with neighbouring school boards with similar communities, who may be initiating or developing services and resources for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgendered, intersexed, queer and questioning students and teachers.
Presented by HDSB, Halton Organization for Pride Education and Community Partners.
For more information please contact:
Suzanne Muir, Diversity Coordinator HDSB 905-631-6120 x 434
Student registration due by May 14, 2008
HOPE Proudly invites LGBTT2!QQA communities and our neighbours, families and friends to...
Halton Pride 2008
Saturday, June 7, 11am - 4pm
Central Park Band Shell
2331 New St. Burlington, ON
Stay tuned for more information. Community Sponsors needed; email info@haltonpride.org or call the office 905-632-4551.
Please distribute the poster!
Sponsored in part by HOPE, the S.N.A.P. Committee, the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario - Halton Local, and the Burlington Community Foundation.
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HOPE sponsors a social committee that is dedicated to developing and running social events throughout the year leading up to the June Pride events. The committee started out with a focus on the Pride event (which is being planned throughout the year), but really took on a social networking aspect to it.
The S.N.A.P. committee is HOPE’s Social Networking And Pride committee. We are always looking for more volunteers and especially welcome to ideas as to what sort of social events you are looking for. Do you have an idea, a venue for us to use, a business that could help??? Let us know at info@haltonpride.org or call the office 905-632-4551.
Thank you all for your continued support. We can build a better community together!
Please read the Burlington Post / Oakville Beaver Series on Homophobia in Halton:
Sports Culture holds negative view of Gays
Gay youths face unique challenges
colouring outside the lines: North & South Halton LGBTTI2QQ Youth
HOPE is pleased to offer our new youth group poster.
Please post in your agency and feel free to forward to other youth servicing agencies. The poster was created by youth accessing our group.
For the past 6 years HOPE has been running two youth groups in Halton for gay, lesbian, bi, trans, queer and questioning youth, their friends and allies. The Oakville group runs the second Monday of the month 7pm – 9pm and the Milton group runs every second Tuesday of the month 7pm – 9pm.
The poster does not have the locations listed for confidentiality and safety reasons. Individuals, youth, workers, guidance councillors, teachers and parents are encouraged to call the HOPE office for locations and more information.
The LGBTQ youth attending the groups are most welcoming to allied friends attending. The facilitators will also meet or talk with parents if needed.
Look us up on FACEBOOK! - groups.myspace.com/haltonprideyouth - givemeaning.com/project/hope
POSITIVE SPACE TRAINING: "A Positive Space is a Healthy Place"
The Halton Organization for Pride & Education is now offering a series of one day training workshops for all agency personnel in Halton. This one day workshop will increase your understanding and awareness of the causes of homophobia and transphobia and the importance of intervention. Participants will learn how to intervene when there are incidences of harassment or discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity and how to build capacity within the work environment to challenge homophobia and heterosexism.
The one-day training sessions are
Registration Fee: $30 | Registration Form (PDF)
Friday, May 23rd
from 9:30am - 3:30pm
at
860 Harrington Court, Burlington, Room 209 (Bay Area Learning Center)
(Guelph Line and Harvester)
Please contact Marcus at:
905-632-4551 or marcus.logan@haltonpride.org
Fax: (905) 632-0778
Please contact us to be notified of new dates.
PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)
HALTON REGION ON CHAPTER
The Halton Organization for Pride & Education (H.O.P.E.) and PFLAG Canada together with the generous support of the Lesbian, Gay Community Appeal Foundation are proud to announce the PFLAG Chapter in Halton.
If you are a family in need of support please contact haltonon@pflagcanada.ca or
1-866-429-4242 or info@haltonpride.org
A community grows
with HOPE
Halton Organization for Pride & Education (HOPE)
A board governed, registered charitable community organization that provides anti-homophobia training and educational resources, and provides community services for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer and Questioning persons, their family and friends in the Region of Halton and surrounding communities in Ontario, Canada
Halton
Pride Celebrations
•
Halton
LGBTTQ
Youth Support Group
(Supervised confidential groups formed and meeting in Oakville
and Acton/Georgetown
Transportation available! )
•
Halton
LGBT Parenting Group
•
Toll Free and
Confidential
Contact Line:
1-
877-860 - HOPE
or 905-632-4551
We need your kind support
to continue to provide services:
The Halton Organization thanks the Ontario Trillium Foundation for its generous support and partnership.
HOPE COMMUNITY
PRIDE PARTNERS
Halton
Region Health Department
AID/STD and Sexual Health Clinic
Services
Telephone:
905-825-6065
Toll free:
1-866-4HALTON
(1-866-442-5866)
TTY: 905-333-1096
sexualhealth@region.halton.on.ca
Region
Sexual
Health Clinics are free, confidential and wheelchair accessible.
Halton
Regional LGBTQ Resources
Halton
Regional Police Service
Emergencies
(Police / Fire / Ambulance): 911
Non-emergencies:
905-878-5511
PFLAG HALTON REGION ON
Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
905-632-6664
haltonon@pflagcanada.ca
Sexual
Assualt & Violence Intervention Service
Crisis Line: 905-875-1555
TTY Only: 905-825-3743
ROCK Reach Out Centre for Kids
Burlington: 905-634-2347
Oakville: 905-339-3525
North Halton: 905-875-2575
www.rockonline.ca
Halton
Women's Place
Crisis Line:
905-878-8555
The AIDS
Network
905-528-0854
Volunteer, make donations or for more information, please contact us: info@haltonpride.org
HOPE
860 Harrington Court, Unit 217
Burlington Ontario
L7N 3N4
tel 905-632-4551
fax 905-632-0778
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