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Title: Part IV Inclusivity


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Part IVInclusivity Representation
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Why?
  • By making LGBTQ youth feel like outsiders, you
    could limit their willingness to access your
    resources, seek your services, get tested for
    STIs and HIV, attend support groups, try to quit
    smoking with your cessation program, volunteer to
    outreach. . .

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Objectives for Inclusivity and Representation
  • To better understand how diversity, inclusion,
    and representation play out in your organization
  • To initiate a process of assessing your agency on
    four levels of inclusivity and representation
  • Environment
  • Personnel
  • Interactions
  • Resources

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  • While language is one of the first steps in
    making spaces safer for LGBTQ youth, sometimes
    actions speak louder than words, right?

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  • Inclusivity
  • Inclusion is being a part of what everyone else
    is, being welcomed and embraced as a member who
    belongs (Kids Together, Inc)
  • Diversity
  • A broad term encompassing all of the ways that we
    human beings are both similar and different.  It
    involves variations in factors we control as well
    as those over which we have no choice. (Managing
    Diversity, Gardenswartz and Rowe)
  • Representation
  • Whos presence is valued and whos voice is
    heard.
  • Race
  • Socio-Economic Status
  • Gender
  • Sexual Orientation
  • Ability
  • Education-level
  • Geographic Origin
  • Ethnicity Culture
  • Age
  • Language
  • Lifestyle
  • Religion

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4 General Areas
  • Environment
  • Personnel
  • Interactions
  • Resources

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Environment
  • Physical Space
  • Accessibility
  • Confidentiality
  • Gender Neutral Bathrooms
  • Open Door Policy
  • A Greeter at the door

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Environment
  • Art
  • Posters
  • Media Magazines, films, books
  • Pamphlets and Literature

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Personnel
  • Are you asking the right questions?
  • What are the right questions?

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Personnel
  • How diverse would you consider the staff at your
    agency?
  • What does your agency do to encourage people of
    diverse backgrounds to apply?
  • Is diversity represented across all staff levels,
    including manager positions?

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Personnel
  • How do staff members treat one another?
  • How is respect maintained?
  • How do staff members act towards guests and/or
    participants?

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Personnel
  • Does your organization support or give trainings
    or workshops around
  • Diversity trainings
  • Cultural awareness
  • Cultural competency
  • Critical thinking

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Interactions
  • How does your organization interact with clients?
    those seeking services? youth participants?
  • How do participants treat one another?
  • Are these governed in your policies and
    procedures manual?

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Interactions
  • Intakes and information gathering
  • Demographic questions
  • Inclusion of varying sexualities and gender
    identities
  • Non-Discriminatory Policies
  • Lambda Legal, Basic LGBTQ Policies, Training and
    Services for Child Welfare Agencies

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Interactions
  • How are interactions amongst participants
    handled?
  • Organizational Culture
  • Conflict mediation
  • Discussion groups
  • Facilitation
  • Peer to peer communication and interaction
  • Importance of allies, youth leaders, and
    responsible adults

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Interactions
  • How are interactions amongst participants
    handled?
  • Organizational Culture
  • Conflict mediation
  • Discussion groups
  • Facilitation
  • Peer to peer communication and interaction
  • Importance of allies, youth leaders, and
    responsible adults
  • What methods would for your agency and/or space?
  • Between Staff?
  • Between Youth and Staff?
  • Between Youth?

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Resources
  • Advocates for Youth
  • Lesson Plans on Sexual Orientation and Gender
    Identity

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Resources
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Representation Resources
  • Links to lists of LGBTQ inclusive
  • Movies
  • Books
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Magazines
  • Links to biographies and features on famous LGBTQ
  • Artists
  • Activists
  • Musicians
  • Writers/Poets

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  • 1638 R Street NW, Suite 300
  • Washington, DC 20009
  • Phone 800.541.6922
  • Web http//www.nyacyouth.org
  • Email nyac_at_nyacyouth.org

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  • Questions?
  • Jennie Beeson, Program Associate
  • jennie_at_nyacyouth.org
  • 800.541.6922 x.12
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