Per the SafeZone Program websites: The UNH Safe Zones Trainings are professional development opportunities for UNH faculty, staff and graduate students to advance awareness, knowledge and skills around the services and support that we provide to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) students and colleagues. Participants of Safe Zones trainings are a campus-wide network of allies who are supportive of LGBTQ faculty, students and staff and are committed to contributing to a campus climate of inclusion at UNH.
Each Training is tailored based on the specific issues that participants may encounter in their particular professional work/setting. Some general topics that are explored are:
• Increasing awareness of the issues and experiences of LGBTQ individuals,
• Using inclusive language,
• Accessing and referring LGBTQ individuals to important campus resources,
• Discovering specific ways to provide support and be an ally in the work that you do with students,
• Exploring specific issues related to providing services to LGBTQ students and assessing ways to be inclusive of and welcoming to LGBTQ individuals in the general services that you provide,
• Developing skills to take active steps toward reducing and preventing harassment, discrimination, and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression,
• As an office/department, how can you best "communicate" that you [your department] is supportive [an ally] to LGBTQ students?
The Paul College SafeZones Training will be held on Tuesday, December 6th 12:40pm – 2pm in room 115. This program will be focused around the specific LGBTQA+ issues that arise in professional work/settings; please email Vicky Parker at victoria.parker@unh.edu if there are specific questions or topics you would like the facilitator to address.
