LGBTQ Hosts Safe Zone Training

The Uni­ver­sity of New Mexico’s LGBTQ Resource Cen­ter hosts Safe Zone train­ing for staff and fac­ulty at branch cam­puses, col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties and high schools who are inter­ested in apply­ing safe zones for LGBTQQIA peo­ple at their cam­puses and schools. The train­ing ses­sion is on Sat­ur­day, April 23 from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the UNM Law School in room 2404.

Safe Zone train­ing is a three-hour train­ing designed to increase the community’s under­stand­ing and aware­ness of les­bian, gay, bisex­ual, trans­gen­der, queer ques­tion­ing, inter­sex and ally (LGBTQQIA) issues. This train­ing is specif­i­cally focused for those on col­lege and high school cam­puses to assist them as they develop safe zone pro­grams. Par­tic­i­pants in the train­ing will gain a bet­ter under­stand­ing of homo­pho­bia, het­ero­sex­ism, trans­pho­bia and LGBT issues in schools.

Indi­vid­u­als com­plet­ing Safe Zone train­ing will be able to mark their offices or work spaces with a Safe Zone sticker, show­ing stu­dents that these loca­tions are safe spaces to dis­cuss issues of sex­u­al­ity and iden­tity. Doing so can also pro­vide a greater sense of safety and sup­port among LGBTQ indi­vid­u­als on campus.

Lunch and mate­ri­als will be provided.

To reg­is­ter, call at 505–277-0834 or email lgbtqrc@unm.edu.