Supporting LGBTQ+ Students in WNC Schools

11 Rocket Drive,Asheville NC 28805

22 April, 2022

Description

We're BACK! The 27th School and Community Counseling Conference will have speakers from the Campaign for Southern Equality. Register NOW! The last few years have seen a blossoming of diversity in gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation, and young people are on the leading edge of that change. At the same time, the expression of LGBTQ+ identities at school and in the curriculum have become an increasingly volatile subject. As helping professionals and educators, how can we best support the children and youth who have been thrown into the front lines of the culture wars? How do we create school environments that welcome and celebrate students of every identity? What is our role in working with parents, administrators, and other staff and faculty? A team of 4 dynamic facilitators from The Campaign for Southern Equality will help us explore: Understanding the growing diversity of gender identity and expressionBest practices for supportive schools and classroomsTitle IX protections for LGBTQ+ students, staff, and facultyTouchpoints for counselors and social workers when navigating complex student, school, and family dynamicsThe Campaign for Southern Equality’s mission is to support the legal and lived equality of LGBTQ+ people in the South. The speakers for the day will be: Craig White, Supportive Schools Program DirectorIvy Hill, Community Health Program DirectorWynston Sanders, Southern Equality Fund OrganizerAbby Shuler, Supportive Schools Research AssociateBefore you register, please note the following: THIS YEAR WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GIVE NBCC CEU'S FOR PRIVATE PRACTICE LICENSURE .6 CEU's available for School Counselors to present to their county.  Costs: Spring Counseling Conference Committee Members - FREE If you registered and paid for 2020, we will honor your registration free of charge! Graduate Students - $10 Counseling Professionals - $25 Agencies who want to advertise via a table - $30 Event Brite will add a nominal service fee for processing The non-refundable registration fees will be payable to The Buncombe County Schools Foundation. Registration fees include lunch, which will be provided on site. There will be no winter weather date If you need a vegetarian or GF meal, please email [email protected]. Sponsors for the conference include:  Grove Stone and Sand – Branch of Hedrick IndustriesPepsi ColaWestern Carolina University