ACS provides affordable and accessible counseling services to youth ages 10-25. The Outlet Program, founded in 1997, empowers Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning (LGBTQ+) youth and builds safe and accepting communities through support, education, and advocacy. Outlet envisions a world that embraces, empowers, and celebrates LGBTQ+ youth. Striving for social justice and engaging youth in achieving freedom, fairness, and equality for all are the core elements of the program. Through peer support groups, counseling services, and education, Outlet strives to support the emotional, physical, and social development of queer youth as whole individuals. We acknowledge that systemic inequalities impact many features of organizations: the relations between people in it, the programs implemented, who accesses care, who is left out, who holds leadership positions, the policies and practices, etc. We want the populations we serve to see themselves visible in us and also in our services.
Possible tasks of the Outlet intern include but are not limited to: co-facilitating Outlet peer support groups, planning virtual workshops/ activities, assisting with social media presence via tiktok/instagram/facebook, developing curriculum and presenting training/education, supporting outreach efforts, developing a focus project (determined at beginning of internship with intern participation) and supporting Outlet Program Director. These tasks can be expanded and focused based on the applicants particular passions and skills.
Potential Focus Projects:
Days/Times: Flexible and co-created based on your schedule M-F with possible Saturdays at random
Language Skills: Bilingual Spanish speakers a major value!
Possible tasks of the Outlet intern include but are not limited to: co-facilitating Outlet peer support groups, planning virtual workshops/ activities, assisting with social media presence via tiktok/instagram/facebook, developing curriculum and presenting training/education, supporting outreach efforts, developing a focus project (determined at beginning of internship with intern participation) and supporting Outlet Program Director. These tasks can be expanded and focused based on the applicants particular passions and skills.
Potential Focus Projects:
- Co-developing a queer history art project
- Assisting with the construction of an agency wide Equity Task Force
- Developing educational bits for social media
- Targeting a specific underrepresented and developing/rolling out a relevant speaker series.
Days/Times: Flexible and co-created based on your schedule M-F with possible Saturdays at random
Language Skills: Bilingual Spanish speakers a major value!
Somos Familia Bay Area
Somos Familia was founded by two moms from the East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area) with Latino gay and bisexual sons in 2007 to reach out to other families. With an all-volunteer group of different generations we established the following mission and vision. Our mission is to create support and acceptance for Latina/o/x lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning youth and their families. We envision a world where youth of all sexual orientations, gender expressions and identities are accepted and celebrated by their families and communities
Students will have the opportunity to develop and implement an education workshop series and support Somos Familia film/video projects, in collaboration with Somos staff and volunteers.
Students will have the opportunity to develop and implement an education workshop series and support Somos Familia film/video projects, in collaboration with Somos staff and volunteers.
El/La Para TransLatinas
El/La is an organization for transgender Latinas (translatinas) that works to build collective vision and action to promote our survival and improve our quality of life in the San Francisco Bay Area. Because we exist in a world that fears and hates transgender people, women and immigrants, we fight for justice. We respond to those who see us as shameful, disposable or less than human. We are here to reflect the style and grace of our survival, and to make new paths for ourselves.
GLBT Historical Society
Founded in 1985, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society is recognized internationally as a leader in the field of LGBTQ public history. Our operations are centered around two sites: our GLBT Historical Society Museum, located since 2011 in the heart of San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood; and our Dr. John P. De Cecco Archives and Research Center, open to researchers in the Mid-Market district.
Students will have an opportunity to develop curated education projects connected to archive materials and museum exhibitions. Opportunity to serve on annual gala fundraising committee.
Students will have an opportunity to develop curated education projects connected to archive materials and museum exhibitions. Opportunity to serve on annual gala fundraising committee.
City College of San Francisco
Queer Resource Center
Queer Resource Center
The Queer Resource Center (QRC) seeks to empower the lives of LGBTQI+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Questioning and Allies) students at CCSF by uniting the diverse individuals in the community across gender, race, age, and economic standing, religion, and disabilities. The QRC provides access to a support system of peers and allies to strengthen the networks of LGBTQI+ students at CCSF. In addition, the QRC acts as a center of education for and about the queer community through peer-led teachings, workshops, sexual health education and linkage to community resources.
The TransLatin@ Coalition (TLC) was founded in 2009 by a group of Transgender and Gender nonconforming and Intersex (TGI) immigrant women in Los Angeles, California, as a grassroots response to address the specific needs of TGI Latin@ immigrants who live in the United States.
Since then, the agency has become a nationally recognized organization with representation in 10 different states across the U.S. and provides direct services to TGI individuals in Los Angeles. In 2015, The TransLatin@ Coalition identified the urgent need to provide direct services to empower TGI people in response to structural, institutional, and interpersonal violence, and the Center for Violence Prevention and Transgender Wellness was born. Since then, the organization has secured funding from the state and local government sources as well as several private foundations and organizations to provide direct services to all TGI individuals in Los Angeles County (LAC). TLC’s primary focus is to change the landscape of access to services for TGI people and provide access to comprehensive resource and services that will improve the quality of life of TGI people. The Castro LGBTQ Cultural District is being created with the intent of preserving, sustaining, and promoting the LGBTQ history and culture of the broader Castro district. The creation of the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District will highlight the structures and sites important to this history; foster racial, ethnic and cultural diversity among its residents and businesses; and create a safe, beautiful, and inclusive space for LGBTQ and allied communities, from those who call this neighborhood home to those who visit it from around the world.
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