Grant will be used to complement the hire of a Central Florida Safe and Healthy Schools Coordinator which will be dedicated to launching a program focused on affecting large-scale, systematic change across the entire Orange, Seminole, and Osceola County Public Schools districts, supervised by statewide Safe and Healthy Schools Program Director.
Grant will go towards hiring a licensed mental health counselor to provide youth-focused culturally and linguistically appropriate services that include individual and family counseling with linkages and referrals in the Latinx Community impacted by the Pulse Tragedy. Additionally, counselor will implement and facilitate the Kaleidoscope group for transgender, gender variant, and gender expansive youth with…
Grant will be used to focus on three programmatic areas: Leadership Development, Building Organizations and Coalition Building to create leadership in LGBTQ, Latinx, and Black communities inside and outside of the existing labor movement. Funds will cover the cost of building organizations that can cultivate and support Black and Latinx LGBTQ workers and leaders. Ultimately,…
This interfaith coalition will use grant to create an advisory committee composed of community representatives of marginalized populations to develop programs regarding Pulse with the purpose of bringing together multiple faith communities for four to six sessions and hosting two major community gatherings. Grant will also cover the translation of their Friends Talking Faith Pulse-related…
Support to hire a part-time Program Coordinator to implement a 6 part conversational education series for 20 Latinx and African American transgender individuals. The top four students would become the “Voices of Bliss” who would then provide cultural competency building trainings to nonprofits on issues impacting the Latinx and African American transgender community and how…
In support of hiring a full-time mental health counselor who is fluent in English and Spanish and LGBTQ culturally competent for a 12-month period – counselor will provide service to Pulse impacted Latinx and LGBTQ Latinx community members at no cost to them at both Two Spirit Health Services and at Proyecto Somos Orlando.