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SUMMARY:National American Indian Heritage Month
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SUMMARY:National Adoption Month
DESCRIPTION:National Adoption Month is an initiative of the Children’s Bureau that seeks to increase national awareness of adoption issues\, bring attention to the need for adoptive families for teens in the U.S. foster care system\, and emphasize the value of youth engagement. The initiative began as National Adoption Week in 1984\, as proclaimed by President Reagan. President Clinton then proclaimed the first National Adoption Month in 1995. In recent years\, we have focused our efforts on adoption for teens because we know that teens in foster care wait longer for permanency than younger children and are at higher risk of aging out. Teens need love\, support\, and a sense of belonging that families can provide. Securing lifelong connections for these teens\, both legally and emotionally\, is a critical component in determining their future achievement\, health\, and well-being. \nEach year\, we focus our outreach and awareness efforts on a new adoption-related theme to help support professionals working each day to find permanency for children and youth in foster care in their communities. This year’s National Adoption Month theme is “Small Steps Open Doors.” Pursuing permanency for teens can be challenging\, but small steps along the way can make all the difference. Taking the time to talk with and listen to youth can help you earn their trust and help the youth become more engaged in their own permanency planning. It can also create an environment where youth can be honest and ask questions. Youth are the experts of their own lives\, so let them partner with you in permanency planning and make decisions about their lives. (Child Welfare.Gov)
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SUMMARY:Transgender Day of Remembrance
DESCRIPTION:“Transgender Day of Remembrance seeks to highlight the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and violence. I am no stranger to the need to fight for our rights\, and the right to simply exist is first and foremost. With so many seeking to erase transgender people — sometimes in the most brutal ways possible — it is vitally important that those we lose are remembered\, and that we continue to fight for justice.” \n– Transgender Day of Remembrance founder Gwendolyn Ann Smith  \nCreate a Safe Environment for LGBTQI+ Youth  \nIt is important to build a safe environment for all LGBTQI+ youth.  Parents\, schools\, and communities can all play a role in preventing bullying and helping LGBTQI+ youth feel physically and emotionally safe.  \n\nEncourage respect for all students. \nProhibit bullying\, harassment\, and violence against all students. \n\n\nConduct social-emotional learning activities in school to foster peer-relationships and help students develop empathy. \nIdentify “safe spaces\,” such as counselors’ offices or designated classrooms\, where LGBTQI+ youth can receive support from administrators\, teachers\, or other school staff. \nEncourage student-led and student-organized school clubs that promote a safe\, welcoming\, and accepting school environment (e.g.\, gay-straight alliances or gender and sexuality alliances). Schools must allow these clubs or groups if they have other “non-curricular” clubs or groups. Learn more about the right to form a GSA under the Equal Access Act. \nEnsure that health curricula or educational materials include HIV\, other STD/STI\, and pregnancy prevention information that is relevant to LGBTQI+ youth. \nUse inclusive language and avoid making assumptions. The words we use can make help people feel acknowledged and create a sense of belonging. For example\, using “y’all” when referring to a group conveys gender equality rather than using “guys.” Use gender-neutral pronouns like “they” or “them” instead of “he/she” or “him/her.” You can also use words like “parent” instead of “mother” and “father.” \nUse students’ chosen names and pronouns. \nTrain school staff on how to create safe and supportive school environments for all students\, including LGBTQI+ youth. \nFacilitate access to community-based providers who have experience providing health services\, including medical\, counseling\, social\, and psychological services\, and HIV/STI testing for LGBTQI+ youth. \n\nResources/links  \n\n‘A Murder Over a Girl\,’ by Ken Corbett – The New York Times (nytimes.com) \n\n\nTransgender Day of Remembrance 2021 | PFLAG \nTransgender Day of Remembrance | GLAADText \n\nTo learn more from our JEDI page\, please click here.
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