Safe Schools Coalition

Our Mission:

The mission of The Safe Schools Coalition: An international public-private partnership in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth is to help schools - at home and all over the world - become safe places where every family can belong, where every educator can teach, and where every child can learn, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.

Our Role:

We used to be the 'Safe Schools Coalition of Washington,' but now we proudly serve a world-wide constituency -- with some services specifically for our Washington members.

Our role is to reduce bias-based bullying and violence in schools and to help schools better meet the needs of sexual minority youth and children with sexual minority parents/guardians locally, nationally and internationally, by ...

1. providing resources to schools (posters, publications),

2. raising parent/guardian, student, educator and community awareness (list serve, website, public speaking, media),

3. providing skill-based training for educators (administrators and other professional and paraprofessional staff),

4. serving as a technical advisory resource (to researchers, policy-makers, educators and
   activists -- students, parents/guardians, community members), and

5. conducting and disseminating research (to educators, policy-makers and activists).

The Safe Schools Coalition also serves the community within Washington State by ...

6. intervening and advocating on
   behalf of individual students, educators and families experiencing sexual orientation/identity-based harassment and violence, and

7. holding legislators, school boards and school administrators accountable for making schools safe and free of bias-based bullying and violence, through community organizing and principled activism.