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The organization “Safe Schools Desert Cities” works to empower local LGBT youth, offering scholarships and financial assistance awards.
News Channel 3’s Peter Daut spoke with the organization’s president, Eric Ornelas, about the work they do.
SSDC was featured in a Desert Sun article after receiving a general support grant from the Inland Empire Community Foundation. The article highlighted our mission, events, and the success story of Carly Jacobs, who said, “[Safe Schools Desert Cities] gave me hope in a future where I would be supported.”
The Unitarian Universalist Church of the Desert hosted a special online screening of Mama Gloria, a documentary film about Gloria Allen, a Black transgender activist who started a charm school for transgender youth. Afterwards, the Reverend Barbara Fast, was joined by Allen, the filmmaker Luchina Fisher, Palm Springs Mayor Pro Tem Lisa Middleton, and SSDC President Eric Ornelas for a panel discussion. The church donated the proceeds to Safe Schools Desert Cities.
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All-volunteer organization, Safe Schools Desert Cities has been empowering local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex youth (LGBTQI+), their allies and GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) advisors since 2012. The organization works to create opportunities that foster individual growth as well as create community. These goals are achieved by providing education, guidance, advocacy, resources, recreational activities and opportunities for self-expression.
by: Rebecca O’Conner | Inland Empire Community Foundation
Originally Published 04/24/2020 – www.desertsun.com
A Coachella Valley organization that works to create an inclusive environment for youth in schools and in their communities needs support to help its growing program. Read Article on Desert Sun Official Website.
PO Box 1662
Palm Springs, CA 92263
Safe Schools Desert Cities Corp is a registered non‐profit 501(c)(3) public charity organization and contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Originally from Desert Sun – View Post
A Coachella Valley organization that works to create an inclusive environment for youth in schools and in their communities needs support to help its growing program.
For more than a decade, Safe Schools Desert Cities has offered LGBTQ+ students and their allies opportunities that create community and encourage individual growth through education, guidance, advocacy, resources and recreational and self-expression activities.
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