Haury Grant: Gender Diversity Initiative
A Community Collaboration based in Tucson aims to address the issue of safe, inclusive, and equitable classrooms and learning space for LGBTQIA+ youth.
Project Partners: Lisa Bowden, Publisher and Executive Director, Kore Press and Deanna Lewis, DrPH, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
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Inequitable health disparities continue to persist within Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer+ (LGBTQ+) communities, and within these communities Transgender and Gender Diverse individuals suffer high rates of adversities related to gender identity.
Kore Press Institute is dedicated to social and gender justice through publishing contemporary literature, education, and innovative community collaborations that keep concerns and experiences of the most marginalized at the center. Kore Press Institute seeks funding from the Haury Program Partnering Fund to develop a cohesive and productive partnership with the UA College of Public Health by laying a foundation which addresses the critical aspects of collaborative skill-building and team-building that make a successful project (the Gender Diversity Initiative). We recognize that input from all partners is valuable and necessary, and therefore intend to follow a community-based, facilitated process with a true cross sector at the table for deep and rich conversations from multiple perspectives. The aim is to change culture, mind sets, resource allocation, systems, and health outcomes for safer, more accessible, and inclusive learning environments in order to move the needle on basic safety in Arizona schools for LGBTQ+ youth. |
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This partnership intends to address this pressing need for safer, more inclusive educational ecosystems, environments, and practices cognizant of health outcome disparities for LGBTQ+ youth. We intend to move the needle for our most vulnerable by addressing the root cause of gender-based violence with interventions to affect systemic change: teacher education and policy change.
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Our concerns are comprehensive and inclusive, and therefore intend to address the need as it intersects with race, ability, and gender identities across the spectrum since these populations face disproportionate injustices, bullying, discrimination, and other significant barriers to access living full lives, including the need for basic safety.
Read more, download the project proposal.
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