Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:51:20 -0800 From: Jean Richter Subject: 12/10/99 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. New email list for HIV positive youth 2. NY: Youth risk behavior survey controversial to some schools ============================================================================ From: SARATOGANY@aol.com Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 07:02:56 EST Subject: New Email List Provides Support for Youth Living With HIV To: SARATOGANY@aol.com, bdm3g@gateway.net Message forward by: The Coalition for Safer Schools of NYS PO Box 2345 Malta, NY 12020 Email to: saratogany@aol.com *** PLEASE REPOST FAR AND WIDE *** December 1, 1999 Today on World AIDS Day, Youth Guardian Services launches its newest project: The POSITIVE YOUTH Email List. The POSITIVE YOUTH Email List is the latest addition to the extremely popular youth-only support and discussion email listservs operated by Youth Guardian Services (YGS). The POSITIVE YOUTH Email List has been created to provide a safe space for young people 25 years old or younger living with HIV. The support and discussion email list caters to the unique needs of HIV+ youth to talk to other young people with similar situations and experiences. "While a lot of online resources exist with regard to HIV prevention and education, there are no known established online support groups that are specific to youth living with HIV," said Jason Hungerford, the Executive Director of Youth Guardian Services. "That is where we come in, and we have created a project based around that void that was there. A resource like this is very much needed." The POSITIVE YOUTH Email List is restricted to youth 25 years old or younger who are HIV+. To subscribe, send an email to listproc@youth-guard.org with the message (without the quotes) "subscribe positive YOUR NAME" in the body of your email message. For more info about this new list, send an email to listproc@youth-guard.org with the message (without the quotes) "info positive" in the body of your email message. With the new POSITIVE YOUTH Email List, Youth Guardian Services will provide the same kind of high quality peer support that we have provided to nearly 5,000 youth for the last three years. Whatever the situation may be, each list subscriber can expect to receive a list full of young people ready to offer friendship, advice, or just a kind listening ear. If you're a young person living with HIV and you want to talk to people your own age in similar situations -- this list will be there for you, listen, and be a friendly support line that you can count on. To subscribe to the POSITIVE YOUTH List: Send email to listproc@youth-guard.org With the message: subscribe positive YOUR NAME Please note that the subscribe command must be in the body of your email message and NOT the subject line. Replace "YOUR NAME" with your own name or email address. For more information about the POSITIVE YOUTH Email List visit http://www.youth-guard.org/youth/positive/ Youth Guardian Services is a youth-run, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides support services on the Internet to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, questioning, and straight supportive youth. The organization operates solely on private donations from individuals. For more information about Youth Guardian Services, please visit our website at http://www.youth-guard.org ================================================================================ From: SARATOGANY@aol.com Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 09:02:26 EST Subject: Schenectady: Behavior survey for area students still controversial (please read) To: SARATOGANY@aol.com, bdm3g@gateway.net The below article is about a CDC-Prevention's Youth Risk Behavioral Survey to be given at Scotia-Glenville and Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake. The concern with the survey is that some questions had dealt with sexual behavior of students. In lieu of sexual behavior questions, questions about GLB school safety issues should be included in this survey. The questions should be similar to those used in VT and MA. One question should be one that breaks out GLB students from non-gay students. Thereafter, questions about: Attempted suicide in past year Required medical attention as a result of suicide attempt Skipped school in past month because of feeling unsafe on route to or at school In a physical fight resulting in treatment by a doctor or nurse Was threatened/injured with a weapon at school in past year Carried a weapon at school in the past 30 days Property stolen or damaged at school Did not go to school because felt unsafe Used alcohol in past year Used illegal drugs in past year These added questions, especially the one that breaks out gay vs non-gay would provide a meaningful and recorded assessment of the plight of GLB students in school. I hope that you (those in the Capital Region) are able to bring this to the attention of those charged with the survey content and application of the survey. John Myers Director of Operations and Programs CSS-NYS ================================================== Schenectady Daily Gazette 12/1/99 Behavior survey for area students still controversial By SHIRIN PARSAVAND Gazette Reporter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- GLENVILLE - Students in two area school districts likely will face questions on drugs and violence, but not sex, when they take a survey this spring about risky behavior. Questions about sex caused most of a recent controversy here over a survey developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================= Jean Richter -- richter@eecs.berkeley.edu The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project (Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally) These messages are archived by state on our information-loaded free web site: http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/