SafeZone Training
Back by Popular Demand: Safe Zone Training!
VirTual Safe Zone is an online 5-week intensive course with weekly readings, writings, and a live discussion lab. The curriculum is meant to assist with the development of content knowledge. The course curriculum delivers basic information to begin your development of content knowledge, readings are meant to help deepen your scope of the topic, discussion board(s) and their reflective writings provide the opportunity to explore your thoughts, feelings, and questions, and live weekly discussions engage you in conversation with one another and allow for questions to be proffered to the group.
Next Virtual Training: June 28th to July 30th!
For more information, visit https://ccc.vt.edu/resources/safe_zone.html. Please also contact LGBTQ+ Resource Center Director Dr. Bing Bingham at anbingham@vt.edu if you are interested in the next training session. Register for Safe Zone courses through the Professional Development Network at https://profdev.tlos.vt.edu/.
Current Offerings
VirTual Safe Zone 101--This is for anyone wanting to learn more about the LGBTQ+ community. Topics addressed in the 101 training include common LGBTQ+ terms, how sex and gender are distinct, the costs of cis/straight privilege, the coming out process, and being an inclusive ally. This course is delivered online over five weeks and includes a weekly zoom discussion.
VirTual Trans Safe Zone 101--An online five-week course addressing transgender identities and issues. This course aims to introduce participants to contemporary introductory information regarding gender minorities; contextualize this new/refreshed knowledge with some of the complexity and nuanced characteristics of these elements; provide the opportunity to engage in introspective or reflective thinking; and encourage active allyship during and after the course has ended