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Safe Zone

What is Safe Zone?

The Western Oregon University Safe Zone program builds a culture of continual learning that focuses on the lives, experiences, and intersections of LGBTQIA+ identities. We strive to create ongoing training and educational opportunities, improve campus outreach efforts, and provide inclusive spaces for LGBTQIA+ students, faculty, staff, and community members.

Our Vision:

To create ongoing training and educational opportunities, improve campus outreach efforts, and provide inclusive spaces for LGBTQIA+ students, faculty, staff, and community members.

What does Safe Zone do?

Safe Zone facilitates training sessions on LGBTQIA+ inclusivity. Our trainings are broken up into 3 different sessions. The first one is the Red training, which focuses on pronouns, terminology, and resources, the second is the Yellow training, which focuses on the binary and intersectionality, and the last one is the Blue training which focuses on microaggressions, power, and privilege. Safe Zone also hosts events on and off campus centered around the LGBTQIA+ community.

How can I participate?

We invite anyone interested in playing a more active role to begin by attending our bi-monthly Safe Zone committee meetings. We also encourage everyone to attend events that Safe Zone hosts or collaborates with.

Please email safezone@wou.edu if you wish to attend future meetings.

Want to learn more?

Check the links at the top of our page to find WOU campus resources, online materials, and other information about the committee and the WOU LGBTQIA+ community. If you have any questions, feel free to email us at safezone@wou.edu.

Western Oregon University’s Land Acknowledgement
Western Oregon University in Monmouth, OR is located within the traditional homelands of the Luckiamute Band of Kalapuya. Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855 (Kalapuya etc. Treaty), Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to reservations in Western Oregon. Today, living descendants of these people are a part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians.

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