Division of Student Affairs

WUC 203 | 503-838-8221 | wou.edu/student |

The Division of Student Affairs fosters students’ academic, personal, and professional growth. They aim to educate students to recognize, respect, and appreciate diversity, as well as prepare students to be responsible and engaged citizens in a global community. The Division of Student Affairs includes departments such as Abby’s House, Student Engagement, Disability Services, and many more.

Bias Incident Report Form

Use this form to report an incident of bias if it is an act of conduct, speech, or expression that targets an individual or group based on their actual or perceived race/color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity/expression, age, disability, or sexual orientation.

https://wou.edu/dei/bias-incident-report/

Abby’s House

WUC 106 | 503-838-8219 | wou.edu/abbyshouse | Instagram

Abby’s House provides the WOU community with educational programming, information, and referral services designed to promote equity and non-violence. Abby’s House helps provide resources for issues such as sexual violence, relationship violence, sexual harassment, child abuse, stalking, stress, anxiety, depression, suicide women’s health, breast cancer, contraception, STD testing, substance abuse, eating disorders, and gender identity.

Stonewall Center

WUC 110 | 503-838-8219 | wou.edu/student-engagement/programs/stonewall-center |  Instagram

The Stonewall Center provides resources, support, and advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community at WOU through compassionate, educational experience and an engaging community environment. The Stonewall Center is located on the first floor of the WUC and is equipped with comfortable couches, games, and people to get support from and talk to.

Triangle Alliance

trianglealliance@wou.edu | https://today.wou.edu/2016/04/26/wou-triangle-alliance/  | Facebook Page | Instagram 

Triangle Alliance is a student-run organization that aims to create a space for member and allies of the LGBTQ+ community to feel safe, welcome, and connected. It is a club on campus that acts as a social network focused on acceptance, equality, and education. Triangle Alliance’s meetings are once weekly and the day, time, and room used are varied by term.

Wolf Pride Network

WOU Pride Network Instagram Page

The Wolf Pride Network is an LGBTQ+ organization for WOU faculty and staff to gather and build relationships with one another, provide presence and support to LGBTQ+ students, and create positive change on campus. We do this by having regular meetings and socials to build connections between faculty and staff members, promoting a welcoming community to new LGBTQ+ faculty and staff, advocating for positive change on campus to serve LGBTQ+ students, and participating in campus events.

Black Student Union (BSU)

Black Student Union Instagram Page

Our goal: The Black Student Union exists to promote cultural awareness, political awareness, and to provide support for all students and the community. We extend open arms to all students, faculty and staff of all ethnic backgrounds.

FEM in STEM

https://wou.edu/feminstem/ | Instagram

FEM in STEM Mission:

FEM in STEM works on the Western Oregon University campus to connect and support female, non-binary, and other underserved and ally students in STEM fields. Our focus is on education, support, and community connection to tangible STEM role models who have a variety of careers and career paths.

Multicultural Student Services and Programs (MSSP)

https://wou.edu/multicultural/mcrs/cultural-connections/ | Instagram

The office of Multicultural Student Services & Programs is committed to the recruitment, retention and graduation of historically underrepresented & underserved populations by providing educational opportunities and outstanding programming for ethnically and culturally diverse students. MSSP strives to enrich the undergraduate experience and foster a supportive environment for students of color to live, learn and grow as active members of the Western Oregon University community and as individuals.

Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (JEDI)

https://wou.edu/education/jedi/

The office of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion centers anti-racism and anti-colonialism in our college. By placing justice first, we amplify the need to name oppression and remove barriers for students, staff, and faculty who traditionally experience inequity, invisibility, and harm in institutions of higher education.

Unidos

Unidos Facebook

Unidos Club is a support system to anyone who identifies as undocumented and/or are DACA recipients. We welcome allies who want to contribute to our cause.

Multicultural Student Union (MSU)

https://wou.edu/msu/ |

To promote diversity and cultural awareness throughout the Western Oregon University campus and the surrounding community. MSU gives students, faculty and staff an opportunity to share their cultural background while learning about others.

Student Health and Counseling Center

| Health Center: 503-838-8313 | Counseling Center: 503-838-8396 | wou.edu/student/health |

The Student Health and Counseling Center provides support to students for medical and counseling needs, as well as provide health education, events, and prevention services. The Student Health and Counseling Center contains a Rest and Relaxation Room where students can make an appointment and enjoy a massage chair, therapy lighting, biofeedback equipment, or just a calming environment to listen to music and relax in.

Campus Public Safety

| Emergency: 503-838-9000 | Main Office: 503-838-8481 | wou.edu/safety |

Campus Public Safety is responsible for public safety, emergency preparedness, risk management, and parking enforcement. Campus Public Safety provides services such as emergency assistance and safety escorting.

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Salem Capitol Pride

• Salem Capital Pride – Salem Capitol Pride is a queer-led non-profit group in Salem, Oregon that celebrates the LGBTQ+ Community through events, dissemination of information, and community partnerships.

Youth ERA Salem

• The Salem Drop | Youth Era – A youth-focused program of services that includes a drop-in center, crisis services, online support, wrap around services, training and technical assistance for youth-serving groups and agencies

TransPonder

• TransPonder – Eugene – TransPonder is a transgender founded and led nonprofit based in Eugene, Oregon providing support, resources, and education for the transgender and gender diverse community and our allies.

 Mid Willamette Trans Support Network

• Welcome to the Mid Willamette Transgender Support Network – Mid-Willamette Trans Support Network was founded in 2016, by and for gender-diverse people, to provide for the needs and security of transgender, nonbinary, intersex, gender-diverse, and gender-nonconforming members of our community.

PFLAG Portland

• PFLAG Portland – PFLAG is the nation’s largest and oldest peer-to-peer support network, uniting the LGBTQ+ community with families, friends, and allies. PFLAG works to ensure that all people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer are not only valued by society but take pride in and value themselves.

Multnomah County Library

• Multnomah County Library – The Multnomah County Library has compiled a list of nonfiction books for preschoolers to middle schoolers about including LGBTQ+ Individuals. This is a good resource for educators and parents who want to introduce LGBTQ+ topics to their classrooms or homes.

 TransActive Gender Project

• TransActive Gender Project • Lewis & Clark – The TransActive Gender Project at Lewis & Clark provides a holistic range of services and expertise to empower transgender and gender-expansive children, youth, and their families in living healthy lives that are free of discrimination. This project offers in-person and online professional development training to educators with the goal of establishing safe, supportive, and empowering environments in which gender-expansive children, youth, and their peers can thrive. In addition, the TransActive Gender Project offers bi-weekly family support groups for adult family members (parents, caregivers, aunts/uncles, siblings, etc) of transgender, gender-expansive, queer, and non-binary children and youth to share their hopes (and fears), be their true self, ask questions, and to take the steps towards a more fulfilling, connected life.

 Q Center

• Q Center – As the largest LGBTQ+ community center in the Pacific Northwest, Q Center proudly serves the LGBTQ2SIA+ communities of Portland Metro and Southwest Washington. Q Center also serves as an information hub for friends, partners, community, and family members of LGBTQ2SIA+ individuals.

(SMYRC) New Avenues for Youth

• SMYRC | New Avenues For Youth – The Sexual & Gender Minority Youth Resource Center (SMYRC) offers a safe space for queer and trans youth ages 13-23 to engage in activities like creating art, playing music, and joining an open mic night, as well as attending drag shows and support groups. In addition, SMYRC offers mental-health services by appointment. Check out the SMYRC calendar to see what upcoming events they are putting on or attend one of their drop in services for immediate support.

Oregon LGBTQ+ Resources

• Oregon LGBTQ+ Resources – This website is a collaboration between Oregon Family Support Network (OFSN) and the Family Acceptance Project® (FAP) to increase family support for LGBTQ children and youth in Oregon to decrease health and mental health risks and to promote well-being. The Oregon LGBTQ Resources guide offers support to diverse youth and their families to build the capacity to support and affirm their LGBTQ children and to increase parent-peer support for parents, families, and caregivers with LGBTQ children and youth with behavioral health, emotional and developmental needs.

Basic Rights Oregon

• Basic Rights Oregon – Basic Rights Oregon works fearlessly and tirelessly to build a strong, vibrant, powerful, and progressive movement for LGBTQ+ equality. Based in Portland, Oregon, Basic Rights Oregon offers resources to employers and educators seeking training on how to create a more LGBTQ+-affirming workplace, as well as offers up-to-date news on Oregon Rights policies and current local events concerning the LGBTQ+ community.

Oregon Safe Schools

• Oregon Safe Schools and Communities Coalition – A coalition of public and private organizations in Oregon that supports community efforts to reduce youth suicide and risk behaviors for LGBTQ youth. Provides education, data collection, and support services to create safe schools and communities for youth, teachers, and families.

ODE Guidance for Schools

• Supporting Gender Expansive Students: Guidance for Schools : Civil Rights : State of Oregon – Developed in partnership with students, families, school districts, community-based organizations, and state agency partners, this guidance is grounded in the civil rights of students to be free from gender identity-based discrimination when pursuing their education. This guidance provides assistance to districts in fostering educational environments that are safe, free from discrimination, and aligned with state and federal laws.

OHSU Inclusive Language Guide

• Inclusive Language Guide | OHSU – The OHSU Inclusive Language Guide is a tool for learning and using inclusive language in professional communications. Written for use within OHSU facilities, the Inclusive Language Guide offers an in-depth glossary of proper and improper uses of words relating to sexual orientation and gender identity that will aid in the awareness and inclusivity of those working within the state.

ODE LGBTQ2SIA+ Resources

• Oregon Department of Education : LGBTQ2SIA+ Resources – Information on this webpage seeks to clarify the legal requirements and LGBTQ2SIA+ student rights related to safe and inclusive environments; link to related content standards; uplift local and national LGBTQ2SIA+ data; share local resources to foster resilience and connection; support administrators and educators with resources, sample instructional materials, and professional development opportunities; empower youth to understand their rights and find joy in their identities; connect parents and caregivers to culturally sustaining supports; and expand access to mental health supports in and outside of school for LGBTQ2SIA+ students and communities, in alignment with the LGBTQ2SIA+ Student Success Plan.

Welcoming Schools

• Welcoming Schools – HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools is the most comprehensive bias-based bullying prevention program in the nation to provide LGBTQ+ and gender inclusive professional development training, lesson plans, booklists and resources specifically designed for educators and youth-serving professionals. Our program uses an intersectional, anti-racist lens dedicated to actionable policies and practices. We uplift school communities with critical tools to embrace family diversity, create LGBTQ+ and gender inclusive schools, prevent bias-based bullying, and support transgender and non-binary students.

Transgender Training Institute

• Open Enrollment – Transgender Training Institute, Inc. – The Transgender Training Institute (TTI) is a proudly trans-centered business working to contribute to a more just, equitable, and affirming world. TTI combines topical expertise and lived experiences, formal training as educators, intersectional social justice values, and decades of facilitation experience to provide professional development and personal growth training that provide participants with information and skills needed to be better prepared to affirm the transgender and non-binary people in their lives. TTI offers online and in-person training (pay what you can and paid opportunities) for gender inclusion in K-12 school environments, as well as opportunities for health and mental health providers, families, and work environments.

The Trevor Project

• LGBTQ Ally Training for Youth-Serving Professionals – The Trevor Project offers training to educators and other faculty groups on how to become comfortable with using inclusive terminology, as well as other parts of what makes a good LGBTQ+ ally.

We Teach NYC

• Yes! But How? Professional Learning Plan | WeTeachNYC – Yes! But How? Professional Learning Plan provides two days of professional learning for educators and other school staff on the LGBTQ+ Inclusion for Educators, which is a collaborative project between the NYCDOE Office of Safety & Youth Development and the Office of Curriculum, Instruction, & Professional Learning written by LGBTQ+ author and curator Hugh Ryan and illustrated by artist Cristy Road. Yes! But How? is written for K–12 teachers and administrators to help support the development of LGBTQ+ inclusive and affirming school environments. This professional learning plan provides links to all relevant materials and resources as well as detailed instructions for facilitators.

Gender Spectrum

• Gender Spectrum – Gender Spectrum is a national organization committed to the health and well-being of gender- diverse children and teens through education and support for families, and training and guidance for educators, medical and mental health providers, and other professionals.

ADL

• LGBTQ+ Pride Month and Education Resources | ADL – ADL offers classroom resources to educators such as lesson plans on how to properly bring LGBTQ+ pride month to the classroom

Learning For Justice

• BEST PRACTICES FOR SERVING LGBTQ STUDENTS – This resource offers lists of resources in an appendix style that help bring inclusive topics on LGBTQ+ media, history, language, and community into the classroom.

CDC

• Creating Safe Schools for LGBTQ+ Youth | DASH | CDC – The CDC offers a brief guideline that provides key learning objectives that schools and school districts can incorporate in their PD offerings to help teachers and other school staff build core competencies for supporting LGBTQ+ youth in schools. The website flows through four learning objectives with added resources and links for a deep examination of LGBTQ+ support.

Advocates for Youth

• Creating Safer Spaces for LGBTQ Youth – This Toolkit has been developed to assist individuals, community-based organizations, providers, healthcare staff, educators, and others that see the value of incorporating key safer space components into their organizations so that young people survive and thrive. Recommendations serve as a guide and should be tailored to each individual young person and organizational setting.

It Gets Better Project

• About – It Gets Better – The It Gets Better Project is a nonprofit organization with a mission to uplift and empower lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth around the globe. The website offers educators and student leaders easy-to-access and easy-to-use resources, information, and more – all in support of LGBTQ+ students everywhere. Some of the resources include a glossary of inclusive language and a resource guide on how to make your classroom more LGBTQ-friendly.

Movement Advancement Project

• Movement Advancement Project | State Profiles – Resource with direct links to LGBTQ+ protection laws in Oregon and how they compare to other states. Great for a better idea of Oregon policies and basic rights. Can be used by educators for a quick understanding of rights within the classroom.

Movement Advancement Project (MAP)

• Oregon’s Equality Profile

Basic Rights Oregon:

• Basic Rights Oregon

ODE Support and Safety Plan:

• Student Support and Safety Plan Template

Supporting LGBTQ2SIA+ Students in Oregon:

• ODE-Supporting-LGBTQ2SIA-Students (oregon.gov)

ACLU LGBTQ Student Rights:

• LGBTQ Students’ Rights | ACLU of Oregon (aclu-or.org)