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Safe Zone/Ally Summit
March 2, 2012

Bayard Rustin Centennial Conference
March 30-31, 2012

Lavender Graduation
April 27, 2012

Out for Work: National LGBT Career Conference
September 2012

Safe Zone Trainings: Creating a More Inclusive Campus Climate for All

Safe Zone Trainings: Creating a More Inclusive Campus Climate for All

Safe Zone 101
February 28, 2012
9:00-10:50 a.m.
Room 385 Behavioral Sciences Building; 3rd floor; take elevators up
Free and open to the public. Register is now closed and at capacity.


Safe Zone/Ally Summit 2012
March 2, 2012
9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Celebration from 3:30-5:00 p.m., Remarks at 4:00 p.m.
$10 (includes lunch, parking, and materials)
Open to the public, UIC community, and the Great Lakes Region Consortium of Higher Education Professionals
Register is now closed and at capacity.


Transgender Safe Zone 101
March 14, 2012
2:30-4:50 p.m.
Room 385 Behavioral Sciences Building; 3rd floor
Free and open to the public. Register here.


Asian American Safe Zone 101
April 5, 2012
Room 119, Behavioral Sciences Building
Free and open to the public. Register here.

UIC is proud to participate in the Safe Zone program. Safe Zone is a training designed to heighten awareness of LGBTQ issues and concerns. Safe Zone is offered regularly and is designed to put a human face on human issues. Safe Zone 101 is primarily presented in lecture format, but activities and interactive discussion are also incorporated into the presentation.

ALL UIC students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to attend this University-sanctioned training. Release time is generally granted according to the Attendance at University Events policy. For more information, please contact University Human Resources.

Is your organization/unit interested in a Safe Zone training? We'd love to do it! E-mail Liz Thomson at lthomson@uic.edu and provide what you would like, a few dates and times. We will reply back to you as soon as we can. We regularly do Safe Zone training for specific UIC units as well as outside the University. While we have a general template, we also can customize it to your unit's or ogranization's community.

Safe Zone 101 Objectives:

1. Providing factual information and correcting misinformation on the
topics of sexual and gender identity;
2. Recognizing problems in the environment that affect LGBTQ individuals;
3. Identifying policies and laws relevant to LGBTQ concerns;
4. Identifying and discussing strategies to reduce hostility toward LGBTQ folx;
5. Acquiring skills and information for making appropriate referrals;
6. Raising awareness of the negative impact of homophobia and heterosexism on all people;
7. Defining terminology on the subject of sexual and gender identity.