Lgbtq youth conferences mass
Karen Chen
Commissioner
Karen Chen is Executive Director of Chinese Progressive Association (CPA). CPA is a grassroots community-based organization that works for full equality and empowerment of the Chinese people in the greater Boston area and beyond. Karen’s development began as a 10 year-old when she immigrated to the US and became de facto interpreter and advocate for her immigrant working class family, later honing her leadership and organizing skills as a youth intern with Coalition of Asian and Pacific American Youth and the Chinese Youth Initiative, a paralegal at Greater Boston Legal Services’ Asian Outreach Unit, and Tenant Service Coordinator at the Castle Square Apartments in the South End.
Karen has been involved in many campaigns that’s integral to CPA’s work. Together with workers, she helped dislocated Power-One electronic manufacturing workers defeat $1Million retraining fund followed by improved unemployed benefits for other electronic manufacturing workers, anti-wage theft protections for immigrant workers, and helped unionize the first privately owned abode care agency in Massachusetts in 2015. Together with tenants, she helped numerous fami
Where LGBTQ+ Youth Thrive
Middle School Age Programs
Umbrella is our program for gender diverse, non-binary, and gender questioning middle and high university youth. Schedule: Every Wednesday (except holidays), 6:45-8:30pm
Nexus is our program for Homosexual middle school youth in grades 6 through 8. (Queer history fact: Nexus was the first society program specifically for Diverse middle school youth in Massachusetts!). Schedule: Every Tuesday (except holidays), 6:30-8pm
Drop-in is our unstructured program for LGBTQ+ middle school and high school youth. Attach us for board games, music, books, movies, and videos in our center. Come hang out with friends and mentors! Schedule: Every program night, 6pm until the start of programs.
We host Satellite events for middle and tall school age youth around MetroWest, in rotating locations. Please check out our calendar and join our newsletter for the most up to date information.
NAGLY Awarded Grant By Cummings Foundation
We're so excited and grateful that NAGLY was awarded a 10-year, $450,000 grant from Cummings Foundation (that's $45,000/year). We couldn't be happier or prouder about all that it will mean for LGBTQIA+ youth.
What is even more remarkable is that, out of the 150 grant recipients this year, NAGLY was one of only 25 organizations to acquire their grant award elevated to a 10-year grant, rather than a 3-year award.
This grant gave NAGLY "The Best Pride Celebration Ever!"
Middle School Mondays
Mondays, 3:30-8:30 PM
NAGLY Salem
Drop-in Hours: Enter hang out with friends or make new ones!
Clubs: Join our Monday clubs, which start at 4:00 PM. No sign-ups needed.
Middle School Group: Join our weekly group meeting. We have different activities every week. Starts at 6:30 PM.
Counseling Services: Check in with our clinicians, whether it be for mental health support, for sexual assault, or relationship support.
The SCENE
Theater Program
SCENE: Territory for Creative Exploration, Narrative, & Expression!
The SCENE program at NAGLY in memor
Butterfly Talks
2nd Thursday of each month at 6:30 pm
Butterfly Talks is room to build friendships and a sense of society for LGBTQ+ people of marginalized genders including women, nonbinary friends, and transsexual men. This includes those that are questionings, multiple gender loving, asexual, or ANY label under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. We welcome anyone that is 18+ and a part of the community, living anywhere to join us!
Learn more about Butterfly Talks
Lotus
2nd Wednesdays of each month at 7 pm
Lotus aims to forge community for all Asian LGBTQ+ communities by creating a cosmos to get together to form friendships as we discuss a multitude of topics; some as serious as the pressures of expectation to light topics like our favorite food. While we acknowledge that “Asian” is an umbrella word encompassing many subcultures. We strive to be inclusive and welcoming of everyone while avoiding beliefs rooted in ethnicism, colorism, or classism. This group welcomes all those of all Asian backgrounds including, but not limited to, those that are biracial, adopted, or immigrants. Those of all sexual orientations, genders, ages, and disabilities as well as those of diverse neurologic
Hybrid Conference – Creating Safe and Supportive Environments for LGBTQ Students – February 25, 2025
February 25, 2025 @ 8:15 am – 2:30 pm
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Registration: 8:15 – 8:45 am
Conference: 8:45 am – 2:30 pm
Attend In Person or Via Zoom
Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School
1050 Westminster St.
Fitchburg, MA 01420
To receive PDPs, participants must attend this conference and the conference, Recognize, Respond, Live, then Thrive: Eradicating the Culture of Microaggressions in the School Community (and Beyond), on February 11, 2025. Members can participate in-person, virtually or by viewing the recording. Following the stay conference, registrants will be emailed a link to view the recorded conference. The recording will be made present for 10 days after the conference.
Speakers
- Jason P. Wheeler, Director, Safe Schools Program for LGBTQ Students
- Sheila Kelly, M.A., LMHC, School Counselor, Former GSA Advisor, Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School
- Tony Leone, Program Director, North Shore Alliance of GLBTQ Youth (NAGLY)
- Catherine Lyons, Esq., Lyons Law Group
- Jai Madden, MSW, LCSW, Adjunct Prof