PFLAG Launches First-of-its-Kind Safe Schools Initiative & Training Program

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PFLAG Launches First-of-its-Kind Safe Schools Initiative & Training Program

http://www.klfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=9497522&nav=menu61_11
12/10/2008

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) launched a comprehensive, community-based safe schools program today to address a growing epidemic of anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) animus in the nation's schools. The program, entitled Cultivating Respect, includes training seminars for local parents and allies, empowering PFLAG supporters at the local level to work directly with their community leaders and school administrators to protect LGBT students. PFLAG plans trainings across the country in 2009, following initial training sessions held earlier this year in Ohio and Tennessee.