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News and Events
- My Family Matters! School Project
- NEW GROUP FOR YOUTH WITH LGBTQ PARENTS: FLO - Families Like Ours
- Request for Proposals: LGBTQ Parenting Website
- Thank you from Dykes Planning Tykes Committee
- Queer Family Picnic
- Celebrating our families with pride
My Family Matters! Schools Project
My Family Matters! Schools Project is a new initiative to make schools LGBTQ family-friendly. We're bursting onto the scene with our first event, a FREE kid-powered art extravaganza and parade on Family Day, Monday, February 18, 2008 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.
Indoor family-friendly activities (art, music, costumes, food) from 10:00 - 12:00, followed by a parade into Nathan Phillips Square at 12:30. We are inviting media to be present only at the parade.
Please come join us and let's make sure Family Day is for everyone! AND...we have created a FREE sheet of eleven full-colour, queer-positive Valentines for children. See poster for a couple of samples. We're really excited about getting them out to kids, and into schools and the rest of the world.
Help spread the love!
Valentines can be picked up at:
Sherbourne Health Centre (see Geoff or Rachel)
333 Sherbourne St.
and at 519 Church St. Community Centre (see Chris
or Claire) 519 Church St.
For more info about the My Family Matters! Schools Project, contact Shira Spector at schools_project@yahoo.com.
FLO - Families Like Ours
A new group for youth age 13-18 who are the children of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transsexual parents. Read more
Request for Proposals: LGBTQ Parenting Website
Website Design, Technical
Programming and Maintenance
Sherbourne Health Centre, the 519 Community Centre and Family Service Association of Toronto have formed a partnership to support LGBTQ parents and children. We are developing a new stand-alone website to provide information, resources, and opportunities for networking for LGBTQ families in Toronto and beyond. The website will incorporate materials from previous websites but will require a new name, look, graphics, etc. as well as additional features.
We are seeking proposals from companies that have the capacity to provide graphic design, technical functionality and ongoing maintenance of this website.
Requirements
Design of overall look and graphics for the website (yet to be named)
that will be appealing to LGBTQ parents and service providers, will be
user friendly and easy to update.
Incorporate of several pages from former website into new website with
appropriate changes, see www.fsatoronto.com/programs/lgbtparenting.html.
Provide graphic and technical design of new pages, interactive features,
lookup capability, and online ordering/registration forms. Examples
of website pages:
- Monthly News & Events page
- Capacity to upload brochures, posters, handouts, newsletter, etc for printing by consumers
- Online ordering system for hard copies of brochures, posters etc
- Monthly E-newsletter (with downloadable archives)
- Research section with reports, links and invitations to participate in studies
- Workshops, Courses & Groups with online registration system
- Interactive message boards for parents to meet each other and network on line.
- Gallery of photos, stories, etc
Offer timely, accurate updating of content as new projects emerge or are completed, or as new information becomes available.
Create capacity for staff to upload new items themselves for routine items or updates.
Process
Please send a letter of interest indicating your company’s experience
in all aspects of the work and your suitability for this project. Please
provide links to past work and indicate your initial ideas, time line and
a tentative budget or fee schedule. References from former clients
would be helpful. Chosen candidates will be interviewed by a panel
representing the partners.
Email proposals to: parentingnetwork@sherbourne.on.ca by September 24, 2007
Attention: Rachel Epstein, LGBTQ Parenting Network Coordinator, Sherbourne
Health Centre, Toronto.
Thank you from Dykes Planning Tykes Committee
Thank you to all the dykes and tykes and everybody else who walked with us and cheered us on at the Dyke March on June 23! It was a beautiful celebration of our communities, our families and our children!
We are putting together a collection of photos (and video clips!) from the day, so if you have some you'd be willing to share, please send them to: parentingnetwork@sherbourne.on.ca or mail to LGBTQ Parenting Network, 333 Sherbourne, Toronto, M5A 2S5. For those of you still wanting t-shirts, we are planning a reprint!
Queer Family Picnic
Join us for a Back-to-School Queer Family Picnic, Sunday September
16, 2007.
Time: 10:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Location: Dufferin Grove Park
(on Dufferin St., South of Bloor and across Dufferin Mall)
Bring your own picnic, blanket and games. We'll provide small snacks and drinks. See you there!
Celebrating our families with pride!
SEND BIRTH/ADOPTION ANNOUNCEMENTS for Pride & Joy
Pride'Joy, the Newsletter of LGBT Parenting Network, would love to announce new additions to your family. If you have had a child join your family and would like to announce their arrival, please send an electronic photo and wording for an announcement to parentingnetwork@sherbourne.on.ca
