• Continue the momentum from October's skills-building conference for community service providers on how to expand their capacity to better serve LGBT youth and look at training options. Learn More >>
• Work to establish sustainable, inclusive Gay/Straight Alliances (GSAs) in Hawaii's schools.
• Continue the tour of Hawaii Family Portraits through the University of Hawaii system, Big Island and other locations. Learn More >>
• Continue discussion with the Unversity of Hawaii and other educators on utilizing Hawaii Family Portraits as a conversation starter in the classroom and to develop a more inclusive cirriculum.
• Continue our presence with booths at community festivals, recognizing that only through conversation and dialogue can we true accomplish our mission of changing hearts and minds.
• Produce a legal guide for LGBT people in Hawaii.
• Produce educational materials on civil unions to ensure couples exploring entering into this legal relationship have a seamless experience. Learn More >>
• Continue working with the Department of Health on streamlining the civil union administrative process.
• Continue work with spiritual leaders to spark discussion within faith communities throughout the state.
• Continue dialogue with school administrators on developing training and outreach program to ensure safe, bully-free schools become a reality.
Lisa Grove of Grove Insight with Equality Hawaii Foundation members at the Messaging For Marriage seminar at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii in November of 2011. This was just one of the educational forums produced by Equality Hawaii Foundation.
Media & Other Outreach:
• Conduct trainings on message development as we pivot the community conversation from civil unions to marriage. Research shows that the messages and tactics used to secure civil unions - messages of "equality," "social justice" and "rights" - backfire when discussing marriage. Our stories now need to be about love, commitment and honor. Learn More >>
• Forumulate and launch a strategic marriage education campaign in Hawaii to get real-life stories of LGBT couples out into the community.
• Develop educational public service announcements for television and radio.
• Encourage more local opinion leaders to record It Gets Better videos. Learn More >>
• Continue Equally Speaking, our weekly public access television show produced at 'Olelo Community Media as a forum for the people, places and things affecting Hawaii's LGBT community. The show currently airs on Oahu, Maui, Kauai and The Big Island. Watch Past Episodes >>
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