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Safe Space NOVA 2023 Q3 Newsletter

Greetings! Summer is whipping by, and now we are almost into fall. With that, Pride Month has passed. It was a great month. I would love to share the highlights. I would also like to talk about our upcoming fall programming and a new member that was added to the team for the summer. First, [...]

By | August 1st, 2023|Community Initiatives, Safe Space Inc. Team|0 Comments

Safe Space NOVA 2023 Q2 Newsletter

Greetings! We are excited to participate once again in this year's Spring2ACTion campaign, and we need your help to reach our goal of $5,000! Spring2ACTion officially takes place on April 26, but you don't have to wait to give--early giving is currently underway! Visit our fundraising page and be one of the first to give! [...]

By | April 20th, 2023|Community Initiatives, Safe Space Inc. Team|0 Comments

Safe Space NOVA 2023 Q1 Newsletter

Greetings! As we embark on our seventh anniversary this March, we know our longstanding service in the Northern Virginia community would not exist without you, our Safe Space NOVA supporters. We're excited to begin another year supporting LGBTQ+ youth through in-person and virtual programming, including our second annual pride prom in June! This year, we [...]

By | February 24th, 2023|Community Initiatives|0 Comments

Safe Space NOVA 2022 Q4 Newsletter

Greetings! Fall is here, and we at Safe Space NOVA are happy to announce that the programs that we have created are flourishing. Over the past few months, we have started the next round of classes for our inclusive sex education course, continued to offer social support groups, and started offering in-person activities. Additionally, we [...]

By | October 19th, 2022|Community Initiatives|0 Comments

Safe Space NOVA 2022 Q3 Newsletter

Greetings! This year we relaunched the regional pride prom after a 2-year pandemic hiatus. That means that prior to this year, the last students who could have attended the pride prom were freshman in 2019. As a cross-county event that is not affiliated with any schools, we had to get the word out to students [...]

By | August 6th, 2022|Community Initiatives|0 Comments

Download our FY2021 Annual Report!

This year was a year full of great accomplishments! In 2021, we successfully launched our inclusive sex education series called “You + Me =We: Queer Sex Ed” in partnership with Doorways of Arlington. Additionally, Safe Space NOVA launched the LGBTQ+ Social Support Group in partnership with Pride Liberation Project, a student lead advocacy organization. The group [...]

By | June 10th, 2022|Safe Space Inc. Team|0 Comments

#TellYourStoryTuesday featuring Jack Hessler

May 10, 2022 Organizations like Safe Space NOVA are life-changing and life-saving. In one’s quest to accept and express who they are, there’s nothing more important than representation and support. Finding any community of queer people is one of the most important steps in moving past the internalized queerphobia that our society embeds in us. [...]

By | May 10th, 2022|#TellYourStoryTuesday|0 Comments

#TellYourStoryTuesday featuring Rachel Hirschkind

April 26, 2022 My name is Rachel Hirschkind and I’m a 21-year-old lesbian who competes collegiately for the State University of New York College at Geneseo, who is currently obtaining a Bachelor of Science in chemistry. I come from a small town about an hour north of New York City. I knew I was queer [...]

By | April 26th, 2022|#TellYourStoryTuesday|0 Comments

Safe Space NOVA 2022 Q2 Newsletter

Greetings! We are excited to participate in this year's Spring2ACTion campaign, and we need your help to reach our goal of $10,000! Spring2ACTion officially takes place on April 27, but you don't have to wait to give--early giving is currently underway! Visit our fundraising page and be one of the first to give! All giving [...]

By | April 14th, 2022|Community Initiatives, Safe Space Inc. Team|0 Comments

#TellYourStoryTuesday featuring Zak Salih

April 5, 2022 When I was in high school, in the mid-to-late-1990s, being gay wasn’t an identity. It was the punchline to a joke. Gay boys were boys who couldn’t catch a football, or who were good at English and math, or who kept to themselves in the library. So imagine my joy at discovering, [...]

By | April 5th, 2022|#TellYourStoryTuesday|0 Comments