Hey Everyone,
If you haven't seen E's comment to my last post. This is what he is asking for everyone to do:
To post a bio about yourself, maybe a paragraph or so :D and a picture too.
Wonderful idea E :)
Anymore suggestions?
~sheryll
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Friday, April 27, 2007
Some News and Updates
Aloha :D
By the request of R.E. the mission statement has been posted. Is there anything else, anyone can think of to post on the front page, so that if anyone were to visit the site they would understand what we are all about?
Also,I'm not sure, but I believe invited people can fix things as well? If not let me know and I can do it,just let me know :D.
You can also email me, my email address is found on the agenda's that R.E. sends out. More news and updates later :D.
Have a wonderful day or night ;)
~Sheryll
By the request of R.E. the mission statement has been posted. Is there anything else, anyone can think of to post on the front page, so that if anyone were to visit the site they would understand what we are all about?
Also,I'm not sure, but I believe invited people can fix things as well? If not let me know and I can do it,just let me know :D.
You can also email me, my email address is found on the agenda's that R.E. sends out. More news and updates later :D.
Have a wonderful day or night ;)
~Sheryll
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
today's notes
II. Blog update: Sheryll
Susan posted…
Some invites may be in spam folders.
Sheryll. Can use the blog to write updates. Tried to make it conversational. 3 example posts. If you think of any suggestions to change it, I think all people on it can change it. Also to organize… to talk without phone call.
E: tangible way for everyone to have notes.
Sheryll: can copy & paste mtg notes.
Susan: Blog basics? Tips? Hoping to use it for organizing so people could comment if they’re not on the calls. Useful for process issues.
E: has a blog used more as a diary. You can call or email if you have questions. You can vote on an item using the comments.
III. Flier update: E
E: Used what R.E. already had… made it more square. It’s not a final, looking for suggestions. Catering to whatever specific population.
Chico had seen another flier
E can put it on the blog.
Gustavo – one flier went out that to recruit people for the NCToH
Chico – colorful version w/ quitline number inside a rotary dial, “ignite change.”
Susan – it’s for the National LGBT Tobacco Control Network.
Please make suggestions on the blog by the next Wednesday.
Laura – submit comments and then let E use discretion to incorporate as many as you want. So we can email quickly.
E will send it back by the end of next week.
IV. Ball Planning:
a. Contacts in Minneapolis:
Shiney Shapiro, Program Manager, District 202. www.dist202.org. R.E. will ask to be on the next call.
Damien Hughes, House of Manolo Blahnik – Chico can contact. Will ask him to be on the next call.
Other houses? – Chico will find out
Minneapolis area drag troupes? - R.E. will ask about this.
Holly – heads the new youth tobacco free mvmt with blue cross blue shield. Will probably be heading all youth activities at the NCToH
Susan: thought we were having youth perform, not professionals. Create numbers while there.
R.E.: get seasoned performers to mentor?
Laura: not at a ball setting for learning…. People will show up if you set the categories. The houses will be able to help out. The youth will be prepared to perform.
Chico: main idea I tried to bring up is to have a mini-ball like that. Everything will be based about dealing with tobacco issues in the youth communities. More things catered to youth at this. Like a peep show.
Laura: helped host a mini-ball in D.C. for transgender women. Limited how many members over the age range could come. If wanting it to be a youth ball, this needs to be considered.
Chico: my experience, organizers usually adults. Used to be a house parent so could do a lot of organizing. Will think about categories & how to make this more youth friendly.
Laura: if not asking house parents to perform… might ask them to be judges. To give them a place of honor, but focus on under age 24.
Chico: will send out a copy of a category sheet from a ball.
b. Tobacco prevention / youth marketing related categories for performances
wait until next meeting when we’ve looked at category sheet.
c. Performers: drag, slam poetry, rap, badvertising…
In D.C. people do more open-mics that combine both. Would be difficult to incorporate both in a mini-ball.
Will be open to youth not attending the conference.
Susan: it’s a youth space… will District 202 allow adults?
R.E. will ask Shiney
April: what night?
Susan: whether we could tie the ball into another youth activity at the conference. Would mean that it would have to take place during the national conference, not the summit?
Laura: good question for house parents in the community.
National conference is 2 nights (wed & thurs).
When would we get more people?
Chico: trying to get scholarships for youth to come to summit, and hopefully for the conference.
Laura: need to make it so that youth on this committee could attend.
E: would be good to have non-LGBTI people come. Would be more respectful to find out what the performers would be comfortable. Would be better to have everyone going to both conferences come.
R.E.: Would be helpful to have folks from Minneapolis on the phone calls!
Chico: other clubs where members of houses frequent… to reach out to those folks.
Susan: We should also start planning for the Summit itself.
Will bring this to the blog.
V. How people can participate not on conference calls – blog
E: MySpace? Will set up a MySpace profile and a MySpace Group.
VI. Funding Update
Susan: We’re doing our best to get as much funding as we can. Advocating with a lot of places. It’s just a process.
April: Registration for the national conference scholarships are up:
www.tobaccocontrolconference.org/2007
link on scholarship program.
May 27 = deadline!
E’s putting a bunch of stuff up on the blog.
VII. Next Meeting: Wednesday, May 9 - 6:30 EST / 3:30 PST / 12:30 Hawaii
Phone number: 1-877-791-3294
Passcode: 77350
Apply for the Scholarships
Apply for the scholorships here and get more information too!
Application Deadlines
Scholarship applications must be received no later than August 3, 2007. All awardees will be notified the week of September 3, 2007, and have until September 21, 2007, to reply and accept the scholarship. Failure to meet the notification deadline will result in the withdrawal of the scholarship.
Eligibility Criteria
The Scholarship Subcommittee, guided by the criteria listed below, will have sole discretion in the selection of scholarship recipients.
The following criteria will be used to select scholarship recipients. Preference will be given to applicants who meet some or all of these criteria. The more criteria an applicant meets, the higher the chance of obtaining a scholarship.
* Applicant has an opportunity to improve a tobacco control program or activity, plans to do so after the conference, and makes a clear case that the conference will help in this effort.
* Applicant is a new attendee at a tobacco control conference.
* Applicant is a leader or representative of a community-based tobacco control organization, or an organization that can contribute to community tobacco control objectives, with an annual program budget of $50,000 or less.
* Applicant is a leader or representative of an organization whose constituency includes population groups that are currently disproportionately affected by, or underrepresented within, the tobacco control movement.
Persons who have attended previous tobacco control conferences or who are representatives of larger tobacco control agencies or organizations must present convincing evidence of their lack of financial support to attend the National Conference. As an example, this might include evidence of a ban on out-of-State travel by employees of their agency and a lack of other travel support. Representatives from organizations, such as a volunteers or board members, may be eligible for scholarships in addition to staff.
E
Application Deadlines
Scholarship applications must be received no later than August 3, 2007. All awardees will be notified the week of September 3, 2007, and have until September 21, 2007, to reply and accept the scholarship. Failure to meet the notification deadline will result in the withdrawal of the scholarship.
Eligibility Criteria
The Scholarship Subcommittee, guided by the criteria listed below, will have sole discretion in the selection of scholarship recipients.
The following criteria will be used to select scholarship recipients. Preference will be given to applicants who meet some or all of these criteria. The more criteria an applicant meets, the higher the chance of obtaining a scholarship.
* Applicant has an opportunity to improve a tobacco control program or activity, plans to do so after the conference, and makes a clear case that the conference will help in this effort.
* Applicant is a new attendee at a tobacco control conference.
* Applicant is a leader or representative of a community-based tobacco control organization, or an organization that can contribute to community tobacco control objectives, with an annual program budget of $50,000 or less.
* Applicant is a leader or representative of an organization whose constituency includes population groups that are currently disproportionately affected by, or underrepresented within, the tobacco control movement.
Persons who have attended previous tobacco control conferences or who are representatives of larger tobacco control agencies or organizations must present convincing evidence of their lack of financial support to attend the National Conference. As an example, this might include evidence of a ban on out-of-State travel by employees of their agency and a lack of other travel support. Representatives from organizations, such as a volunteers or board members, may be eligible for scholarships in addition to staff.
E
BALL SURVEY
When would be the best day to have to ball?
Should we invite adults?
Should we invite people from both conferances, and not specifically just from the LGBTQ community?
any other suggestions?
E
(sorry if your getting sick of me):(
Should we invite adults?
Should we invite people from both conferances, and not specifically just from the LGBTQ community?
any other suggestions?
E
(sorry if your getting sick of me):(
Ball what is it for?
What a ball actually is..
The ball scene dates back to as early as the 1920's. The first balls were basically drag pageants, organized and thrown inside of grand ballrooms in Harlem. They were competitive in nature, with structures similar to other events in the Black cultural tradition -- such as cotillions, step shows, and carnivals.
Balls as we know them today are centered around several aesthetic categories, including Face, Body, Realness (which is often a play on Black masculinity), Fashion and Vogue (made popular by the classic Madonna hit by the same name). Cash prizes and trophies are the most common rewards. However, any ball kid (as members of this community refer to themselves) will tell you that the ultimate goal of competition is community recognition and status.
The purpose of our ball...
To incorporate youth into a community that many people dont get to see. We will allow youth (maybe professional adults) to perform sourounding tobacco. Categories will be chosen for the youth to perform under. youth are encouraged to be themselves and express themselves as such.
Specifics still to come.
Have any more input or have any suggestions, quesitons, or still confused? LEAVE A COMMENT.
THANKS ALL
E
The ball scene dates back to as early as the 1920's. The first balls were basically drag pageants, organized and thrown inside of grand ballrooms in Harlem. They were competitive in nature, with structures similar to other events in the Black cultural tradition -- such as cotillions, step shows, and carnivals.
Balls as we know them today are centered around several aesthetic categories, including Face, Body, Realness (which is often a play on Black masculinity), Fashion and Vogue (made popular by the classic Madonna hit by the same name). Cash prizes and trophies are the most common rewards. However, any ball kid (as members of this community refer to themselves) will tell you that the ultimate goal of competition is community recognition and status.
The purpose of our ball...
To incorporate youth into a community that many people dont get to see. We will allow youth (maybe professional adults) to perform sourounding tobacco. Categories will be chosen for the youth to perform under. youth are encouraged to be themselves and express themselves as such.
Specifics still to come.
Have any more input or have any suggestions, quesitons, or still confused? LEAVE A COMMENT.
THANKS ALL
E
Phone Conferance (April 25th, 2007)
This post will be for people to post any ideas, questions, comments that people had sourrounding the phone conferance.
People In the Phone Conferance
Chico
Susan
April
Gustavo
R.E.
Sheryll
(sorry if I missed anyone or spelt the names wrong)
Anything else?
E
People In the Phone Conferance
Chico
Susan
April
Gustavo
R.E.
Sheryll
(sorry if I missed anyone or spelt the names wrong)
Anything else?
E
Confernece GOALS & Ideas For The Youth Track
What types of presentations have you done at tobacco conferences or at LGBTIQ conferences?
If you have not been a presenter what ones would you like to see??
Here is the draft of the current conference GOALS:
We all agreed on: Expanding Our Movement through Sharing Lessons
We should expand the goal description and include in our call for abstracts. What do we mean by it?
Youth – encourage to learn from youth experts and expand lessons learned to the next generation
Expand to work better with mainstream tobacco control
Expand to work with diversity in a way that is deep and sincere (assure diversity across deep and sincere commitments to race, ethnicity, social economic status, urban culture, rural people, new/beginner advocates and advanced advocates so they can all come together to learn and expand movement)
Thinking about people who are new to the field and old hats to the field
Include special needs of L G B T I Q
This will keep us away from some of the more standard presentations people are submitting to other conferences.
If you have not been a presenter what ones would you like to see??
Here is the draft of the current conference GOALS:
We all agreed on: Expanding Our Movement through Sharing Lessons
We should expand the goal description and include in our call for abstracts. What do we mean by it?
Youth – encourage to learn from youth experts and expand lessons learned to the next generation
Expand to work better with mainstream tobacco control
Expand to work with diversity in a way that is deep and sincere (assure diversity across deep and sincere commitments to race, ethnicity, social economic status, urban culture, rural people, new/beginner advocates and advanced advocates so they can all come together to learn and expand movement)
Thinking about people who are new to the field and old hats to the field
Include special needs of L G B T I Q
This will keep us away from some of the more standard presentations people are submitting to other conferences.
Youth School Based Cessation Programs
Hey do any of you work with school based cessation groups or have you been through one? If my abstract gets selected I would like a youth to co-present with me at NCTOH, Thanks! susan
Update
Hey Everyone :D
It has been a wonderful last couple of weeks. I have gotten a few updates from the teens of Kauai. Where they had just begun an GLBT Group at a local high school. I will be going there either Monday or Friday afternoon to sit in and see what is going on :D. I'm so excited! What about yourselves?
Mahalo,
Sheryll :P
It has been a wonderful last couple of weeks. I have gotten a few updates from the teens of Kauai. Where they had just begun an GLBT Group at a local high school. I will be going there either Monday or Friday afternoon to sit in and see what is going on :D. I'm so excited! What about yourselves?
Mahalo,
Sheryll :P
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Hey
Hey Everyone!
So as far as I can see no one has posted anyone but me. Please email me to my yahoo address and let me know what I should do to fix this in a way so it makes it easy and fun to do. Just even a quick hello to this spot would be great!
Thank you!
Sheryll
So as far as I can see no one has posted anyone but me. Please email me to my yahoo address and let me know what I should do to fix this in a way so it makes it easy and fun to do. Just even a quick hello to this spot would be great!
Thank you!
Sheryll
Monday, April 9, 2007
To Everyone
Hi,
I hope I did this correctly! And this will work out for the best. Here it is, a way for all of us to tell each other our news when we are unable to be in a conference call... much less have one. I hope this works! And it was awesome to talk to you all on Monday's conference call!
Mahalo nui loa,
Sheryll
I hope I did this correctly! And this will work out for the best. Here it is, a way for all of us to tell each other our news when we are unable to be in a conference call... much less have one. I hope this works! And it was awesome to talk to you all on Monday's conference call!
Mahalo nui loa,
Sheryll
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