Saving Lives Now Project (SLNP)

APT created the Saving Lives Now Project (SLNP):
  • Mission of the SLNP: to make our schools and communities more gender and LGBTQIA+ inclusive, with an intersectional approach; to help be a part of lowering suicide, the mental health crisis and quality of life statistics amongst the LGBTQIA+ community.
  • SLNP Goal: For each school district/community to carry out all or some of the below projects. Along with each school/district and or community to have a point person to carry out the SLNP who can get help from APT.
  • 5 projects under the SLNP:
  • 1). Gender/LGBTQIA+ inclusive/anti- bias professional development trainings for schools/communities: via Welcoming Schools and or through other like trainings. 
    • Schools can have that foundation on how to teach LGBTQIA+ students and how to foster allies.
  • 2).  APT Student Clubs: (similar to GSA's, though also different) in elementary schools and beyond. 
  • 3).  All gender restroom signage for all single stall restrooms in schools and communities.
    •  61% of transgender and nonbinary youth reported being prevented or discouraged from using a bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity.
    • APT has secured an official sign vendor partner: Sign Optima. 
    • Sign Optima agreed to give a 10% discount to all customers APT refers to them with an "Amor Para Todos" code. Discount code will be found on APT website.
    • Sign Optima also agreed to give back to APT, 10% of all proceeds from our referral customer's orders, to support the LGBTQIA+ community.
    • There is legislature from 2016 (AB 1732) that states that all single stall restrooms in CA, by law, have to have all gender signage. 
    • The bill came into effect in 2017. Though, a great majority of single stall restrooms do not have signage and are not in compliance.
    • APT wants all schools & businesses in town and beyond to use our code and official vendor to be in compliance, with all gender restroom signage.
      • APT is working towards making the all gender restroom signs more intersectional and less traditional.
  • 4).  School district adoption of a gender inclusive Family Life/Sex Ed curriculum in compliance with the California Healthy Youth Act (CHYA). 
    • There is legislation to have Family Life/Sex Ed to be gender inclusive the majority of schools are not in compliance with this. 
    • APT is working with school districts  to adopt a gender inclusive Family/Life Sex Ed curriculum that is in compliance with CHYA.
  •  5). School district adoption of a general TK-6th grade gender/LGBTQIA+ inclusive curriculum.
    •  CA Ed code and CA laws such as the FAIR Act state that CA schools should be teaching about gender and the LGBTQIA+ population in schools, which is a general curriculum not Sex Ed.
    •  There is a distinct difference between the two, which sometimes guardians do not know about and or try to opt their kiddos out of, when by law they cannot. 
      • “SB 71 makes it absolutely clear that instruction or materials that discuss human reproductive organs and their functions are "sexual health education." Anti-bias trainings covering gender, sexual orientation or family life are not sexual health  education. Therefore, parents do not need to be notified of this instruction and they may not remove their children from it.”
    • APT also has been in touch with the SFUSD who already have implemented a general gender/LGBTQIA+ curriculum in their elementary schools and we plan to advocate this with other local school districts too.
  • To be a point person email: amorparatodosapt@gmail.com
  • apt.allgenderrestrooms@gmail.com


Welcoming Schools Professional Development

“While 83 percent of educators felt that they should provide a safe environment for their LGBTQ students...only half had taken action to do so...And a lack of professional development on how to address LGBTQ issues and bullying has left teachers ill-equipped to establish LGBTQ-inclusive cultures or to identify anti-LGBTQ behaviors and harassment.”
- A study from the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, Edutopia.org
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Welcoming Schools is under the Human Rights Campaign. Training school staff, teachers and community members through the Welcoming Schools professional development program will provide them with the resources required to help all students and community members thrive, especially those LGBTQIA+ students. These trainings will address bias-based bullying and ensure that all families feel welcomed. Schools using the Welcoming Schools approach experience a 50% reduction in bullying behavior within the first two years of full Welcoming Schools implementation. There are 7 Welcoming School's professional development training modules. The 7 modules are most effectively taught over the course of 3 years. 3 modules the first and second school year and 1 the third school year.
Here’s a short video about the Welcoming Schools professional development program and here you can find brief descriptions of the Welcoming Schools  professional development modules.

APT Student Clubs in Elementary Schools and Beyond

APT Student Group Statistical Benefits 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iLxgdY3QYGLlVbyeJBAzSgIi0z3MsHDSekWGmzw0XKs/edit 
Frequently Asked Questions and how they pertain to an APT Student Group
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f9StQ1wjZGsrbZP4GrQMqtXdtJHB-QYwZ2QIlIhkvkQ/edit
Laws that Protect APT Advisors and APT Student Groups:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k-4VOx-Yd7Xf_IalhfOjZOktIarfFqynNygpZ1Cq48I/edit

Gender Inclusive Sex Ed and Family Life Curriculum


All Gender Single Stall Restroom Signage