School counsellors' responses to homosexuality and to lesbian and gay students

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-42
Author(s):  
Adriana Fallone ◽  
Daphne Hewson
Keyword(s):  
Support Services ◽  
Inservice Training ◽  
Curriculum Material ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Supportive Services ◽  
Poor Knowledge ◽  
Gay Students ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
School Counsellors ◽  
High Range

NSW School Counsellors were surveyed regarding their attitudes towards homosexuality and their experience and willingness to work with gay and lesbian students. Most counsellors showed low to moderate homonegativism, but 16.6% scored in the high range. Less knowledge, experience, and past training on homosexuality issues were significantly related to homonegativism, as was unwillingness to participate in future activities and workshops dealing with lesbian and gay students' issues. Many counsellors had a poor knowledge of existing support services. Counsellors who were willing to provide supportive services for gay and lesbian students expressed a need for resources, information kits and curriculum material, inservice training, executive support and a positive Departmental policy.

scholarly journals Are You Gay, Sir? A Review of the Literature Concerning the Experiences of Gay Male Educators

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane Town
Keyword(s):  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
School Environments ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Gay Students ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
Gay And Lesbian Youth ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Gay Teachers ◽  
Lesbian Teachers

This article reviews the literature available from overseas and in Aotearoa that investigates the experiences of gay and lesbian teachers in secondary schools. In doing so it explores the role that homophobia and heterosexism play in creating school environments that are often hostile to lesbian and gay teachers and students. These “forces” operate to maintain the segregation between gay and lesbian youth and gay and lesbian teachers creating a climate of fear based on myths of paedophilia, recruitment and deviancy. The damaging effects of this institutionalised homophobia on the daily lives of gay male teachers is examined. Using overseas experience as a guide, suggestions as to how to create safe schools for lesbian and gay students and teachers are explored.

Housing Matters, Services Might: Findings from the High Needs Families Program Evaluation

2021 ◽  
Vol 693 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-229
Author(s):  
Debra J. Rog ◽  
Kathryn A. Henderson ◽  
Clara A. Wagner ◽  
Emily L. Abbruzzi
Keyword(s):  
Support Services ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Subsidized Housing ◽  
Supportive Housing ◽  
Intensive Case Management ◽  
Access To Services ◽  
Supportive Services ◽  
Housing Stability ◽  
The Past ◽  
Permanent Supportive Housing

Permanent supportive housing for families experiencing homelessness—typically, subsidized housing that is not time limited and provides access to a range of support services—has substantially increased over the past 10 years, despite an absence of rigorous evidence of its effectiveness. We examine the benefits of subsidized housing with supportive services compared to subsidized housing alone. Our findings suggest that supportive housing offers more opportunities for access to services and benefits than subsidized housing alone, but it may not be beneficial to families’ housing stability or to family members’ employment or involvement with the criminal justice system. We argue that housing that is coupled with intensive case management, that is service rich, and that provides and adheres to harm reduction principles may help to strengthen supportive housing’s effectiveness.

Editors' Reviews

1996 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 392-398
Author(s):  
Carolyn Campbell ◽  
Irene Hall
Keyword(s):  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Lesbian And Gay

Two Teenagers in Twenty: Writings by Gay and Lesbian YouthEdited by Ann Heron Boston: Alyson, 1994. 187 pp. 8.95 (paper). Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction for TeensEdited by Tony Grima Boston: Alyson, 1994, 237 pp. 7.95 (paper).

scholarly journals Permissible progress: Sexual(ities that) progress in and beyond English primary schools

2020 ◽  
pp. 239965442090247
Author(s):  
Joseph J Hall
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Group Data ◽  
The Family ◽  
Focus Group Data ◽  
Child Friendly ◽  
Familial Context

This paper examines what is permissible sexual progress in English primary schools by exploring the possibilities – but also the limitations – of the introduction of familial sexualities. In recent years, Stonewall (a prominent and politically mainstream Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans charity) have increasingly utilised ‘the family’ as a ‘child-friendly’ topic to encourage primary educators to broach same-sex relationships by incorporating their ‘inclusive’ range of Different Families resources into lessons. This strategic manoeuvre emerges in a socio-political and spatiotemporal context dominated by neoliberal sexual politics and follows ‘moral panics’ surrounding queer progressive politics inspired initiatives, most notably No Outsiders (2006–2009) which previously unsettled institutionalised discourses of ‘childhood (sexual) innocence’ in pursuing radical, but arguably necessary approaches for disrupting and undoing heteronormativity. In spite of this, Stonewall’s Different Families, Same Love initiative is now the dominant approach for introducing lesbian and gay sexualities in English primary schools; yet, little is known about how primary-aged children respond to this intervention. Focusing on a leading exponent of Stonewall’s initiative, I explore 4–9 year olds dis/engagements with gay and lesbian sexualities when introduced in a familial context. Reflecting on mixed ethnographic and focus group data, I question not only which gay and lesbian sexualities ‘progress’ in contemporary English primary schools, but also how well. To this end, recommendations are made for improving families’ curricula without losing sight of the limits of this approach.

Exceptional students in Queensland catholic schools: Prevalence, priorities and future directions

1988 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark G. Quinn ◽  
William F. Suitmann ◽  
John Elkins
Keyword(s):  
Support Services ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Inservice Training ◽  
Professional Support ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Exceptional Students ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Advanced Learners ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Behavioural Difficulties

A survey of the prevalence and needs of exceptional students was carried out in Queensland Catholic primary(n= 195) and secondary (n = 40) schools. Within the overall population surveyed 3.13% possessed disabilities, 3.83% behavioural difficulties, 4.19% advanced learning characteristics, and 12.80% learning difficulties. The survey indicated that support services fell short of the demand, particularly for students with behavioural difficulties and those considered to be advanced learners. The data obtained was of the same order as that found in other state, national and international studies. The majority of principals and teachers interviewed held positive attitudes towards integration. However, this was qualified by a strong press for additional professional support, inservice training, and resources to enable the necessary enhancement of the educational experiences being offered. The survey identified a continuing need for communication and cooperation with state and private agencies and the desirability of developing a system which marshalls the available resources, both regular and special, into an efficient and feasible service delivery operation.

24th and Mission

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily K. Hobson
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Central American ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
New Right ◽  
Mission District ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Sandinista Revolution ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
Nicaraguan Revolution

Gay and lesbian radicals opposed both the domestic and the foreign policies of the New Right and became allies to Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution. Starting in 1978, activists began to organize uniquely lesbian and gay solidarity with Nicaragua and to use these efforts to address tensions between sexuality, socialism, and racial and ethnic identities. Lesbian and gay solidarity was anti-imperialist, anti-militarist, and sought multiracial community in the San Francisco Mission District. Activists built groups including the Gay Latino Alliance, Gay People for the Nicaraguan Revolution, and Lesbians and Gays Against Intervention. By 1983 lesbian and gay radicals had won a major presence in Central American solidarity and forged networks tied to women of color feminism and the San Francisco Women's Building.

Tapping Deeper Roots: Integrating the Spiritual Dimension into Professional Practice with Lesbian and Gay Clients

1994 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Spiritual Leadership ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
The Way

Endeavors to answer how psychotherapists and counselors can help lesbian and gay clients tap into their own spiritual depths and how therapists and counselors can make their own spiritual life available as a healing resource for clients. Sketches the history of gays and lesbians and notes their contributions in the area of spiritual leadership. Identifies some of the difficult theological and ecclesiological forces which frequently stand in the way of authentic expressions of gay and lesbian growth in spiritual matters, and indicates ways in which the spiritual life of a counselor may represent a key factor in allowing the spirit to grow in the lives of gay and lesbians persons.

A National Examination of Caregiver Use of and Preferences for Support Services: Does Rurality Matter?

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (9) ◽  
pp. 1652-1670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Henning-Smith ◽  
Megan Lahr ◽  
Michelle Casey
Keyword(s):  
Support Services ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Financial Strain ◽  
Supportive Services ◽  
Caregiver Support ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
National Examination ◽  
Ordered Logistic Regression ◽  
Use Of Services

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess rural–urban differences in caregiver use of and preferences for support services. Method: Using the 2015 Caregiving in the U.S. survey data ( n = 1,389), we analyzed rural–urban differences by caregiver residence in use of and preferences for support services. We analyzed bivariate differences in service use and preferences, as well as in sociodemographic and caregiving relationship characteristics. We also assessed the correlates of service use using stratified ordered logistic regression models. Results: Approximately one third of all caregivers had used no supportive services, with few differences in service use and preference by location. For caregivers in both locations, having more financial strain was associated with greater use of services. Discussion: This article identifies broad needs for caregiver support across all geographic locations. Targeted efforts should be made to ensure access to supportive services accounting for unique barriers by geography.

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