UNC Charlotte's Counseling Center completed Part I: LGBTQ 101 training on Thursday, July 24, 2008. All the counselors and support staff came out for the training. Many of the counselors will return for Part II-IV: Ally Development. This was the first departmental training the program offered and it was extremely successful.

Please note that the only required departmental training is Part I: LGBTQ 101 and no individuals were required to attend Part II-IV: Ally Development and no individuals were required to become Allies in the program.

The Safe Zone Ally Program welcomes 20 new Allies to the program.

With the trainings held on July 18th-July 25th we successfully trained 20 new Allies. We would like to thank all the participants in taking time to become trained. We would also like to thank our co-trainers, Jeremiah Nelson, Liz Fitzgerald, and Terri Rhodes for their assistance.

The new Safe Zone Program has completed its first training on June 16th and 19th of this year. The program welcomed 13 new Allies into our program. Their information can be found under our "Students" tab. Thank you to Tony Keith for assisting in facilitating the trainings and thank you to all our new allies.

The Safe Zone Program has recently trained six new Trainers on Tuesday, May 27, 2008. This means the program is fully up and running and trainings for all other faculty/staff will being in mid-June of this summer. Thank you to Terri Rhodes, Marissa Tappy, Tony Keith, Vidal Dickerson, Liz Fitzgerald, and Michael Denton.

Welcome to the new Safe Zone Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte! The Safe Zone Program has had many different manifestations in the past here at UNC-Charlotte, but is now housed in the Multicultural Resource Center under the Assistant Director for Sexual/Gender Diversity.