Education & Workshops | Pride Resource Center

The Pride Resource Center offers educational training and workshops for departments, classes, student organizations, and other groups. Our workshops focus on increasing participants’ knowledge, awareness, skills and action needed to reduce homophobia and transphobia, with the goal of creating a CSU and local community that is inclusive, safer, and supportive to people of all sexual, romantic, and gender identities and expressions. We offer a variety of types of educational workshops, which you can see below to make the determination for which offering is best for your or your group.

Safe Zone Training

The Pride Resource Center’s Online Safe Zone Training is a 3.5-hour training program for CSU faculty/staff with the objectives of:

reducing homophobia, transphobia and cisheterosexism at CSU, thereby making CSU a safer environment for all members of our community across sexual orientations, romantic orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and intersections of identities,
creating a network committed to ongoing education and advocacy in order to support LGBTQIA+ communities at CSU.

There are two ways to be Safe Zone Trained:

Individuals may sign up for our monthly Open Registration Safe Zones.
Departments may request a Safe Zone training for their specific group at a time that works for their team.

See the links below to register/submit a request.

Please note:

We ask that departments do not mandate or require their staff members to attend our Safe Zone Training, but instead encourage and invite, in order to ensure all participants are invested in the goals of our program.
Our primary audience for this training are faculty and staff at Colorado State University. Students have the opportunity to sign up for Safe Zone - Student Sessions.
Safe Zone Training requires 3.5 hours to fulfill.
Participants who complete the entire training and turn in a Commitment Statement will be given a Safe Zone sticker and be added to our Safe Zone Network directory.

Click here to learn more about our Safe Zone program.

Safe Zone: Student Sessions

CSU students are welcome to sign up for Safe Zone: Student Sessions, which are 2-hour, modified Safe Zones designed for CSU students. These are great training options for student employees on campus. Register via the link below. This training's objectives are

reducing homophobia, transphobia and cisheterosexism at CSU, thereby making CSU a safer environment for all members of our community across sexual orientations, romantic orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and intersections of identities.
to create a network committed to ongoing education and advocacy in order to support LGBTQ communities at CSU.

Students may also request a Safe Zone training for their student organization through the link below.

Introduction to Gender Inclusive Language & Pronouns

Visible Voices Panels

Visible Voices is an educational program that is styled as a speakers bureau (panel) made up of CSU students, staff, faculty, and community members who share about their experiences and coming out stories.

Goals of our Visible Voices program include:

To educate the Colorado State University community and the public about what it means to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex or an ally of LGBTQ+ people and communities;
To dispel myths and stereotypes about LGBTQ+ people;
To build understanding and acceptance through open and honest dialogue.

Click here to learn more about our Visible Voices program.

Pride Workshop Requests

The CSU Pride Resource Center offers multiple training and workshop options for our campus and local community. Please select the option below that best fits the needs of your group - more information can be found above. Our staff will do our best to follow up with you request within 5 business days.

What workshop are you interested in?

Workshop Format

In-Person Workshop

Virtual Workshop (Zoom)

Other

Name

Role

CSU Faculty

CSU Staff

CSU Student

Community Member (Non-CSU)

Audience

Please name your specific department, group, class, college, student organization etc.

How many people do expect to attend?

We require a minimum of 8 participants to run our trainings.

Location

Date - First Preference

Time

Date - Second Preference

Time

Time Duration

Please share any specific topics or areas you would like us to focus on:

Please share more of what you are looking for:

Visible Voices

Time Duration

Please submit any questions you would like our panelists to prepare ahead of time:

For example: What do you want future K-12 educators to know about working with LGBTQ+ students in their classroom?

As a panel requester, we see you as a partner in setting up an environment conducive to learning and supports CSU's Principles of Community. While our panels are self-facilitated, we ask that the requesting party ensure a staff, faculty, or student leader be present to assist with engaging and interrupting any bias that may occur while we are guests in your space. Examples of incidents of bias include, but are not limited to any activity that intimidates, demeans, mocks, degrades, marginalizes, or threatens individuals or groups based on that individual's or group's actual or perceived identities. Our volunteers will work to answer all questions from an educational lens, and can opt to not answer any question they choose. If you have questions about this expectation, please email our Director at Maggie.hendrickson@colostate.edu.(Required)

I agree.

Off-Campus Requests

Please note: For off-campus requests we may assess a fee based on group-size, location, and which workshop you are looking for, and that our availability will be more limited.

I understand the above statement.(Required)

Yes.