New Mexico Gay-Straight Alliance Network

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About Us

The NM Gay Straight Alliance Network is a youth-led organization that connects school-based Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs) to each other and community resources. Through peer support, leadership development, and training, GSA Network supports young people in starting, strengthening, and sustaining GSAs and builds the capacity of GSAs to:

1. create safe environments in schools for students to support each other and learn about homophobia and other oppressions,
2. educate the school community about homophobia, gender identity, and sexual orientation issues, and
3. fight discrimination, harassment, and violence in schools.

Climbing Up, Climbing Out

Climbing Up, Climbing Out (CUCO) is a signature program serving the needs of GLBTQQ youth and their straight allies since 2000. CUCO provides youth a safe place to express themselves, nurture positive identity development, build resilience against homophobia and oppression, be mentored by GLBTQQ adults, serve their community and organize politically. Current CUCO projects include All Colors Youth Summit: a statewide queer-youth-organized conference for queer youth and straight allies; the School GSA Conference: a capacity building one-day conference for GSA Chapters; the Anti-bullying Initiative: Creating a Caring Community: mobilization and training students of the Gay Straight Alliance Club, student body, teachers and staff at Santa Fe High School to create a caring majority where bullying is not tolerated. Our newest project, the New Mexico Gay Straight Alliance Network is a timely expansion of our GSA capacity-building to reach youth statewide.

Santa Fe Mountain Center

The Santa Fe Mountain Center (SFMC) is a nationally recognized, accredited, private, 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization that, since 1979, has been providing experiential and adventure-based programs for children, youth, families and groups. Our methodology represents an alternative to traditional educational and therapeutic approaches conducted in comfortable institutional settings. We create dynamic learning experiences that include elements of adventure, education and challenge. Program designs range from daylong teambuilding exercises to multi-day experiences. Adventure-based programming—cooperative games, problem solving "group initiative" challenges, ropes course, community work, backpacking, rock climbing, rappelling, whitewater rafting—has proven to be a powerful vehicle for developing a sense of self worth, responsibility, compassion, and connection to community. SFMC programs reach out to agencies and clients throughout New Mexico.

We are dedicated to promoting personal discovery and social change with youth, families, and groups through the use of creative learning experiences in wilderness, community, and cultural environments.