Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Pictures from 2011 HeartBEATS!!

Our 2011 World AIDS Day conference was a big success!! It's called HeartB.E.A.T.S. (Bringing Education about AIDS To Schools), and this was the 11th annual conference Pride for Youth co-sponsored, along with our partners Planned Parenthood of Nassau County and the Prevention Committee of the Nassau County HIV Commission.

About 200 students attended from eight different school districts throughout Nassau County. Pride for Youth Program Leaders conducted two workshops on homophobia, transphobia and HIV/AIDS. Long Island Crisis Center's Street Outreach Project also provided two workshops dealing with runaway and homeless youth.

But the pictures below tell the story better than any words can express. Thanks so much to the conference's fiscal sponsors: Hofstra University School of Education, Health and Social Service, NuHealth Foundation, the Stanley and Marion Bergman Family Charitable Fund and National Grid.


PFY Program Leaders at Breakfast


7th and 8th graders start their day with breakfast at Hofsta's Student Activities Center


Health Fair for the Hofstra community



Games are used to teach HIV/AIDS facts at Leadership Training Institute's 'Facts R Us' workshop


'Here I Stand' activity at PFY's workshop about LGBTs and AIDS-phobia


Program Leaders answer questions from middle school students


Street Outreach Project workshop


Street Outreach Project staff and peer educators


Planned Parenthood of Nassau County's Teen Advocate Project


Every student received an oversized red ribbon to decorate during lunch and take back to their school for display.


Students gather in the auditorium for the afternoon speakers


HeartBEATS 2011 Co-Chair and LICC Associate Executive Director Andy Peters


Speakers from Love Heals tell their personal stories and answer questions