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
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