The South Asian Lesbian & Gay Association of New York City (SALGA) serves to promote awareness, tolerance, acceptance, empowerment and safe spaces for sexual minorities and people of all gender identities, who trace their heritage to South Asia or who identify as South Asian. Our mission is to enable community members to establish cultural visibility and take a stand against oppression and discrimination in all its forms.  We pledge to encourage leadership development, provide multi-generational support, work towards immigration advocacy, address health issues such as HIV / AIDS, and foster political involvement in the interest of creating a more tolerant society.

SALGA Facilitator Training

Posted: March 26th, 2010 | Author: lkalasapudi | Filed under: Blog, Events, News |

SUPPORT GROUP is a 20 year institution here at SALGA, and we’re pretty proud of it. And now we have the peer-counselor HOTLINE, the first of its kind for South Asian LGBTQ people!

Support group is often the place where the vast diversity of our community — Muslim, Sikh, Bangaldeshi, Nepalese, bisexual, gender-non-conforming and much more — encounter SALGA for the first time, and facilitators are crucial to making the group (and hotline!) a welcoming space.

We couldn’t do it all without your help - without the wonderful and committed volunteers who facilitate our monthly support groups and who answer the hotline phones.

We invite you to count yourself among those wonderfully dedicated folks.  That’s why we will be holding our next

SALGA Facilitator Training

Date: Saturday, April 3rd

Time: 11 AM - 5 PM

Place: LGBT Center
208 W 13th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues)
New York, NY 10011

An RSVP is required to hold your spot: Please email Aneesa and Deen (aneesa@salganyc.org; deen@salganyc.org).  Lunch will be provided.

Active participation in the entire training is required in order to become a co-facilitator of a SALGA Support Group. We also invite current facilitators to take the training if they would like a refresher.

(Please note, for those interested in working on the hotline, there are two parts to the training - one conducted by us (on April 3rd) and one conducted by our partner, APICHA, at a date TBD.)

Thanks and we look forward to seeing you!

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