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Chinese-American Planning Council, Inc. (CPC)Support CPC Project Reach for Give Out Day!
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CPC Project Reach is a youth and adult run, multiracial, multi-gender, anti-discrimination, youth organizing center with a commitment to challenging the identity destruction among New York City's disparate youth communities. By empowering youth and marginalized communities, namely LGBTQ+ People of color we aim to combat stigma in schools, home and agencies across New York City.
By bringing together young people who would otherwise never meet, we break isolation, develop an anti-discrimination curriculum developed by young people and communities of color to empower other young people and communities of color. Our curriculum challenges participants to rediscover discrimination and rediscover the roots of discrimination.
Give Out Day is the only national day of giving for the LGBTQ community. Support Project Reach and their incredible work for Give Out Day!
Project Reach's efforts to empower and support community members have not wavered since the start of the program in 1971.
Their achievements and impacts have always aligned with their goal to combat stigma that is perpetuated in schools, homes, and agencies across NYC while providing a safe space for youth to speak their truths.
1971
CPC PROJECT REACH OPENS
· Worked with immigrant youth and victims of Chinese gangs through the Eldridge Street storefront.
1990
PRO-RADS OPENS: FIRST LGBT YOUTH CENTER ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE
· Pro-RADS, (Project Reach Anti-Discrimination Space) is established. It is the first safe space for Lesbian and Gay youth on the Lower East Side.
1991 - 1992
FIRST - EVER LESBIAN / GAY YOUTH RETREATS
· Pro-RADS establishes first-ever city-wide, youth-run, Lesbian/Gay Youth Retreats at The Farm in The Catskill Mountains (with partners GLYNY, Gay Lesbian Youth of NY; YES, Youth Enrichment Services/The Center; HMI, Hetrick-Martin Institute; and The Door).
1995
POSITIVE YOUTH
· The start of a program that employed 12 HIV+/Young People Living w/AIDS; most of whom are LGBT/homeless/runaway youth.
2004
SOCIAL JUSTICE BOOT CAMP
· A national (anti-militaristic) social justice training at The Farm that brought together 60 youth from 14 schools, community and LGBT programs from NYC and Texas committed to building solidarity and challenging racism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination dividing their communities.
2008
PROJECT REACH SUPPORTS RUSSIAN LGBT FILM FESTIVAL
Project Reach partners with Astraea Lesbian Foundation to raise and send critical funding to support Side by Side, Russia’s first-ever LGBT International Film Festival in St. Petersburg.
2009
OUTRIGHT CONSORTIUM IS ESTABLISHED
(LGBTQ partners included: Pride Center of Staten Island; Generation Q, Brooklyn Community Pride Center, Bronx Community Pride Center, Make The Road NY/PRYDE/GLOBE)
· A collaboration of over 35 schools, community organizations and LGBTQ centers in New York and Rhode Island committed to address homophobia, transphobia sexism and misogyny in their communities.
2011
CITYWIDE TRAVELING LGBT YOUTH DINNERS
· Alongside our OUTRIGHT Consortium, LGBT Youth decide to host dinners at their respective centers in all 5 boroughs tackling issues such as Ageism/Adultism, Gender Identity and Transphobia.
2014
HOSTS FIRST-EVER CITY-WIDE TRANSGENDER NONCONFORMING YOUTH RETREAT
(Representing: The Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Generation Q, Pride Center of Staten Island, The Door and Project Reach)
· 8 Trans/Gender Nonconforming Youth from New York organize the first-ever Trans Youth-run Retreat in the Catskills.
2015
RUSSIAN-SPEAKING LGBT ASYLUM-SEEKERS SUPPORT GROUP
Project Reach is home to a weekly Russian-speaking LGBT asylum-seekers support group which is peer-led and provides a safe space and services for newly arrived and undocumented LGBT immigrants