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This page is an archive of the Healing & Resilience Program’s past projects, workshops, and grant rounds. The Healing & Resilience program, focuses on equipping the Campaign for Southern Equality community – including staff, partners, and advocates – with the necessary tools to care for ourselves and one another, while doing the work to secure justice and equality for LGBTQ+ Southerners.
Southern Healers – Special Grant Round 2023
For the second year we hosted a special grant round of our Southern Equality Fund dedicated to the many innovative healing efforts led by LGBTQI Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Southerners. This $10,000 Southern Healers Special Grant Round distributed grants of up to $500 to organizing efforts led by BIPOC LGBTQI Southerners.
Southern Healers – Special Grant Round 2021
Our team at the Campaign for Southern Equality was inspired to see innovative healing efforts led by LGBTQI Indigenous, Black, and Brown Southerners – that’s why we hosted a special grant round of our Southern Equality Fund. This $10,000 Southern Healers Special Grant Round distributed grants of up to $500 to organizing efforts led by Indigenous, Black, and Brown LGBTQI Southerners.
National Wellness Space Supporting Trans Youth and Their Families
As a follow-up to our Emergency Town Hall, the Trans Youth Emergency Project (TYEP) hosted a wellness session to support trans youth and their families through this relentless time. We took action by continuing to connect families and community members to patient navigators and care experts, and we took care by tending to their mental health and emotional wellbeing. In this Wellness Session we shared self and community care techniques, resources, and spent some good time connecting with one another.
North Carolina Trans Wellness Workshop
The Campaign for Southern Equality and Equality NC teamed up for a North Carolina Trans Wellness Workshop. This was an intergenerational space for trans and nonbinary adults, youth and their caregivers in Oklahoma, hosted by Campaign for Southern Equality’s Director of Healing & Resilience, Holiday Simmons. We shard conversation, reflections, and a few wellness techniques together.
North Carolina Trans Wellness Workshop
The Campaign for Southern Equality and Equality NC are teamed up for a second North Carolina Trans Wellness Workshop on Tuesday, September 12th from 6-7 PM EST. This was an intergenerational space for trans and nonbinary adults, youth and their caregivers in North Carolina. We shared conversation, reflections, and a few wellness techniques together.
Oklahoma Trans Wellness Workshop
The Campaign for Southern Equality and Freedom Oklahoma are teamed up for an Oklahoma Trans Wellness Workshop. This was an intergenerational space for trans and nonbinary adults, youth and their caregivers in Oklahoma, hosted by Campaign for Southern Equality’s Director of Healing & Resilience, Holiday Simmons. We shard conversation, reflections, and a few wellness techniques together.
Tennessee Trans Wellness Workshop
The Campaign for Southern Equality, OutMemphis, and inclusion tennessee teamed up for a Trans Wellness Workshop to help transgender youth and adults navigate feelings surrounding the passage of a gender-affirming care ban for youth. We shard conversation, reflections, and a few wellness techniques together.
Mississippi Trans Wellness Workshop
The Campaign for Southern Equality and The Trans Program teamed up for a Trans Wellness Workshop to help transgender youth and adults navigate feelings surrounding the passage of a gender-affirming care ban for youth. We shard conversation, reflections, and a few wellness techniques together.
Meeting the Moment Wellness Workshops
In the Fall of 2022, the Campaign for Southern Equality launched “Meeting the Moment Wellness Workshops,” a series of conversations geared toward shared community and collective resilience. These Healing & Resilience Community Workshops will be hosted by Campaign for Southern Equality’s Director of Healing & Resilience Holiday Simmons, joined by special guests.
Southern LGBTQI Practitioners Circle
We deployed our Healing & Resilience work to provide wellness-focused aftercare spaces for advocates following public testimony on anti-LGBTQ bills, hosted virtual and online trainings, launched the Southern LGBTQI Practitioners Circle, and supported young leaders on the development of resilience-building strategies.
