GLOE Youth & Family
Celebrating LGBTQ Parents, Kids,
Teens, Couples and Families of all Kinds
•Our EVENTS for LGBTQ Youth and Families
•Letter from the Directors
•Resources
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GLOE Youth & Family Events
Sun, April 29 - LGBT Life Planning Series: Financial Planning
Sun, June 10 - Visit the GLOE booth at the Capital Pride Festival
Tue, June 19- Night OUT at the Nationals
Sun, July 29 - LGBT Life Planning Series: Family Building
Sun, September 23 - GLOE Youth & Family: Tashlich Gathering at Rock Creek Park
(GLOE's full calendar of programs and events)
GLOE Youth & Family presents our LGBT Life Planning Series
LGBT Financial Planning
for individuals, families, and everyone else
Sunday, April 29, 2012
2:00-4:00 pm
Washington DCJCC - Library (1st floor)
Cost: FREE - RSVP Requested
($5 Suggested Donation to support LGBT Jewish programming)
(MORE INFO)
Join GLOE Youth & Family for the second event in our LGBT Life Planning Series, focusing on Financial Planning!
In this interactive session, our financial and estate planning experts will take you on a whirlwind tour of the unique planning needs of the LGBT community and give you a head start in thinking about how you can, with just a bit of forethought, have your ducks in a row for yourself and/or your partner.
With information specific to the DC-MD-VA area, we will first discuss budgeting, investing, and saving for retirement; then move on to estate planning, including wills/trusts, partnership agreements and charitable giving; and finally, look to some burning tax questions you may have. Panelists will also give an update on how recognition of same-sex marriage could be a game changer and how to find informed advisers to provide individual guidance.
Bring your questions—following the panel, you'll get to speak with our experts individually! Find out more!
Light refreshments served
Presented in Partnership with the J's Early Childhood, Youth & Family Programs
SAVE THE DATE!
GLOE Youth & Family presents our LGBT Life Planning Series
LGBT Family Building
adoption, insemination and beyond
Sunday, July 29, 2012
2:00-4:00 pm
Washington DCJCC - Library (1st floor)
Cost: FREE - RSVP Opening Soon!
($5 Suggested Donation to support LGBT Jewish programming)
Join GLOE Youth & Family for the third event in our LGBT Life Planning Series, focusing on Family Building!
In this interactive session, our family building experts will discuss the unique planning needs of the LGBT community interested in have (or having more) children. We'll go over the variety of options available to LGBT families, with information specific to the DC-MD-VA area.
Panelists will help us explore possibilities with fostering; surrogacy and insemination; adoption; fertility issues, as well as adoption and legal topics. We'll also discuss support for LGBT people interested in parenting.
(Registration opening soon!)
Letter from the Directors:
Early Childhood, Youth & Family Programs
and
GLOE - GLBT Outreach & Engagement
Dear Families,
Welcome! First, we want to start off with a definition of "families." Or rather, a lack of one. We believe families come in so many beautiful forms that if we tried to define who we mean, we'd be leaving out too many of ourselves and other people we want around. At GLOE Youth & Family Programs, we think families are made up of people who care about each other - they are younger or older, have kids or don't, are married or not, and many other combinations.
If you want to be part of our programs that are geared towards LGBT youths and families, you are welcome.
At the Washington DCJCC, LGBT people are part of the life of the Center, in all areas and departments, just as it should be in all Jewish life. We also know that LGBT people also have experiences unique to our community. That's why at the J, we want to host programs and events specifically geared towards LGBT youths and families, and provide opportunities to create community. As directors, we saw that in our two separate departments, there was a great opportunity to work together where we overlap, which brought about GLOE Youth & Family!
And we are so excited to do just that - work together and build community.
We hope you'll join us many future events!
Sincerely,
Sarah Rabin Spira
Director, Early Childhood, Youth & Family Programs
sarahr@washingtondcjcc.org or (202) 777-3278
Halley Cohen
Director, GLOE - GLBT Outreach & Engagement
halleyc@washingtondcjcc.org or (202) 777-3253
Resources
•GLOE Youth & Family Announcements
Click here to sign up for the GLOE e-newsletter!
•LGBT Family Books
Lists of LGBT teen books, children's books with LGBT families, children's books celebrating diverse families, books in other languages, and Jewish LGBT books. (Click here)
•For LGBTQ Teens and their Teen Allies
FAIRFAX OPEN HOUSE: Monthly Meeting (2nd Monday each month)
Fairfax Open House is a monthly support group for LGBT Jewish teens that meets the second Monday a month at the JCC in Northern Virginia. For more information friend us on Facebook, Twitter or check us out on the web at www.fairfaxopenhouse.org
ROCKVILLE OPEN HOUSE: Monthly Meeting (1st Thursday each month)
Rockville Open House (ROH) is a supervised, safe gathering space for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer, questioning,or intersex (LGBTQQI) Jewish teens, and their friends and allies, between the ages of 13-18 yrs old. ROH is open once a month, from 7:00pm-9:45pm at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington Youth Lounge - 6125 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD. For more information, please visit us at rockvilleopenhouse.org or facebook.org/rockvilleopenhouse.
•Other Events and Resources in the Community
GLOE's Community Listings (Click here)