Our 2011 World AIDS Day conference was a big success!! It's called HeartB.E.A.T.S. (Bringing Education about AIDS To Schools), and this was the 11th annual conference Pride for Youth co-sponsored, along with our partners Planned Parenthood of Nassau County and the Prevention Committee of the Nassau County HIV Commission.
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 starting their day at Breakfast
HeartBEATS Health Fair at Hofstra's Student Activities Center
Using games to teach the facts about HIV/AIDS at Leadership Training Institute's 'Facts R Us' workshop
'Here I Stand' activity at PFY's workshop
PFY Program Leaders
Street Outreach Project workshop
Street Outreach Project Peer Educators and Staff
Planned Parenthood of Nassau County's Teen Advocate Project
Students gathered together at the auditorium for afternoon speakers
Speakers from Love Heals
Every student took home an oversized red ribbon, which they got to decorate at lunch and put up on their locker.