{"id":897,"date":"2012-08-05T10:24:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T14:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glso.org\/enews\/?p=897"},"modified":"2012-08-05T13:57:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T17:57:54","slug":"pflag-lexington-offers-free-program-for-parents-family-and-friends-of-the-lgbt-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glso.org\/enews\/2012\/08\/pflag-lexington-offers-free-program-for-parents-family-and-friends-of-the-lgbt-community\/","title":{"rendered":"PFLAG Lexington Offers FREE Program for Parents, Family and Friends of the LGBT Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PFLAG Lexington officially kicks off its Stay Strong Program (SSP) Thursday September 13, 2012. The SSP workshop was specifically created for family members and friends of an LGBT person. Its primary design is to provide a safe space and confidential time to ask questions and get real answers from experienced and knowledgeable PFLAG parents and friends.<br \/>\nThe 4 week workshop will focus on:<br \/>\n\u2022 Navigating the PFLAG experience: learning terminology and creating a comfortable environment<br \/>\n\u2022 Acceptance of Self: learning through personal stories from a panel of fellow parents, family members and friends<br \/>\n\u2022 Relationship building: Learning through panel of counselors some ways to repair and strengthen relationships<br \/>\n\u2022 Advocating for support and acceptance: Learning through mock situations how to support, educate and advocate for your loved one as well as yourself<br \/>\nParticipants will walk away with a personalized support, educational and advocacy toolkit. Sessions are evenings from 6:30-8:30 pm. A light meal and drinks will be provided.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"internal-source-marker_0.879336847923696\">Dates for the fall and winter four-week sessions are:<br \/>\nFall 2012<br \/>\n\u2022Thursdays: Sept 13, 20, 27, Oct. 4<br \/>\n\u2022Tuesdays: Oct 16, 23,30, Nov. 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Winter 2013<br \/>\n\u2022Thursdays: Jan 10, 17, 24, 31<br \/>\n\u2022Tuesdays: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26<\/p>\n<p>Note: These sessions are FREE but space is limited.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"internal-source-marker_0.879336847923696\">To register, contact Sandy Linville at <a href=\"mailto:info@pflaglex.org\" target=\"_blank\">info@pflaglex.org<\/a> or 859.338.4393.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pflaglex.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.pflaglex.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFLAG Lexington officially kicks off its Stay Strong Program (SSP) Thursday September 13, 2012. The SSP workshop was specifically created for family members and friends of an LGBT person. Its primary design is to provide a safe space and confidential&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glso.org\/enews\/2012\/08\/pflag-lexington-offers-free-program-for-parents-family-and-friends-of-the-lgbt-community\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[197,199,200,111,112,195,339,193,198,194,196,191,192,125,53],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-acceptance","tag-advocating","tag-educate","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-parents","tag-pflag","tag-program","tag-relationships","tag-safe","tag-self","tag-stay","tag-strong","tag-support","tag-workshops"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glso.org\/enews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glso.org\/enews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glso.org\/enews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glso.org\/enews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glso.org\/enews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.glso.org\/enews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/www.glso.org\/enews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glso.org\/enews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glso.org\/enews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glso.org\/enews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}