{"id":26355,"date":"2017-01-19T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T03:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=26355"},"modified":"2017-01-19T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T03:14:10","slug":"bradbury-sullivan-lgbt-community-center-%e2%80%8bleaders-presenting-two-workshops-national-lgbt-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=26355","title":{"rendered":"Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center\u00a0 \u200bLeaders Presenting Two Workshops at National LGBT Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><b>Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><b>\u200bLeaders Presenting Two Workshops at National LGBT Conference, Creating Change<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><b>\u200b<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">ALLENTOWN, PA &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u200bLeaders from \u200b<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\u200b team are in Philadelphia this week for Creating Change, the largest national LGBT movement-building conference in the United States. The Conference is organized by the National LGBTQ Task Force and is attended by more than 4,600 LGBT activists, organizers, and community leaders and is in its 29th year.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u200bOn <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1995598446\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday January 20th<\/span><\/span>, Executive Director Adrian Shanker and Training Institute Director Liz Bradbury will each be teaching a workshop. Shanker will lead a workshop teaching LGBT community-based leaders to create community action plans to reduce and\u00a0eliminate LGBT health disparities in their communities. Bradbury will lead a workshop\u00a0teaching LGBT organizations best practices for engaging and training their local police departments on LGBT issues.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default m_3228155071051529342gmail-m_-5898842633702071475gmail-m_-5904139923983439521m_-3832331193241715417m_-3960865086975114667gmail-m_2543218764992035095gmail_msg m_3228155071051529342gmail-m_-5898842633702071475gmail-m_-5904139923983439521m_-3832331193241715417gmail_msg\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\u200bShanker noted, &#8220;Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center is proud to be a thought leader in LGBT health equity and in LGBT-Police community relations. This exceptional conference is a great opportunity to highlight the work we do in the Lehigh Valley at a national level and also work with our peers at similar institutions to share the best practices we&#8217;ve learned. We also look forward to learning from our peers about areas they have excelled in!&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default m_3228155071051529342gmail-m_-5898842633702071475gmail-m_-5904139923983439521m_-3832331193241715417m_-3960865086975114667gmail-m_2543218764992035095gmail_msg m_3228155071051529342gmail-m_-5898842633702071475gmail-m_-5904139923983439521m_-3832331193241715417gmail_msg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\u200bCreating Change is a five-day conference\u200b running January 18-<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1995598447\"><span class=\"aQJ\">22, 2017<\/span><\/span> in Philadelphia.<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">About Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradburysullivancenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.bradburysullivancenter.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1484962864006000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGb4VICMXOoS3dN7EU9NMu8CqBA6A\"><u><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">www.bradburysullivancenter.or<\/span><\/u>g<\/a><span style=\"color: #222222;\">) provides arts &amp; culture, health promotion, and youth programs as well as supportive services to strengthen and support the LGBT community across the Greater Lehigh Valley.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information Provided By:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adrian Shanker,\u00a0<\/span>Executive Director<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LGBT-Lehigh-Valley-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}