The Community Brave Foundation Story
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The Community Brave Foundation Story What is ‘The Community Brave Foundation’? The Community Brave Foundation is a new collaborative community group made up entirely of volunteers who wish to create a sustainable and positive future for the youth of our community, specifically targeting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) youths. It is 100% community run as a non-profit funded by the community through donations & crowdfunding. Who is ‘The Community Brave Foundation’? The Foundation is made up of Board Committee who runs the foundation. These members are community members who have volunteered their time and come from all professions (Social Media, Nursing, Media, Marketing, Community Organisations, Event Managers, Video Production Teams, Teachers, Graphic Designers, Website Developers, Executives) What is our mission? Our mission is to build short and long term sustainable solutions to eradicate online bullying, homophobia, Transphobia & youth suicide. We aim to achieve this in the short term by providing a series of role model videos, building focused training mentors and providing a 24/7 support, assistance and guidance service through Social Media. We also aim to achieve a longer term sustainable outcome by providing education and knowledge through society to youths, which will build a better future by the concept of paying it forward. How are we going to achieve this? Phase 1 – Produce and release a series of Role Model online videos to help encourage volunteers to join our mentoring program in phase 2. Videos include: Public, Celebrities, Politicians, Sports Teams. Phase 2 – Working with the LGBTIQ Youth Organisation Twenty10, we are developing a mentor training program to provide volunteers / Teachers / Counsellors with the best training with dealing with LGBTIQ Youth issues. These mentors will then be seeded into community through schools and our online program in Phase 3. Phase 3 – Build and provide an online tool (Social Media Network) for our trained mentors to participate in providing guidance, assistance, advice and support to youths 24 hours per day through the micro-blogging site Twitter. This is the ‘lifeline’ model except it is based purely through Social Media channels.
The Community Brave Foundation Story Why are we doing this? Inequality for the LGBTIQ community is still a huge problem for our societies. However, these inequalities are now becoming dangerous and destructive. The danger lies with youth who are no longer able to escape from the taunts, the abuse and the emotional scaring of bullying. It no longer resides in school playgrounds, bullying has migrated and increased its power online due to anonymity and social technology (Social Networks, Smartphones). Too many youths have taken their lives, and our research suggests that their final cry for help is through the usage of Social Technology. That’s why this foundation aims to be there for every one of these young people who are going through suffering. We want to be able to talk to them, advise them of solutions and alternate strategies rather than self-harm or suicide. We want to be able to make a difference in our public schools through our teachers so that acceptance and tolerance is well and truly established as the upcoming generations enter adult society. We want everyone to be equal, and we don’t want to lose another young person due to online bullying, homophobia or transphobia. Who is the underlying organisation we are supporting? We are throwing our support behind an organisation that in 2012 have 30 years’ experiences with dealing with LGBTIQ youth – Twenty10. Twenty10 is a community based, non-profit state-wide organisation. Working with and supporting young people of diverse genders, sexes and sexualities, their families and friends. Twenty10 is a safe place and staff deal with all enquires in an understanding, supportive and confidential manner. Our Goals Short Term Goals Reduce Homophobia & Transphobia, spread tolerance and acceptance Stop online bullying and abuse Eradicate suicide amongst youths from LGBTIQ community (but not limited to) Long Term Goals Create social change so that there is no discrimination towards the LGBTIQ community by providing educators with the necessary training to address, respond and teach these learning’s in our public schools
Here’s how to help The Community Brave Become a Community Brave Mentor Registrations are now open for members of the public to become Community Brave Mentors. Our specialised training program will commence soon, and is being developed in conjunction with Twenty10. Please note you must be over 18 to register to become a Community Brave Mentor. Share this photo on your Facebook Page Want something very simple to do? Simply click on this image, which opens up to our Facebook Photo Page. Then hit the ‘share’ button and share this image on your timeline. The rest is magic! Yep, that simple! Share our Videos on your Social Networks Watch our videos on YouTube and share them on Facebook, Twitter, Blogs and your other social networks. Email a Friend about The Community Brave Foundation Email our website to your contacts. Send www.thecommunitybravefoundation.org as a link!
The Community Brave Foundation Website How it will work We are setting up The Community Brave Foundation Website to be rolled out in 3 phases. This allows us to better capture, engage, interact and influence our audience as we prepare to go live with our Social Media Platform that will serve as the 24/7 online portal for youths who are dealing with issues related to online bullying, homophobia, transphobia, self-harm and suicide issues. Phase 1 – Live Date: March 16, 2012 Phase 1 of the website will allow our visitors to engage with our video content that we are producing. There will be a total of 5 videos made. These are: Kylie Tribute – Filmed on Location at Sydney Mardi Gras 2012 Gaga Tribute – Filmed on Location at Sydney Mardi Gras 2012 Celebrity Video – Some wonderful celebrities will share their experiences with you about Bullying and encourage you to participate in our program Sports Stars Video – Working with some amazing sports teams to send a strong message from these positive role models about online bullying and International Day against Homophobia (IDAHO – May 17) Politicians Video – a message of support from our leaders. Website visitors will be able to connect with Community Brave through our Social Media Platforms and register to become Community Brave Mentors
The Community Brave Foundation Website Phase 2 – Live Date: TBA Phase 2 of the website will include all the features from Phase 1 but also shows support that Community Brave receives from all the Community Organisations, Businesses, Partners and community members who help make Community Brave a success. We also encourage further support from all community organisations to get on board too! It’s our little way of saying thank you to everyone who makes this project possible. Phase 3 – Live Date: TBA Phase 3 is the big one. We are launching our official website which will have lots of information about us, about whom our Community Brave mentors are and the work we are doing in the community. With links to all of our social media platforms, our e-newsletter and our videos, you will be able to interact and engage with us at any time of the day. Our website will also be our portal to our network of mentors, so this phase is targeted at the whole community, but more importantly at Youths who wish to connect with Community Brave. You will also be able to find lots of resources, details of upcoming events and ‘how-to-guides’ for everyone! (Youths, Students, Teachers, Parents, Organisations) There will also be a Smart Device app available in phase 3 for iOS (incl. iPad), Android, Bada, Blackberry & Windows7! So it is a little bit of a wait until we get to the final phase of the project (estimating around September / October 2012) but we will certainly be providing lots of good content until then. So be sure to put us in your favourites, follow our Social Media pages and stay up to date with how you can help eradicate Online Bullying, Homophobia, Transphobia and Youth Suicide. We change the world. Starting Now.
The Community Brave Foundation Website We would also like to pay special thanks to E-Strategy Group for building our site! Couldn’t have done it without you! With the most humble gratefulness, The Community Brave Team Connect with us here: Community Brave on Facebook Community Brave on Twitter Community Brave on Google+ Community Brave on YouTube Community Brave on Tumblr
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