New Brunswick Policies & Lgbtq Resources

New Brunswick LGBTQ Inclusive Education Resource NEW BRUNSWICK POLICIES & LGBTQ RESOURCES New BruNswick Policies & lGBTQ resources For a continually updated web directory of regional and national resources, see MyGSA.ca/Resources New Brunswick Policies Policy 703 7 Policy 322 13 Policy NBTA 598-3 34 Policy E-9 41 New Brunswick School Improvement Indicators 47 LGBTQ and LGBTQ-Friendly Organizations, and Programmes in New Brunswick Province-Wide 52 AIDS New Brunswick/SIDA Nouveau-Brunswick Chimo Helpline Jeuness, J’ecoute Kids Help Phone Wabanaki Two Spirit Alliance (Atlantic) Bathurst 54 Gais.es Nor Gays Inc. Dieppe 55 TG Moncton Fredericton 55 AIDS NB Office Fredericton Pride Fredericton Sexual Assault Crisis Center Free 2 Be Me Spectrum (UNB) The UNB Safe Spaces Project UNB Sexuality Centre For a continually updated web directory of regional and national resources, see MyGSA.ca/Resources Moncton 60 Two Spirit Resources in Canada and the USA PFLAG Canada – Moncton Chapter River of Pride – Riviere de Fierte Inc SIDA/AIDS Moncton Canada 70 SIDA/AIDS Moncton – Safe Spaces Project Wabanaki Two Spirit Alliance (Atlantic) Transgender Support Group Native Youth Sexual Health Network UBU Moncton The North American Aboriginal Two Spirit Information Pages UN sur DIX Two Spirit Circle of Edmonton Society 2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations Sackville 64 Two Spirited People of Manitoba Inc. PFLAG Canada – Sackville, NB/Amherst, NS Chapter The Catalyst Society USA 72 Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (USA) Saint John 65 Dancing to Eagle Spirit Society (USA) AIDS Saint John Montana Two Spirit Society PFLAG Canada – Saint John Chapter NativeOUT (USA) Port City Rainbow Pride Inc North East Two-Spirit Society (USA) UNBSJ Q-Collective Tribal Equity Toolkit (USA) LGBTQ and LGBTQ-Friendly Organizations and Programmes in the Atlantic Region Atlantic Region 68 Healing Our Nations Wabanaki Two-Spirit Alliance Wayves New BruNswick Policies POLICY 703 http://www.gnb.ca/0000/pol/e/703A.pdf Original signed by Minister LGBTQ and LGBTQ-Friendly Organizations and Programmes 75 Subject: Positive Learning and Working Environment Effective: April 1, 1999 Amnesty International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Support Network Revised: September 1, 2001; December 2009; December 2013 Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS) 1.0 PURPOSE Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality (CCHS) This policy provides a framework for the Department of Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Education and Early Childhood Development, school districts Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA) and schools in consultation with the District Education Councils Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health (CPATH) to create positive learning and working environments in the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition (CRHC) public education system by: The Canadian Safe School Network (CSSN) • establishing a process for fostering positive learning and Egale Canada/Egale Canada Human Rights Trust (ECHRT) working environments that are inclusive, safe, respect Gay Canada human rights, support diversity and address discrimination regardless of real or perceived race, colour, religion, Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868 national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of origin, language MyGSA.ca group, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN) age, social condition or political belief or activity; and PFLAG Canada • setting standards for behaviour and discipline, and Report Homophobic Violence, Period (RHVP) identifying the responsibilities of all partners in the school Salaam Canada system; and TransParent Canada • providing an overview of expected student behaviour in the Provincial Student Code of Conduct. Additional Citations 82 5.0 GOALS / PRINCIPLES 5.1 Good citizenship and civility are modeled and reinforced throughout the school community. Every person is valued and treated with respect. 5.2 School personnel and students in the public school system have the right to work and to learn in a safe, orderly, productive, respectful and harassment-free environment. New Brunswick LGBTQ Inclusive Education Resource 7 5.3 Inclusive educational practices are supported and 6.0 REQUIREMENTS / STANDARDS promoted. Students are responsible for their behaviour PART 1: FOSTERING A POSITIVE LEARNING AND WORKING in accordance with their age and stage of development, ENVIRONMENT and to the extent to which their behaviour is voluntary. When disruptive behaviour is attributable to the student’s 6.1 The District Positive Learning and Working Environment exceptionality and he or she is unable to control this Plan behaviour, appropriate interventions will be employed with the needs of the student in mind. 6.1.1 Superintendents will ensure the development of a plan of assistance to ensure positive learning and working 5.4 Students have a sense of belonging and connection, environments in their districts in consultation with their feel they are supported by school personnel, and have a District Education Council. This plan promotes a learning positive relationship with at least one adult in the school environment that is inclusive, safe, respects human system. rights, supports diversity and addresses discrimination 5.5 Parents, school personnel, district staff and the school regardless of real or perceived race, colour, religion, community understand that social skills, self-discipline, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of origin, respect, empathy, compassion and ethics are learned language group, disability, sex, sexual orientation, throughout life. Each partner in education through gender identity, age, social condition or political belief instruction and continued education supports the or activity. formation of school-based groups that promote diversity 6.1.2 The District Positive Learning and Working Environment when interest is expressed by a student or staff member Plan will include strategies for managing inappropriate (examples include First Nations groups, multicultural behaviour by students as well as by parents or visitors groups, religious groups, and sexual minority groups). when interacting with the school and school personnel, 5.6 All members of the school community learn and work consistent with the Education Act, the New Brunswick together in an atmosphere of respect and safety, free from Human Rights Act, the workplace harassment policy homophobia, racism and all other forms of discrimination from the Administration Manuel System of the New that could lead to bullying and harassment. Appropriate Brunswick government, Policy 322 on Inclusive procedures and strategies are in place to ensure respect Education and this policy. for human rights, support diversity, and foster a learning 6.1.3 The district plan will be reviewed with the DEC prior to environment that is safe, welcoming, inclusive and implementation and whenever it is revised. affirming for all individuals. 6.2. The School Positive Learning and Working Environment Plan 6.2.1 The principal of the school must prepare the school’s positive learning and working environment plan. (see 6.1.1) The principal must report annually to the 8 Egale Canada Human Rights Trust New Brunswick LGBTQ Inclusive Education Resource 9 Superintendent on the plan and related strategies • direction for managing behaviours that are more implemented by the school in order to create a positive minor in nature but are disruptive because of their learning and working environment. This information will frequency. For example, defiance, disrespectful be made available to the Minister of Education and Early language and gestures, missing school or arriving Childhood Development, upon request. late. For some students, additional individual 6.2.2 The Senior Education Officer in collaboration with interventions will be required. When disruptive the PSSE will approve their schools’ plan prior to behaviour is substantial and persistent, a formal implementation and every three years thereafter. plan of intervention must be put in place; and Principals hold overall responsibility for their school’s • strategies aimed at preventing and resolving effectiveness in developing and implementing the plan. misunderstandings or disagreements between school personnel and parents or visitors to the school. 6.2.3 The school’s plan will be reviewed with the PSSC prior to implementation and whenever it is revised. 6.3 Serious Misconduct 6.2.4 The school’s plan will reflect the school community’s 6.3.1 The following are examples of behaviours exhibited by vision for the safe and inclusive learning and working any person that are viewed as extreme and unacceptable environment it wishes to achieve. It will include the in the New Brunswick public school system: (only those following elements: relevant) • a school statement on respecting human rights and • bullying, hazing or any form of intimidation; supporting diversity • cyber bullying - including, but not limited to, • expectations, roles and responsibilities for staff, posting inappropriate material online, sending students, parents and volunteers; harassing, deliberate or repeated emails and • a School Student Code of Conduct that is not posting items online without permission of those inconsistent with the Provincial Student Code of involved; Conduct (Appendix D) and the standards established • harassment – causing a person to fear for their in this policy. The School Student Code of Conduct safety or the safety of a person known

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