In the Winter of 2006, private therapists and community members organized with the North Thurston School District to provide an after-school support group for high school students who identify as LGBTQQ. Many of these youth do not have access to LGBTQ information or support. They often live at home with fairly conservative families and do not have internet privacy to look online, if they even know where to look. Many are not willing to come out to their parents or to their classmates. They are relatively young and do not have transportation or an ability to get to the Stonewall Youth group meetings during the evening in downtown Olympia. The after-school group was discontinued in fall 2007 after students who attended were discovered by parents and suffered punishment.
Representatives from PFLAG-Olympia, Stonewall Youth, PiPE, private therapists, and high school counselors and faculty gathered and decided the most effective way to offer youth safe access to services, information, and support was during the school day lunch period. Thus, the Pizza Klatch was formed in December 2007 in North Thurston and Timberline high schools. We served our first pizza in February of 2008, on the assumption that we would find money – somehow. We’ve continued to provide pizzas to 4 lunches per week since then (excluding holidays, breaks for summer, etc.).
Pizza Klatch What Where When Poster (pdf file, tabloid size: 11"x17" - 322 kb)Dog Show 2012 - Dog Show Registration Form (.doc file) Dog Show Sponsorship Form (.doc file)
Hawaii Raffle - Hawaii Raffle 2012 (pdf file)
