Youth CHAT ROOM Lounge
April 2022 Update: Thursday night chat is back!
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Often our Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning youth are isolated and don’t have options to seek each other out and form friendships and community. Our weekly chat rooms aim to give them a space where young people can come together. Our Weekly chat rooms have dedicated moderators to safe guard each room. We will not permit hate speech, sexist, homophobic, biphobic, transphobic, queerphobic, body shaming jokes or comments. These rooms are welcoming and affirming. Please do not assume anyone's gender or sexual orientation. Please use a person's chosen name and pronoun. |
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These rooms are set to be Safer Spaces.
Because they are open to the public we can’t guarantee that someone won’t come in and say hateful things, but this is one of the reason’s we safe guard the room with moderators that can delete messages and block spammers.
We understand that an attack from a negative person can be triggering, please let the moderator know if you need a minute to talk privately or to start a group dialog about how to combat hate speech.
Because they are open to the public we can’t guarantee that someone won’t come in and say hateful things, but this is one of the reason’s we safe guard the room with moderators that can delete messages and block spammers.
We understand that an attack from a negative person can be triggering, please let the moderator know if you need a minute to talk privately or to start a group dialog about how to combat hate speech.
Our Moderators facilitate the chatrooms and their main goal is to keep the entire room safe which requires them to be able to focus primarily on the room. While we do have private instant messaging to/from the Moderators they can’t always respond immediately.
There may be times they have more IMs than one person can handle while still being able to focus on the room. They are not intentionally ignoring or slighting anyone, but their priority has to be first on the room itself. At times, a private message topic goes beyond what a moderator can focus on and give the deserved attention to. In that case we do encourage you to either call the Youth Talkline or use our one-to-one CHAT to have a conversation with a peer support volunteer who can give you their full attention.
There may be times they have more IMs than one person can handle while still being able to focus on the room. They are not intentionally ignoring or slighting anyone, but their priority has to be first on the room itself. At times, a private message topic goes beyond what a moderator can focus on and give the deserved attention to. In that case we do encourage you to either call the Youth Talkline or use our one-to-one CHAT to have a conversation with a peer support volunteer who can give you their full attention.