*Please Note: This episode was recorded in September 2021.

In her last episode as host, Sanya Bhartiya reflects on her experience in VOCO Youth Choirs.

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*Please Note: This episode was recorded in September 2021.

The incredible report I mentioned: Transforming the Culture of Power - Center for American Progress

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Host Sanya Bhartiya offers insight into how sexual assault and gender-based violence impacts youth and how we can better Be the Love to youth and contribute to holistic sexual assault prevention.

Survivor and Supporter Resources:
Resources (ncadv.org)
Resources for Supporters - Sexual Assault Youth Support Network (saysn.org)
Teen Dating Violence | School Safety Resource Center (colorado.gov)
Sexual Assault | School Safety Resource Center (colorado.gov)
The Blue Bench: Metro Denver's only comprehensive sexual assault support and prevention center

More Information:
Gender-based violence | United Nations Population Fund (unfpa.org)
MMIW — Native Womens Wilderness
WWV-GBV-Fact-Sheet-Final.pdf (ywca.org)

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GLAAD's beautiful page of resources: How to support the trans community this Pride | GLAAD

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Host Sanya Bhartiya offers an introduction to the validity of and misinformation against trans and non-binary people that can serve as a basis for engaging with trans and non-binary people, stories, and activists in a respectful, affirming, Loving way.

More information:
Trans + Gender Identity - The Trevor Project
One Colorado
2021 Anti-LGBTQ Legislation - Human Right's Campaign
The Fight Against Anti-Transgender Legislation - Elle
How many Genders are There? - notcorry
Responding to JK Rowling's Essay| Is it Anti-Trans? - Jammidodger
Jessie Gender's "LGBTQ+ Issues" Playlist

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VOCO singers Sanya Bhartiya and Josh Hawkins discuss why and how to extend Being the Love to ourselves.

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Host Sanya Bhartiya reflects on finishing high school and explores how celebration can be a form of Love.

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Donate to Youth Sustainability Board here

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Some of the youth of Vocal Coalition(in order of appearance: Rochelle Reese, Audra Snyder, Sophia Haynes, Billy Spaur, Josh Hawkins, and Katie Spaur, as well as host Sanya Bhartiya) share their thoughts on the problems and solutions regarding the most looming threat to our future: climate change.

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Host Sanya Bhartiya explains how the horrific gun violence crisis in the United States needs immediate solutions and offers her insight and information she has learned about both the problem and the solution.

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References:

• Gun violence: Prediction, prevention, and policy (apa.org)
• Facts on U.S. gun ownership and gun policy views | Pew Research Center
• Boulder, Colorado, mass shooting: America’s gun violence rates, in 16 maps and charts - Vox
• The Geography of Gun Deaths - The Atlantic
• Gun deaths in the U.S.: 10 key questions answered | Pew Research Center
• Guns and Violence Against Women: America’s Uniquely Lethal Intimate Partner Violence Problem | Everytown Research & Policy | Everytown Research & Policy
• 8 facts about gun control in the US | What you need to know | DW | 20.01.2020
• A huge international study of gun control finds strong evidence that it actually works - Vox
• Gun Violence Archive
• Universal Background Checks | Giffords

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Resource Card:  Anti-Asian Violence Resources (anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co)

We Need to Talk About Anti-Asian Hate documentary:  We Need To Talk About Anti-Asian Hate - YouTube

Host Sanya Bhartiya reflects on how the recent rise in anti-Asian hate crimes and the mass shooting in Atlanta, Georgia embody long-held patterns, beliefs, and issues in American society and on how we can Be the Love to the AAPI community in this time. #StopAsianHate #TalkAsianHate

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National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255

VOCO singers Sanya Bhartiya and Billy Spaur explore what motivates us to create art and how that allows us to grow in our respective personal journeys to Be the Love to ourselves and others.

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VOCO singers Sanya Bhartiya and Sophia Haynes explain why incorporating arts into education is so vital to teaching students and young people how to Be the Love to themselves and others.

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