For Students
Ally Week Organizing Manual
This easy-to-read guide with five simple steps you can take to organize an awesome Ally Week at your school, Download the manual. [pdf]
Sample Letters
- Administration - Letter to your school’s administration requesting support for Ally Week. Download WORD.doc
- School Clubs – Request support from student clubs at your school. Download WORD.doc
- Email to Participants – Send to people you know asking them to be allies. Download WORD.doc
GLSEN Jump-Start Guide
GLSEN created this resource for new and already-established Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) or similar clubs. There are eight separate guides that will take you through the process of establishing or re-establishing your group, identifying your mission and goals, and assessing your school's climate.
To see a more detailed description of the Jump-Start Guides and to download copies, click here.
For Educators
GLSEN’s Safe Space Kit
This popular kit offers you a manual for creating a Safe Space program in your school along with posters and stickers. To learn more, click here.
What Do We Really Think?
A Group Exercise to Increase Straight Ally Participation - The group exercise below is adapted from Social Norms Theory and the work of the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley. It encourages straight ally behavior by exploring the ways in which faulty assumptions perpetuate anti-LGBT bias. The exercise may be adapted for use with adult and student audiences. Download it here. (pdf)