Note from the President
Reflections of a Safe Schools Kid
By Enrique Campos, Safe Schools Desert Cities board member When I was a freshman in high school back in 2012, I attended my first Safe Schools Desert Cities (SSDC) event, Pride Prom, held at the Palm Springs Art Museum. It was there where I realized there was a world...
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Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast: May 11
The Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast is back for another wonderful year of celebrating diversity and the LGTBQ+ community. A gathering of 1,000 will be the largest in the nation to honor Harvey Milk...
Dance the Night Away at Pride Prom
Provided by Mary E. B. Perry, public information officer, Desert Sands Unified School District Safe Schools Desert Cities supports the youth of our community in so very many ways. As an active...
A Hopeful Spring
In March 2020, the Rainbow Youth Summit became our last in-person event of that year as the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold. The waves of infection surges that followed required the...
Safe Schools Desert Cities supports local LGBT youth
Originally from KESQ - View Post The organization "Safe Schools Desert Cities" works to empower local LGBT youth, offering scholarships and financial assistance awards. News Channel 3's Peter Daut...
SSDC Events Back in Action
By Mary Perry, SSDC Communications Committee & 2021-2022 Champion of Youth We’re back! After many months of what we see as inactivity for our students, there is lots of planning going on here at...
Safe Schools Desert Cities and GSA Clubs Gather for Pride
By Eric Ornelas, SSDC president The 2021 Greater Palm Springs Pride Festival was held on November 6 and 7 in downtown Palm Springs where Safe Schools Desert Cities hosted the Youth Zone and marched...


