By Liz Welch | Executive Director
Our moms are the heartbeat of the Mama Dragons organization. In this moment, that heart is beating a little faster due to the circumstances we all find ourselves in.
Although many Mama Dragons are used to challenging times having walked their path from confronting non-affirming churches to creating affirming homes, this moment may be the most critical so far. Not only are they having courageous conversations across the kitchen table but are having to navigate new challenges every day.
Mama Dragons is rising to meet the needs of the community we serve.
Recently, we concluded that having 50+ private Mama Dragons Facebook groups with over 13,000 members wasn't the most effective way of communicating and also wasn't a safe space to hold the peer-to-peer support, classes, and community building that our Mama Dragons need in a time like this. We opened a new, private, secure network that holds parenting classes and support systems in one central virtual community center and are not charging any fees for our community to join us there. Because of the investment we made in this network, we have more capacity to do the work we believe in. We have expanded our classes in partnership with many national organizations and are offering those on a rolling basis. We are offering more suicide prevention training. We are also able to offer more group therapy sessions.
But we are looking forward and are about to embark on a national outreach project that will reach deep into communities where parents are just beginning the journey our Mama Dragons have taken. We are reaching out to conservative spaces and conservative faiths where mamas who want to support their LGBTQ+ children but don't have the knowledge or resources might feel isolated.
It's not easy working in those spaces, but its where the need to create affirming homes may be the greatest. And we are ready to fight like a dragon to support, educate and empower mothers of LGBTQ+ kids to do just that.
Your generous donations will help with that outreach and that life-saving mission.
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