As a result of the Child Protection Act, the Labrisz Leszbikus Egyesület's program called Warmth and Cognition was pushed out of high schools, the organization has now announced its LGBTQ training, which has been running for more than twenty years, to parents in the form of online conversations.

In addition to involving parents, however, Labrisz also considers it important to prepare teachers and social workers, since they deal with children for a significant part of the time.

After the Hungarian government legislated in the summer of 2021 that the sexual education of children is the sole responsibility of parents, the presence and invitations of the Labrisz Lesbian Association at schools have practically dropped to zero in recent months. The organization financed by the Open Society Institute was therefore forced to look for new ways to continue its program called Warmth and Cognition, which were soon found - citing parental responsibility.

It turned out that the association wants to address the parents instead of the children with the sensitization program, so between February and June 2022, it will launch a series of six online discussions, where they will discuss a topic with the volunteers of the training, as well as with the involvement of parents and professionals. During the online discussions, they will touch on topics such as coming out, educating preschool children, the situation of rainbow families, family holidays, and handling Pride events.

In addition to free information for parents, Labrisz will continue to consider it important to prepare teachers and social workers, since, as they say, their presence is much more decisive than a ninety-minute Labrisz class. "Since the school programs have stopped and we have teacher training anyway, we can continue if we call them, since they are with the children every day. It is important what kind of attitude they have at school, more important than us being there for 90 minutes.

We are trying to reach them, the school social workers and the parents, because we think it is important that both LGBTQ youth and members of the majority society get help on this topic," Györgyi Kövesi, one of the members of Melegség és ognezés, told Hvg.hu program manager coordinator.

The full article of Magyar Nemzet can be read here.

Author: Elek Nikoletta

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