Ensuring Virginia's sexual minority youth an equal opportunity for success since 1991.

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Letter from ROSMY Board

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How can YOU help Virginia’s GLBTQ youth?

Sponsorship of a CRISIS package only $30
Each CRISIS package contains a personalized letter, the CRISIS curriculum for fostering positive discussion about differences with youth, parents, and caregivers, 50 Youth Support Line Cards, and a companion copy of Mitchell Gold’s moving look at 40 real accounts of growing up gay in America, CRISIS. Call (804)644-4800 to be a sponsor.
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Project Discovery

Community News!

If you are woman or know a woman coming out later in life, there is a safe, confidential forum for you to share your experience with others and seek support.

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Giving to ROSMY

Please consider ROSMY when planning your annual giving.  Click below for more information about our participation in United Way, the Combined Federal Campaign Local and the Government & School Campaign.
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Supporters

Thank you for helping our youth be themselves

HEROES: $10,000 or more:

  • Sam Cramer & Michael Vitale
  • Marcus & Carole Weinstein
  • Community Foundation
  • Dominion Resources Services, Inc.
  • John Randolph Foundation

CHAMPIONS: $5,000 to $9,999.99

  • Sean Storey & Clay Dye
  • Bama Works Fund of Dave Matthews Band
  • Capital One
  • Charlottesville Area Community Foundation
  • Kip Kephart Foundation
  • Weinstein Properties
  • Wellpoint Foundation

LEADERS: $2,500 TO $4,999.99

  • Todd Anderson & Wes Clay
  • Van Baskins & Marc Purintun
  • Robert Greene
  • Lisa Halberstadt & Jeff Lacker
  • Joan Harrison
  • Norman & Joyce Scher
  • Ed Street
  • Clayton Vail & Patty McCormack
  • First Market Bank
  • Pence-Nissan-Subaru-Kia

ADVOCATES: $1,000 to $2,499.99

  • Larry & Pamela Anderson
  • Ed Barlow
  • Ellen Bass
  • Donna Brodd
  • Roy Burgess II
  • Marge Connelly & Julie Christopher
  • Michael Francis
  • Rick Godsey
  • Bruce Gray
  • William Harrison, Jr.
  • Suzanne Hogg
  • Bart Lacks
  • Jack Marshall & Charles Dyson
  • Martin McDay
  • Jerry Moreno
  • Steve Murden
  • Frosty Owen
  • Andrew Piretti
  • Karen Raschke & Don Creach
  • Alan Rudnick & Marciano Villamiel
  • Pete Sharpe & Sam Khan
  • Walter Sheppe
  • Eric Smith & Donnie Conner
  • Theresa Swann
  • George Tillman & Lloyd Bryant
  • Timothy Turner
  • David vanBlaricom & Bill Thomas
  • Don Warren
  • Allison Weinstein & Ivan Jecklin
  • Roberta Williamson
  • Altria Group, Inc.
  • PILC & Moseley, LLC
  • Richmond Gay Community Foundation, Inc.

MENTORS: $500 - $999.99

  • Phil Bennett
  • Thurman Cash, III
  • Donald Cook
  • Malinda Collier
  • Jerry & Kim Dougherty
  • Daniel Elder
  • Aaron Gilchrist
  • James Hartman, Jr.
  • Sharon Nuzik
  • Josh Hildreth & Rick Robinson
  • Mary Rainier
  • Martha & David Shotwell
  • Alicia Thompson
  • Tom Wagstaff
  • First Unitarian Universalist Church
  • Galaxy Diner
  • Microsoft Matching Gifts Program
  • PFLAG of Richmond
  • Sojourners United Church of Christ

FRIENDS: $250 - $499.99

  • Patricia Boland
  • Louis Briel
  • Carter Bryan
  • Joseph & Vanessa Chase
  • Deborah Cohn & Charlotte Patterson
  • Scott Cook
  • Mark Falls
  • John Fisher & Bret Sawyer
  • Stuart Glaser
  • Christopher Gongaware
  • Christopher Hansen
  • Chris Hester
  • Jim Hill & Doug Kleffner
  • Jennifer Jackson
  • Michael Jones
  • Cynthia Kella
  • Mary Martin
  • Curtis Maynard
  • Leonard Mick III
  • Judy Pahren
  • Judd Proctor & Brian Burns
  • Patricia Sauls & Mark Mobley
  • John & Martha Sherman
  • Daniel & Peggy Siegel
  • Graham & Lyndele von Schill
  • Christopher Snyder
  • Susan Way & Deborah Matthews
  • David White
  • Barbara Wiseman
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • Mosaic
  • Partnership for Nonprofit Excellence
  • The Owen Family Foundation
  • Word.Marketing & Income Development Solutions

LEGACY SOCIETY

We would like to thank the following for remembering ROSMY in their Estate Planning:

  • Dr. Waverly Cole & Dr. John Cook
  • Dale Jackson
  • Guy Kinman

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Our Wish List

We'd love to have the following DVDs in our library.  If you'd like to donate one or more DVDs to us, please send them to:

ROSMY
c/o Ashley Mitchell
2311 Westwood Ave
Richmond, VA 23230
804-644-4800

If you'd prefer to make a donation toward the purchase of one or more DVDs, please donate through our account with Network for Good - and include "DVD Donation" in the note.

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THANK YOU!

A Home at the End of the World
All Over Me
And the Band Played On
Beautiful Thing
Becoming Ayden
Before Night Falls
Boy I am
But I’m a Cheerleader
Call me malcom
Camp
Camp Out
Cruel and Unusual
DeLovely
Edge of Seventeen
Far From Heaven
For the Bible tells me so
Frida
Girl Inside
If these walls could talk 2
Philadelphia
Prom Queen
Southern Comfort
Sugar
The 24 th Day
The Birdcage
Toilet Training
Transamerica
Transparent

Become a trained ROSMY facilitator!

Work directly with GLBTQ youth ages 14-20 in a support group setting. You must be 23 years old or over to become a facilitator. An application and background check are required. Please e-mail Youth Programs Coordinator and Volunteer Manager Ashley Mitchell at youthprograms@rosmy.org to sign-up for training. This is a unique and great experience to work with youth who struggle with sexual orientation and gender identity. We look forward to seeing you there!

Dates are as follows:

*YOU MUST ATTEND BOTH PORTIONS OF THE TRAINING FOR YOUR CERTIFICATION TO DEEM YOU A FACILITATOR

*Dinner will be provided on Friday and lunch on Saturday

ROSMY Charlottesville

FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2010 from 6-9pm AND SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 2010 from 10am-4pm

LOCATION: ASG Building*, 963 2nd Street SE,Charlottesville, VA 22902 *Please visit the ASG website for directions—map quest/Google maps/etc do not take you to the correct location: ASG directions

(ROSMY CHARLOTTESVILLE support groups meet every Monday evening from 6:30-8:30pm and there are monthly volunteer meetings).

ROSMY Richmond

FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2010 from 6-9pm AND SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2010 from 10am-4pm

LOCATION: ROSMY BUILDING-2311 Westwood Avenue - Richmond, Virginia 23230

(ROSMY RICHMOND support groups meet every Tuesday evening from 6:30-8:30pm and there are monthly volunteer meetings).