Connecting Today's Youth to their Future Possibilities
The Network is a working resource center for all youth with a focus on LGBTQ+ youth in the Southwest area. The Network works to combat bullying and suicide with local and national entities while assisting our youth to get connected to credible and reliable resources.
The Network vision, with the aid of Private and Public assistance, is to help facilitate a flow of credible and reliable information for our youth. The Network will work to strive for a world that transcends the division of gender and sexual identification.
The Network
A Bit of Background
Here at The Network, we are driven by a single goal; to do our part to help the youth of our southwestern community. A team of local advocates is working hard to make sure we are doing our best to assist our community in the best way that we can. We strive to hold not only other entities accountable but ourselves as well as we recommend our youth to their services. It is our vision to one day open a transition center for our communities displaced youth so that they may have hope that they can and will be successful in the future.
The Network is in the business of changing and shaping lives. The work we do at our organization is aimed at providing and helping today's youth with looking for a better future. We make sure our youth is empowered by creating opportunities for them and also building communities partnerships in the process.
Community Activism
The Summit
The Summit was born to try and combat teens from bullying each other and also contemplating suicide. It is a day of empowerment and pride in being from or living in El Paso. It is a combination of the “It Gets Better” Facebook campaign and being proud El Pasoans. Instead of using celebrities, we tapped local business leaders that were born and grew up in El Paso, to help the students connect with the message being expressed. The message was simple. Whether you chose to attend UTEP, NSMU, Western Tech, Southwest University, Tri-State or decided not to attend any college or secondary education, that as long as they tried and graduated and stuck it out and worked hard, life would and does get better. A lunch break would follow and then the attendees would break into different break out sessions. These breakout sessions would be run by local entities that would help with either mental or physical or internet abuse.
The Network
Committed to the Cause
Victoria Rodriquez
Chief Executive Officer
Ray Dominguez
Chief Operations Officer
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does"
William James
