Education & Community-Social Wellness
Lake Castagna is a consultant in Oregon serving businesses and education agencies with the following and similar activities: Affinity Group Support, Community Connections, Events, Policy Analysis, & Professional Learning
About Lake Castagna
Lake (they/she) is a licensed educator for 6th to 12th grade. They have taught in 3 different school settings, including a traditional comprehensive middle school, a school that serves 7th to 12th grade students who are impacted by the justice system, and a K-8 special education school that serves students with emotional and behavioral needs.
Lake founded and runs the non-profit Queer Eugene, which serves the community through 3 main tenets: Resources, Education, and Community. These tenets grew out of Lake’s perspective for creating and supporting community.
Lake has been been working as an Educator & Community-Social Wellness Consultant part-time, and as of 2024 has made it their full-time work.
Affinity Group Support
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Create, maintain, and/or support affinity groups for youth and adults
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Help affinity groups with direction of meetings and activities
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Provide resources for participants of the affinity groups
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Provide leadership training and advocacy training to affinity group members
Community Connections
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Build relationships between organizations to help create more support within the area that will mutually benefit the participants
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Develop programs and events between organizations that will allow for more support of chosen focal groups
Events
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Support with planning and executing events that support marginalized groups in an organization (could be focused on a single group or joining multiple groups together)
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Providing suggestions to previously established events to offer perspectives and ideas to better incorporate equity & inclusion
Policy Analysis
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Analysis of policies and protocols that organizations use for decision making
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Analysis of documents (hiring paperwork, job applications, job duties, etc) to look at equitable and inclusive language and framing in the documents
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Policy template designing and draft writing for topics and ideas that the organization wants to implement but doesn’t know where to start
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Support with implementing new initiatives