Through Assembly Bill 132 (the Postsecondary Education Trailer Bill), the California State Chancellor's Office will provide one-time funds to community colleges to support LGBTQ+ students. The funds will include a baseline of $15,000 and additional allocations will be based on total student headcount and the number of students who receive Pell. Serving LGBTQ+ students is core to the California Community Colleges’ mission, critical to the Chancellor’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility work, Call to Action, and closely aligns with the Vision for Success goal to reduce equity gaps among traditionally underrepresented student groups. In alignment with the Chancellor's Office mission, serving and supporting LGBTQ+ students are core to Cañada College’s values of being an antiracist, equitable and inclusive college for marginalized, underrepresented and BIPOC students.

Our College hopes to apply to these funds and utilize them for: LGBTQ+ awareness and professional development with an antiracism lens, ongoing leadership development support for students, and Brave Space training and capacity building for our training.

The effort to submit a strategic plan, which documents how these funds will be allocated, is led by Cañada's Brave Space Trainers, formerly known as the SafeZone Team. We seek the college's support and feedback in this process so as to ensure our priorities align with the needs of our students and employees.