Family Week 2025 Schedule

Come check-in for Family Week with COLAGE and Family Equality. Get your swag bag and make sure you’re ready to go for the week ahead!

Come join COLAGE for our Family Week kick off! Youth will get to meet their facilitators, parents will get to mingle with each other and COLAGE staff, and everyone can participate in fun crafts and games! 

This is an info session for prosepctive and current LGBTQ+ parents about COLAGE and our programming. Whether you are registered with COLAGE or not, you are welcome to join this info session and learn what COLAGE programming offers, and how we can best support our youth.

5-18 year olds registered with COLAGE are welcome to join our daily workshops that are led by trained facilitators who have LGBTQ+ parents/caregivers for youth with LGBTQ+ parents/caregivers. All workshops prioritize community building, games, and social justice conversations/activites. 

Lunch Chats are affinity spaces for COLAGErs to connect with others with shared identities. Monday’s chats are Adopted COLAGErs, People with Trans Parents, and Donor Conceived COLAGErs. Please ensure that your youth brings their own lunch if they intend to eat during the lunch chats.

The whole family is welcome to join us for Drag Bingo! Come share your love, your laughter and your wallet for an afternoon to benefit COLAGE. Come for the queen, the kitsch, and the prizes. Seatings are at 12:15pm, 2:00pm, and 3:45pm. Ticket links here:

Day 1 of the FIT program. Youth entering their junior and senior year of High School are eligible to participate in our FIT program to work with facilitation experts and hone their skills to prepare them to be a COLAGE facilitator once they’re out of High School.

High Schoolers are welcome to come learn more about what the Youth Action Board is all about and how to join. This is great event to attend for any High Schooler interested in being involved with COLAGE year-round. Free pizza will be provided!

5-18 year olds registered with COLAGE are welcome to join our daily workshops that are led by trained facilitators who have LGBTQ+ parents/caregivers for youth with LGBTQ+ parents/caregivers. All workshops priortize community building, games, and social justice conversations/activites.

Tuesday we will hold an Anti-Racism lunch chat. Please ensure that your youth brings their own lunch if they intend to eat during the lunch chats.

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Join us for an afternoon with our COLAGE community! This is an opportunity to connect with other COLAGE families and COLAGE facilitators, play some lawn games, and do some arts and crafts. Make sure to show up early to snag some snacks from Box Lunch and Scott Cakes!

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Day 2 of the FIT program. Youth entering their junior and senior year of High School are eligible to participate in our FIT program to work with facilitation experts and hone their skills to prepare them to be a COLAGE facilitators once they’re out of High School.

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Lunch Chats are affinity spaces for COLAGErs to connect with others with shared identities. Wednesday’s chats are People with Disabilities and Non-disabled allies. Please ensure that your youth brings their own lunch if they intend to eat during the lunch chats.

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Day 3 of the FIT program. Youth entering their junior and senior year of High School are eligible to participate in our FIT program to work with facilitation experts and hone their skills to prepare them to be COLAGE facilitators once they’re out of High School.

On Thursday morning, COLAGErs will get to pick which “do-something” workshop they want to be in. There will also be an opportunity for them to present/perform what they worked on during the Variety Show on Friday!

Lunch Chats are affinity spaces for COLAGErs to connect with others with shared identities. Thursday’s chat is Second Gen COLAGErs. Please ensure that your youth brings their own lunch if they intend to eat during the lunch chats.

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Day 4 of the FIT program. Youth entering their junior and senior year of High School are eligible to participate in our FIT program to work with facilitation experts and hone their skills to prepare them to be a COLAGE facilitators once they’re out of High School.

Come support the next generation; it’s time for COLAGErs to speak! Families and community are invited to listen to our teens talk about what it’s like being a COLAGEr today, their challenges, joys, and what they want to tell the world. This is an especially great place for parents and prospective parents to listen to the wisdom of our youth.

All age groups will have their closing circle to reflect on the week and make lasting connections that carry through the year! A group picture will be take here so make sure to wear your COLAGE shirt! Please note that pick up is at 11:30 on Friday.

Families are invited to watch our youth show off their creativity, projects, and talent at our annual Variety Show! We’re being joined by Alysia Abbott, author of Fairyland, now a major motion picture! This is COLAGE’s most popular event of the week, you don’t want to miss it.

This event is for Crew and High School to dance and celebrate with us! This year, we’ll have a personalized photo booth for teens to capture their unforgettable friendships and memories! Crew leaves at 8:30pm so High Schoolers can have some time for just them.