Mission
Rock Camp SLC empowers girls, transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive youth from all backgrounds through music education, collaboration, and performance. Rock Camp SLC’s Virtual Hangouts serve as an online space where members of our community can come together. The Virtual Hangouts exists to foster an environment to support, educate, and reach out to members of Rock Camp SLC’s community. Rock Camp SLC facilitates and moderates this group, and within it provides resources, educational information, and support.
Code of Conduct
This group consists of an intersectional community with individuals from all different backgrounds meet and interact. To ensure that interactions in this digital space remain productive and amicable, we have created these rules of participation to outline and encourage appropriate behaviors within the group. If you have any questions or feedback on these policies, please send an email to Rock Camp SLC at info@rockcampslc.org
1.) Privacy
This is a space where people are welcome to share information that may be considered intimate and private, such as details about their gender identity, emotions, mental health, physical health, and many other aspects of their personal lives. It is of the utmost importance that we preserve privacy and confidentiality of information shared within this group. Do not share comments, discussions, or images that are shared within this group unless the original poster has given you explicit permission to do so. This also means no screenshots can be taken and shared outside the group. When sessions are going to be recorded or streamed live online, all participants will be notified at the beginning of the meeting.
2.) Respect Each Other
We are a diverse community of individuals of different backgrounds, identities, and experiences. Our diversity includes (but is not limited to) gender, sexuality, age, class, education, religion, ethnicity, and national origin. It is crucial to respect that we all have unique histories, backgrounds and values, and as such our perspectives and experiences will vary. If you find yourself disagreeing with another, remember to assume positive intent and respond from a place of compassion with the goal to help increase understanding, as opposed to the goal being to punish. It is fine to disagree with someone, but it is unacceptable to treat them with disrespect. Bullying or disrespecting other members will be met with warnings and can lead to ejection from the group.
3.) Communication
A Rock Camp SLC director will facilitate each Virtual Hangout. They will come prepared with discussion prompts and will be flexible with topics that come up in the group. When starting a new discussion topic, we suggest communicating your hopes and intent with the conversation.
Are you seeking support and validation, hoping that others will share their experiences and offer sympathy?
Are you looking to solve a problem and seeking input and advice? What kind of response are you hoping for?
Are you feeling tender and needing sensitivity? If so, let people know!
Remember that when sharing a conversation, anticipate that folx will respond, and they will do so with different perspectives and potentially even different opinions from your own. Remember that someone disagreeing is not necessarily an attack against you or your post, and treat one another with respect (see Rule 2).
When responding to a discussion — Please check for specific requests the original poster made for the type of response that they are seeking. If you are unable to respond in the manner that was requested, please consider skipping participation in that post. If you feel the post violates the mission and objectives of this group, it is appropriate to let the Virtual Hangout Facilitator know.
4.) Inappropriate Content
Posts within this group are expected to be non-violent, non-threatening, and non-sexual. Discussions and comments need to be appropriate for all individuals and their varying comfort levels. Please know that the facilitator will end discussions that contain hate speech, other inappropriate content, or links to inappropriate content. If this occurs the facilitator will contact the original poster to give feedback and a chance for dialogue about why the post or comment was declined and/or deleted.
If you as a member come across content that you feel is inappropriate or otherwise violates our Code of Conduct, please alert the facilitator immediately. This allows us to take appropriate action within accordance of our guidelines and judgment.
5.) Community Events
The administrators may share upcoming events relevant to the Rock Camp SLC community and the mission we serve here within the group. These include events hosted by Rock Camp SLC, its programs, and partner organizations. If a member has an event they would like to share they are welcome to post about it, but please be sure to make it clear within the post that the event is not sponsored by Rock Camp SLC.
6.) Language
This space is geared towards youth ages 8 to 17 from all different backgrounds, so please refrain from swearing. We do not allow for hate speech or slurs. Bear in mind that language is ever evolving, and some groups may ‘reclaim’ a word that was originally a slur. Be sensitive and assume good intent, but bear in mind that certain words can cause people offense.
Pronouns must be respected within this group. If someone corrects you on their pronouns, accept the correction, apologize simply (not excessively) for misgendering, and correct your language to include appropriate use of the individual’s pronouns going forward. Disrespecting an individual’s pronouns and/or gender identity will lead to warnings and a ban from this group.
Facilitators and Moderators
The facilitators and moderators of this space are Rock Camp SLC directors or volunteers dedicating their time and energy to managing this group. As such, we request understanding and patience while we and this group learn and grow with you. If something needs our attention, please let us know, give us feedback, and let us know what’s going on and how we can do better!
We will strive for confidentiality and respect while adhering to and enforcing the Code of Conduct guidelines of this group. We will honor requests for confidentiality/anonymity of those asking questions, lodging complaints, or bringing concerns to the facilitator and moderator team.
We will strive to mediate and resolve disputes as they arise, and will remove/ban members from the group only after an attempt is made at the dispute resolution process. The exceptions to this are if the member uses overt/explicit hate speech, in which case they will be banned immediately.