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We’re excited to be co-hosting Listening Sessions with QTBIPOC sauga this week and next! These listening sessions are for queer, trans, Black, Indigenous and people of colour who are currently living in OR who have lived, worked and/or studied in Peel (Brampton, Caledon, Mississauga).   In these sessions, we want to listen to the experiences […]

For it’s second round, LGBT YouthLine is excited to present Learning, Grounding, Growing: A Skills-Based Mental Health Workshop Series for 2SLGBTQ+ youth! ✨ From February 8th – March 9th , we invite 2SLGBTQ+ youth (ages 12-29) who live in Toronto to join us for a FREE, five-part workshop series. This series will teach you practical […]

LGBT YouthLine is currently revamping and updating our curriculum for volunteers on the Peer Support line. We are looking for freelance trainers, facilitators, educative content creators, videographers, animators, and graphic designers to support this work. We are hiring for roles of consultants, content developers, and other types of creators starting in January 2022 for this project. How this […]

We know the holidays can be tough for 2SLGBTQ+ youth, especially this year, as we enter yet another holiday season of isolation while we balance safety and seeing loved ones. Thanks to our shift supervisors and volunteers, our Peer Support HelpLine will be open for our regular hours!   We’re open Sunday-Friday. This includes December […]

LGBT YouthLine celebrates the passing of Bill C-4 (An Act to Amend the Criminal Code – Conversion Therapy) by the Canadian government to ban conversion “therapy” practices that harm 2SLGBTQ+ people in Canada. We commend the work done by various organizations and individuals in achieving this milestone, particularly that of No Conversion Canada.    According to No Conversion Canada, “conversion “therapy” is […]

This past year at YouthLine, we have felt the love, support, joy, and abundance of our communities. We want to thank you for being part of it all!   Almost two years into this pandemic, we’ve worked hard to make sure youth know that they are not alone. The increased isolation that youth have faced due […]

The Provincial Youth Ambassador Program is now offering dedicated Healing Spaces exclusive to 2SLGBTQ+ Black and Indigenous youth (ages 16-29) in Ontario!   Running from late December 2021 to March 2022, this initiative offers Youth Ambassadors in these pods the opportunity to engage each other in holistic conversations and activities centered on healing and the intersections of race, indigeneity, sexuality and gender.    Example workshops include: […]

2SLGBTQ+ service providers are wonderfully caring, incredibly strong and empathetic, and are absolutely in the best position to support 2SLGBTQ+ youth.   BUT, it’s also no secret within our communities that 2SLGBTQ+ service providers experience intense isolation, burnout, vicarious trauma, and systemic violence.   To better support 2SLGBTQ+ youth, we need space to support and […]

LGBT YouthLine is excited to present Learning, Grounding, Growing: A Skills-Based Mental Health Workshop Series for 2SLGBTQ+ youth! ✨   From November 15th to December 9th, we invite youth (ages 12-29) who live in Toronto to join us for a FREE, four-part workshop series. This series will teach you practical tools to support yourself and […]