Support Near You
This referral database is for in-person and/or location-based services, organizations, and collectives, for 2SLGBTQ+ youth in Ontario.
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National Eating Disorder Information Centre
THIS SERVICE IS NON-QUEER, TRANS & LGBTQ SPECIFIC
NEDIC provides information, resources, referrals, and supports to Canadians affected by eating disorders. This includes our national toll-free helpline and chat service where individuals affected can speak to a trained support worker.
Contact
200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON
Native Youth Sexual Health Network
A grassroots, Indigenous youth led organization in cooperation with a network of intergenerational relatives that works across issues around reproductive health, rights and justice throughout the US and Canada.
We are youth led, but value the support of our intergenerational circles of relatives to do our work. Some of our areas of work include HIV/AIDS awareness, culturally safe sex education, #landback advocacy, Midwifery and Birth Justice, as well as Two-Spirit/Gender and Sexuality Education. Our network spans Turtle Island, creating space to engage with everything and anything that we know to affect our bodies, minds and spirits.
We often refer to each of our areas of work as a fire, and different folks in our network tend to different fires. We have a central fire, which the core team maintains (we do things like keeping the website running, connecting youth leaders with mentors and supports, and stewarding bigger projects). The smaller fires represent different key areas of work which we are currently feeding and tending to (for example, the harm reduction fire is tended by folks throughout our nations, who dedicate their focus to gathering resources to sustain harm reduction fires and inviting relatives to collaborate on work). Sometimes, when our capacity or the interests of youth leaders shifts, a fire may go out — sometimes temporarily, and sometimes for a long time. We acknowledge that this is within the teachings of many of our nations. Fires do not necessarily exist to be sustained forever, and we honour that every fire in our network’s work is governed by the youth leading it. We also encourage youth leaders to light new fires and create projects in their areas of interest!
Access Info: We host a variety of events and gatherings throughout Turtle Island in partnership with various organizations.
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Edmonton, AB
NBD (Non-Binary BIPOC Drop-In), Planned Parenthood Toronto
NBD is a bi-weekly virtual hang out space, open to all nonbinary, trans, genderdiverse, and questioning racialized youth, ages 13-29. It’s a space for discussion, chilling, arts & crafts, writing, zine-making, & more.
$10 PC gift card available for drop-in attendees each week.
Contact
36B Prince Arthur Avenue, Toronto, ON
Niagara Falls Community Health Centre
Provides primary healthcare to the residents of Niagara Falls along with health promotion programs and community development services including LGBTQ2+ Support. Patients have access to family physicians, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, a dietitian and social workers. There is also a Health Promotion team that provides community programs and outreach support. Open to the community.
Services include:
* Primary Health Care Services
*LGBTQ2+ Support – one-on-one, group programming, education
* Counselling
* Health Promotion Programs
* Outreach support
* Caring For My COPD program
* Birth Certificate Clinic
* Smoking cessation support – individual and group support
Contact
4790 Victoria Avenue, Niagara Falls, ON
North Simcoe Youth Wellness Hub
The North Simcoe Youth Wellness Hub offers a wide range of services to youth age 12-25 at the right time and in the right place.
Our services are offered both in-person and virtually, are easy to access, and are offered with little to no wait times as we aim to be as low barrier as possible.
Services include:
- 2SLGBTQ+ Services (Provided through our partners at the Gilbert Centre)
- Mental Health Services
- Substance Use Services
- Peer Support Services
- Primary Care – Physical Health Services
- Education Services
- Employment Services
- Support for youth with special needs
- Housing Supports
- Variety of workshops and cultural teachings
Additionally serving Tay Township, Tiny Township and Beausoleil Island
Contact
287 Bayshore Drive, Midland, ON
ODE: Remembered Voices, The 519
ODE: Remembered Voices is a two-spirit/LGBTQ+ Indigenous Youth led group within the Greater Toronto Area. ODE runs programming primarily on Friday evenings out of the 519 Community Centre who generously donates space to us to run our drop-ins which usually consist of dinner together at 5:00 p.m., followed by group programming beginning at 6:00 until 8:00 p.m.
Contact
519 Church Street, Toronto, ON
OK2BME, KW Counselling Services
OK2BME is a set of supportive services for 2SLGBTQIA+ children, teens, adults and their families in Waterloo Region. The OK2BME program consists of three unique areas including confidential counselling services, (in person or online), OK2BME Youth Groups for individuals 12-18, as well as public education, consulting and training around 2SLGBTQIA+ issues.
Contact
480 Charles Street East, Kitchener, ON
Ontario Aboriginal HIV AIDS Strategy (OAHAS)
The Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy aims to provide culturally respectful and sensitive programs and strategies to respond to the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic among Aboriginal Peoples in Ontario, through promotion, prevention, long-term care, treatment and support initiatives consistent with harm reduction principles.
OAHAS offers the following support services:
SUPPORT SERVICES
Pre & post-test counselling
Health & HIV/AIDS treatment information & referrals
Support relating to HIV/AIDS discrimination issues, including referrals to legal supports
Assistance in accessing food, clothing and shelter
Assistance in obtaining and/or replacing identification
Access to traditional medicines & supports
Advocacy
Assistance to & from appointments
Family support
Grief counselling
Contact
ON
Ontario Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf
Ontario Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf (ORAD) is a not for profit organization serving Deaf, deaf, deafened, hard of hearing and hearing people who are LGBTTIQQ2S* communities in the Province of Ontario. Ontario Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf exists to coordinate social events, and provides educational and social outreach workshops through our LGBTTIQQ2S communities. To coordinate events and activities for the Deaf, deaf, deafened, hard of hearing, and hearing people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, intersex, queer, questioning, two-spirited, bisexual-curious, straight-curious, and queer positive, regardless of race, age, sexual orientation, sex, gender, religion, ethnic background or abilities. To represent and encourage the growth and advancement of the ORAD community within the Province of Ontario as a whole. To provide referral resources to individuals during the coming-out process, and to attempt through educational and social outreach to reduce the promulgation of homophobia, heterosexism, transphobia, biphobia, lesbophobia, audism and any other forms of discrimination and racism.
*Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Intersex, Queer, Questioning, and Two-Spirited.
Contact
Toronto, ON
Open Closet, Regional HIV AIDS Connection
Open Closet is a drop-in social support group for 2SLGBTQ+ youth between 14 and 18 years of age. The group started in early 2002 and has served more than 1,100 youth since its inception. OC is open to youth from each of the six counties RHAC serves – Perth, Huron, Lambton, Elgin, Middlesex and Oxford. The group includes discussions related to coming out, queer identities and histories, survival strategies, safer sex and healthy relationships. We also bring in guest speakers, do arts-based activities, and provide information about sexual health, harm reduction and referrals to relevant community services and supports on an as-needed basis.
Contact
#30-186 King St., London, ON