Support Near You
This referral database is for in-person and/or location-based services, organizations, and collectives, for 2SLGBTQ+ youth in Ontario.
Find a Support Service Near You
Where are you located?
What kind of service are you looking for?
London InterCommunity Health Centre
The Health Centre offers Trans and Non-Binary Health Services. We also offer services like Anonymous HIV testing and the MyCare HIV treatment program. The Youth Outreach Worker team also serves a diverse population including youth who may identify and 2SLGBTQIA+ and can help connect clients to these programs and others.
There are also system navigation supports, and many different health related programs and groups that you can participate in.
You can contact a Systems Navigator, to help connect you with programs that you are looking for by calling 519-660-0874
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659 Dundas St, London, ON
M’Wikwedong IFC
The project supports Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQQIAP+ folxs though connection and community activities in the Friendship Centre that support overall well-being.
Provides support for anyone that identifies or is questioning as gender/sexually diverse. Can also facilitate family or relationship circles and other activities and events to support community.
Building Gender Diverse Communities
Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer and Indigenous LGBTQQIAP+ community members deserve dedicated supports within their communities. This project recognizes the needs of folxs of diverse gender and sexual identities. We are all part of the circle.
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1045 3rd Ave West, Owen Sound, ON
Maggie’s Toronto Sex Workers Action Project
Maggie’s Toronto Sex Workers Action Project is Canada’s oldest sex worker justice initiative offering wrap-around services, and life-affirming care to current and form sex workers across Toronto and the GTA.
From street outreach and harm reduction services/supports to case management, drop-in programming and community-specific resources for parents, QTBIPOC sex workers and male-identified workers, at the core of our work is an earnest belief that sex workers themselves are best equipped to determine what safety, dignity and community connection means to us.
Our programs are available to all current and former sex workers, and we operate on a self-disclosure/trust-based model. We are always looking for new and creative program/workshop offerings and prioritize working with current/former sex workers to facilitate programming!
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5 minutes from Yonge/Dundas Square in downtown Toronto, Toronto, ON
Maltby Centre LGBTQ+ Services
Maltby provides community-based mental health and autism services to children and youth in Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington (KFL&A).
We provide counselling and resource support for kids, youth and families around any issue and we have dedicated supports for LGBTQ+ folks, including individual or family counselling.
Services available:
*walk in locations
*virtual and phone sessions
*counselling and therapy
*intensive services
*parent education and capacity building
*translation services for languages other than English or French
Youth 12 and up can access services without guardian consent.
Contact
31 Hyperion Court, Kingston, ON
MAX Ottawa
THIS IS A GENDERED SPACE
MAX offers individual, group, and community support and education services for queer men, trans and non-binary people in the Ottawa region. Mental, physical, sexual, community health + harm reduction services and programs.
Contact
400 rue, Cooper St Suite 9004, Ottawa, ON
Men4Men, The AIDS Network
THIS IS A GENDERED SPACE
Men4Men aims to enhance the lives of gay, bisexual, queer and other men who have sex with men by reinforcing self-esteem and personal empowerment through sexual health education and resources. Beginning in 2010, we have provided a number of services in Hamilton, Halton, Brant, Haldimand and Norfolk. Through the delivery of tailored and targeted health promotion we hope to engage the community in person and online in spaces that hold meaning for us as a community. We continue to expand throughout our region. Volunteers are always welcome. Some of our services include:
Men4Men Clinic
The Men4Men Clinic is a partnership with Hamilton Public Health Services that provides free sexual health services to Hamilton’s diverse communities of gay, bisexual, queer and other men who have sex with men, whether they are cis or trans. We run a monthly full-service sexual health clinic at Positive Health Network on the second Wednesday of every month from 5:00pm-8:00pm, and provide rapid anonymous HIV testing in various outreach venues such as bathhouses, bars, campgrounds and special events.
Contact
140 King St. E. Suite 101 (lower level), Hamilton, ON
Miles Nadal JCC
Mission
LGBTQ+ at the J strives to be the heart of Toronto’s LGBTQ+ Jewish community, providing queer Jews opportunities to gather, celebrate and thrive. We aim for the full inclusion and celebration of LGBTQ+ Jews across Jewish communal institutions, in Jewish life, arts and cultural initiatives, and informal and formal education and more.
Vision
LGBTQ+ at the J fosters rich and diverse LGBTQ+ Jewish life in Toronto through dynamic programming – focused on social events, advocacy and education. We aspire to be a resource, safer space and home for all LGBTQ+ Jews across the spectrum of identities and affiliations. We intend to offer social and networking events and to provide opportunities for queer Jews to engage with Jewish holidays and traditions. We will partner with Jewish community organizations – including synagogues, schools and summer camps – to make their spaces and services more inclusive for LGBTQ+ Jews.
Looking to connect more to the community or have questions? Feel free to reach out to Cara Gold, carag@mnjcc.org
Contact
750 Spadina Ave, Toronto, ON
Muskoka Pride Youth Group
A group for LGBTQ+ youth (and Allies) to hang out, chat, play games, enjoy some snacks, and build community. Held in the basement of the Bracebridge United Church.
Contact
46 Dominion Street, Bracebridge, ON
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.
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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