LGBTQIA+ Specific Supports
1) LGBT Youthline: email and text-based support
Peer Support Chat Help Line - Sunday-Friday 4-9:30PM EST
Text: 647-694-4275
Live Chat online with a peer volunteer: www.youthlina.ca
Email: askus@youthline.ca
2) ARCH Guelph Hosts their Trans and Non-Binary Peer Community Drop-In Tuesdays from 2-4pm
***Transgender, Trans, and Non-Binary Peer Community Chat Sessions***
Join us EVERY Tuesday for a collective chat from 2:00 - 4:00PM
We have trained trans and non-binary peer workers here to support other folks in the community. They've been trained in active listening, motivational interviewing, as well as resource navigation and warm referrals. It's a great place for people in our communities to pop in for community based peer support, to be heard by people with lived experience, and get some help finding resources, info, or other support that they might need. Anyone can come by (trans people, their family members, partners, people looking to learn more) and connect with trans people who live and work in our community!
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Trans Community Chat Link Meeting ID: 646 849 825
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/646849825
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Questions? Queeries? Concerns?
Email Jasper at education@archguelph.ca
3) Article on isolation and quarantine for people who are not living in an LGBTQIA-affirming environment:
https://www.them.us/story/9-strategies-for-quarantining-in-a-non-lgbtq-accepting-environment
4) What’s Up Walk-In (The Griffin Centre Toronto) hosts “Q.T. Mondays” mental health drop-in with 2SLGBTQIA+ counsellors and has moved to telephone service
http://www.griffincentre.org/
1 866 585 6486 – general phone number
416 222 4380 – phone number for Griffin Centre walk-in or walk-in@griffincentre.org or reachOUT@griffincentre.org
5) Free Counselling for LGBTQ2S+ Youth
https://www.thegetrealmovement.com/
The Get Real Movement in partnership with United Way and Red Cross providing free phone/virtual counselling sessions with a trans-identified social worker
Email SocialWork@TheGetRealMovement.com