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JP GSA
JP GSA
Jasper Place's GSA type student group.
Meets on Tuesdays after school
Brite Line
Brite Line
A support line for the 2sLGBTQT+ community in Alberta
Brite Line is Edmonton’s first 24/7 mental health and wellness helpline dedicated to supporting people in Edmonton’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
Created by members of the community for the community, Brite Line is a safe place to call to connect with hope, courage, support, understanding and the freedom to be who you are.
Phone Number: 1-844-702-7483
Website Link: https://www.briteline.ca/
Pride Centre of Edmonton
Pride Centre of Edmonton
Provides free drop-in counselling, queer and trans youth groups and supports, family support and community resource information. A variety of in-person and remote supports are available.
QueerOUT is The Pride Centre’s weekly online meeting space for queer, trans, non-binary and gender diverse youth to engage in fun activities, make friends, and find support.
It is currently occurring online on Wednesdays from 5 pm to 8 pm.
Website: https://pridecentreofedmonton.ca/
The Centre
The Centre
LGBTQ+ Health and Wellness Centre
They exist to serve the gender-diverse communities of Edmonton and Northern Alberta through every step of their journey. They also offer a number of services for other members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.
Services include; family medicine, psychiatry, psychology, endocrinology, nursing support, etc.
Great place to call to receive direction/referrals.
Website: www.wellnesscentreab.ca
FAMILY RESILIENCE PROJECT
Through a partnership with the LGBTQ Wellness Centre, the Family Resilience Project offers free short-term counselling to sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ) children, youth, and families.
If you are someone you know requires counselling please fill out this contact form (Click Here). Select "Family Resilience Project" for services required. You will be contacted directly within 5 businesses days.
ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES SEXUAL AND GENDER DIVERSITY
AHS strives to create an environment that highly values diversity and welcomes and respects people’s contributions. An environment where everyone, including patients, families, healthcare providers, physicians and volunteers feel safe, healthy and valued. Creating safer and more welcoming healthcare increases the quality of care and experience we offer to everyone. We provide this safer environment by ensuring that how we work together with patients, clients, families and each other is guided by our core values – compassion, accountability, respect, excellence and safety.
FYREFLY (INSTITUTE FOR GENDER & SEXUAL DIVERSITY)
The Fyrefly Institute for Gender and Sexual Diversity (Formerly the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services; iSMSS) is a non-profit organization and research institute housed in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta.
The Fyrefly Institute provides programs and services to support the 2SLGBTQ+ community and its allies. Our work also involves partnerships with various local Edmonton organizations such as the Pride Centre to provide direct services from mental health support to 2SLGBTQ+ education to the community.
THE RAINBOW PAGES
Is a resource guide developed by The Family Centre of Northern Alberta to provide Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer+ ((LGBTQ) youth and the youth-serving community with a consolidated guide of supports available in Edmonton.
IT GETS BETTER CANADA
It Gets Better Canada fulfills its mission to uplift, empower, and connect Two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (2SLGBTQ+) youth across Canada through storytelling and building community. It Gets Better Canada envisions a day when no young person in Canada feels marginalized, isolated, excluded or rejected because of their sexuality or gender identification.
PFLAG CANADA
Helping Canadians with issues of sexual orientation, gender identity & gender expression.
In communities across the country, the Pflag Canada network provides peer support, education and advocacy for a Canada that affirms respects and values all sexualities, genders and gender expressions.
TRANS LIFELINE
Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for our community that’s been divested from police since day one. We’re run by and for trans people.
Trans Lifeline works to create a world where all trans people have the connections, economic security, & care they need and deserve – free of prisons and police.
Phone Number: 877-330-6366
ISMSS (Institute for Sexual Minority Studies & Services)
ISMSS (Institute for Sexual Minority Studies & Services)
The Institute for Sexual Minority Studies & Services (iSMSS) is a non-profit organization and research institute housed in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. iSMSS provides educational programs and services to support the 2SLGBTQ+ community and its allies.
Offers a variety of programs;
A national leadership and wellness camp for 2SLGBTQ+ youth that focuses on their individual needs, socialization, health, and wellness as well as ways to help youth grow into resilience.
A project that grew out of the need to address systemic discrimination and create specialized programming catering to the lived realities of Two-Spirit, and LGBTQ+ Indigenous youth. It focuses on developing and providing leadership workshops designed to combat homophobia and transphobia in K-12 schools.
The CHEW Project’s vision is to provide frontline support, opportunities for health and wellness, and to help find hope for LGBTQ2S+ youth and young adults facing barriers like:
Through a partnership with the LGBTQ Wellness Centre, the Family Resilience Project offers free short-term counselling to sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ) children, youth, and families.
The Alberta GSA Network is a collective of resources specific to Alberta K-12 students, teachers, and school staff. The network is organized by the Provincial GSA Coordinator, a position within the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (iSMSS) at the University of Alberta.
They also offer support for current or future University of Alberta students.
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