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

Niizhaayek Alliance aims to reduce the stigmas and risks associated with being part of the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community through engaging youth workshops, amplifying youth voices, and in the development of an annual Ontario-wide 2SLGBTQQIA+ youth gathering.

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

Primary Health Care, Gender Affirming Shared Care, System
Navigation and programming for the 2SLGBTQ+ community.

To find out more about programs and services available at NorWest
Community Health Centre, and in the community contact 807-626-7856.

GROUPS

Gender Journeys Adult Group is a free 8-session group for adult
trans-gender and questioning people (18 years and older). This
group explores gender identity and expression and will provide
reliable, up to date information on these topics. The group is
designed to create a space to foster community support and
connection. Pre-register at (807)346-1000 ext. 3214

Gender Journey Alumni: Sundays 12-3pm for those who have
completed the Gender Journey Program.

Transgender Peer Support: Every other Tuesday, 6-8 pm at NorWest.
No age limit.

Visit www.norwestchc.org for more information and to see the
calendar of groups

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.

OK2BME is a set of supportive services for 2SLGBTQIA+ identified children, teens, adults and their families in Waterloo Region. The OK2BME program consists of three unique areas including confidential counselling services, an OK2BME Youth Group for individuals 12-18 as well as public education, consulting and training around 2SLGBTQIA+ issues. (Youth groups are free, and we will work with you so cost will never be a barrier to accessing counselling support.)

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

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.

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.

THIS RESOURCE IS NOT 2SLGBTQ SPECIFIC

No name and no health card. All that is linked to you is your year of birth and a six digit testing number. We are one of 50 anonymous testing services in Ontario, but the only one in London, operating multiple testing sites across the city. To book an appointment call (519) 673-4427 or text JP at 519-709-5903
We will respond to you Monday to Friday within 24 hours.