General Resources
Below you will find a list of resources to hopefully help you on your journey. Click on the logos to visit each organization’s site and learn more.
Crisis Support
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The TRCC/MWAR is a grassroots, women and non-binary people run collective. We work towards a violence-free world by providing anti-oppressive, feminist peer support to survivors of gender-based or sexualized violence. We engage in public education, activism, and provide direct individual and group support to survivors and their supporters.
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Hassle Free Clinic is a community-based clinic providing medical and counselling services in all areas of sexual health. It is the largest anonymous HIV test site in Canada, and is one of the country’s busiest sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinics. The clinic strives to maintain an informal atmosphere, delivering services in a timely, non-bureaucratic manner. A fundamental principle of service delivery is a non-judgmental, supportive attitude to the treatment of sexual health concerns.
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The Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Care Centre (SA/DVCC) is a comprehensive service that assists women, men, and trans people, over the age of 14, who are victims/survivors of sexual assault and domestic/intimate partner violence. For sexual assault pertaining to children or youth under 14, please contact the Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) program at 416-813-6275
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Stella’s Place provides comprehensive mental health services for 16 to 29 year olds. We provide our services in a positive, peer engaging, non-residential community setting.
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Are you or someone you know experiencing violence? There is help. Learn about the resources available to you, including helplines and shelters.
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Trans Lifeline’s Hotline is a peer support phone service run by trans people for our trans and questioning peers. Call us if you need someone trans to talk to, even if you’re not in a crisis or if you’re not sure you’re trans.
Healing Support
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SEEDS Yoga was born out of listening the needs of survivors around movement based practices, it took about 2 years before I solidified the program. It took two years becuase I wanted to learn the skills of working with different bodies and getting the proper training, which I acquired through Yoga For All Training with Dianne Bondy and Amber Karnes & Transcending Sexual Violence through Yoga with Zabie Yamaski.
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Yoga for Black for Black Grief is a healing space for folks directly impacted by anti-black racism-- a space of community healing, connection and release.
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These programs provide an avenue for marginalized communities to exercise self empowerment and gain access to healthy organic foods.
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The Black Health Alliance is a community-led registered charity working to improve the health and well-being of Black communities in Canada.
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Brown Girls Yoga offers yoga classes to self-identified people of colour, across levels, promoting body positive consciousness with an emphasis on love. We cover a variety of yoga styles such as Hatha, which focuses on proper alignment, breath connection and mindfulness. As well as Vinyasa, (known as a flow class), that incorporates a series of poses synchronizing the breath (inhaling and exhaling), with the movement of postures.
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Provide emergency food support to individuals and families within the African, Caribbean, Black community in Toronto who have been affected by COVID-19.
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Provide emergency food support to individuals and families within the African, Caribbean, Black community in Toronto who have been affected by COVID-19.
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Provides equitable and holistic communities within frameworks of anti-racism, combating anti- blackness and anti-oppression. They recognize the urgent need for mental health support services and services for those who are 2SLGBTQ+ and who identify as QTBIPOC (Queer & Trans Black, Indigenous, and Person of Colour).
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Rainbow Health Ontario’s Service Provider Directory is designed to help you find health and social service providers who have expressed a commitment to providing competent and welcoming care to 2SLGBTQ people in Ontario.
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Black CAP provides settlement supports to people living with HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ newcomers who require specialized supports.
Community Support
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Kind Space is committed to providing Ottawa – located on unceded Algonquin territory, accessible resources, events, social, and educational programming to celebrate and support people of all sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.
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The 519 offers a range of programs and services for 2SLGBTQ+ communities in Toronto, including trans-specific, newcomer, and older 2SLGBTQ+ adult programming.
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Black Women in Motion is a Toronto-based, youth-led organization that empowers and supports the advancement of black women, gender-non-conforming and non-binary survivors of gender-based violence. We work within an anti-racist, intersectional feminist, trauma-informed and survivor-centred framework to create culturally-relevant resources, healing spaces, educational and economic opportunities for survivors.
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Maggie's is an organization run for and by sex workers. We are founded on the belief that in order to improve our circumstances, sex workers must control our own lives and destinies.
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Planned Parenthood Toronto’s Nonbinary BIPOC Drop-in (NBD) is a bi-weekly virtual hang out space for youth (13-29) who are nonbinary, gender nonconforming, and/or gender diverse and Black, Indigenous, and/or people of colour.
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The TKBA was founded in 2010 in Toronto, Ontario by Legendary Twysted Miyake-Mugler, and Legendary Motha Vixen as a space to nurture the needs of Black and other racialized LGBTQIA+ youth facing various barriers and trauma.
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Chat with youthline at youthline.ca or Text 647-694-4275 to get confidential and non-judgemental peer support. You can get in touch with a peer support volunteer from Sunday to Friday, 4:00PM to 9:30 PM
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The largest Pride Toronto event that represents African, Black and Caribbean 2SLGBTQ+ community members.
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Salaam Canada is a national volunteer-run organization dedicated to creating and cultivating safe and supportive spaces for LGBTQ Muslims.
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Rainbow Railroad is a global not- for-profit organization that helps at-risk LGBTQI+ people get to safety worldwide.
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AFFIRM is an affirmative Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) based group designed to help LGBTQ+ youth and adults manage stress. As an evidence-based intervention, AFFIRM supports mental and sexual health, enhances coping skills and validates strengths of its participants.
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Families in TRANSition (FIT) is a 10-week closed group for parents / caregivers of 2-Spirit, trans, non-binary, gender- 100 Project questioning youth (ages 13-24) who have recently learned of their child’s gender identity.
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Not for profit initiative supporting the LGBTQ+ community and allies.
Funding Support
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We are raising funds for Black Women in Motion's Love Offering Community Emergency Relief Fund. The Love Offering Fund provides support for Black Womxn in the City of Toronto and Greater Toronto Areas, who are experiencing food and income insecurity as a result of COVID-19.
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Maggie's Toronto Sex Workers Action Project is Canada's oldest by and for sex workers' rights organization. We're launching the final phase of our COVID-19 emergency support fund for sex workers in Toronto & the GTA. These are funds dedicated to sex workers facing financial hardship due to COVID-19 and are left out of government supports or emergency aid.
Maggie's has decided that the final phase of our COVID-19 Sex Worker Emergency Support efforts will specifically focus on Black-identifying sex workers as recipients of the fund.
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BCCF recognizes the enormous impact that COVID-19 has on our community. We are calling on all levels of government to provide adequate resources to families, to cover for childcare, lost wages, any financial ramifications, and adequate support for people facing homelessness and/or food insecurity. We started a campaign for emergency food boxes, and had such high-demand in our community and in Toronto. Thousands of applications and thousands of emergency food boxes have been, and continue to be delivered to those in need. We are grateful to all those who have supported financially and as volunteers.
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Funding and investment opportunities for Black-led and Black-focused grassroots, non-profit and charitable organizations.
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Delivers sustainable and needs- informed capital streams, managed by Black people for the benefit of Black communities, with a goal to disrupt ineffective and disempowering contemporary funding practices.
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SBCCI was created to help increase the capacity of grassroots and not-for-profit organizations serving Black communities in Canada.
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At the Federation of African Canadian Economics (FACE), they aim to drive generational wealth powered by sustainable economic resources, capacity and strategic partnerships.
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Program for Black entrepreneurs age 18-39; provides startup loan financing and up to two years of mentorship, plus access to resources and networking opportunities with fellow entrepreneurs across Canada.