TransCare+

Published purpose

Through this 14-month project, TransCare+ will develop community-informed initiatives to overcome key issues facing 2SLGBTQ+ communities, with a focus on Indigenous, 2SLGBTQ+ communities, people of colour, disabled folks, people living in a northern, remote, or rural area in Kingston and southern/western Ontario, Thunder Bay and northwestern Ontario, Sudbury and northeastern Ontario, and rural eastern Ontario. This will be achieved by 1) establishing project governance, 2) conducting a comprehensive environmental and resource scan, 3) developing an interactive e-learning platform, 4) engaging rurally located queer and gender diverse people in care navigation, 5) conducting data collection, monitoring, and evaluation of tools, and 6) engaging community in ongoing education and knowledge-sharing. This project will engage with the following community collectives/organizations 1) Rural Ontario Community of Queer Youth (ROCQY), 2) Rainbow Collective of Thunder-Bay (RCTB), 3) TG Innerselves (TGI), and 4) Rural, POC, and Queer (RB&Q) to be part of the steering committee for this project along with representation from TransCare+. By the end of this project, TransCare+ will have supported a community-informed project to address key issues facing 2SLGBTQ+ communities and advance equality for 2SLGBTQ+ people, with a focus on Indigenous, 2SLGBTQ+ communities, people of colour, disabled folks, people living in a northern, remote, or rural area.