Out Jasper LGBTQA Society

Published purpose

Through this 7-month project, Out Jasper will develop community-informed solutions to key barriers and gaps to address the rural experiences of the LGBTQ2 communities in the West Yellowhead Region of Alberta. This will be achieved in partnership with Options HIV West Yellowhead by conducting focus groups in Jasper, Hinton, Edson and Whitecourt in Alberta to identify unique issues facing each town that will form a LGBTQ2 advisory committee to explore and develop practical solutions and guide our project, decreasing barriers for the LGBTQ2 community of each rural town through education, building community through creating alliance groups and implementing LGBTQ2 focused events and improving access to services for all through intersectional analysis, and increasing local visibility and awareness. They will also facilitate advisory committee meetings and work with committee members to implement proposed solutions to the rural LGBTQ2 communities and will develop and coordinate Safe Space training in collaboration with local LGBTQ2 members and will offer training to local businesses and agencies in order to facilitate a welcomeness towards diversity at the community level.