Specific services and supports are available for newcomers who identify as LGBTQ. These services can include access to safe spaces, social activities, educational workshops and much more.
An immigration and newcomer program designed for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth who are newcomers to Hamilton.
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Offers cognitive behavioural therapy and stress and coping skills for LGBTQ+ youth. Topics include:
Offers day camps throughout the summer for children ages 4-14. Activities include martial arts, games, and crafts.
Serving the Aboriginal, Faith, LGBTQ, and Newer Immigrant population, plus the wide-ranging diverse demographic of the city of Hamilton. Providing information and awareness in the spirit of fostering and enabling healthy community relations between police and the communities served. The office also works very closely with the Hate Crimes Unit towards the dissemination of information as it relates to education, awareness, and elimination of hate-related activities.
Offers email information and referral services for trans, gender-diverse, and non-binary people in Hamilton. Service specializes in referrals to gender-affirming health care. The coalition is not a medical clinic and does not have medical staff providing direct services.
A cooking and social support program for LGBTQ+ newcomers in Hamilton. Participants share recipes from home and build community while sharing a meal.
Provides rapid, anonymous HIV testing, confidential STI screening (syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea), HPV vaccination (Gardasil 9, available for men 26 years old and younger), and free safer sex supplies.
This program operates in partnership with Hamilton Public Health Services.
Bathhouse Testing Club Hamilton, 401 Main Street West, Hamilton Ontario (rapid, anonymous HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis C testing)
Offers monthly peer support meetings for 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, families, friends, and allies.
Offers care for mental health and addiction issues to young people age 17 to 25 in a safe environment. Clinical mental health care is offered in an early intervention stream, a transition support stream, and from a mobile team. Drop-in counselling is also available. The Centre has staff who are from the LGBTQA+ community and offers psychiatrists with expertise in working with trans youth.
Offers legal services, education, and system navigation to the LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit community in Hamilton. This is a francophone project that has an accompanying English component.
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A weekly check-in program for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth in Hamilton. Speqtrum staff check in with participants once a week to chat, listen, provide support, and offer resources in the community. Check-ins are offered by email, text, or messages on Facebook or Instagram.
Offers free programs for girls, non-binary, and gender-fluid youth, offered both in-person and virtually. Programs are designed to build leadership, self-confidence, resiliency, positive relationships, and teamwork. Includes exercises that promote physical activity, nutrition and healthy eating, personal health, and well-being.