Canada’s leading organization for 2SLGBTQI people and issues. Their mission is to improve and save lives through research, education, awareness, and advocacy. Their website has many helpful tools for allies, research studies, and advocacy campaigns to support. They also offer free webinars.
An American-based national network of educators, students, and schools that provide research and resources to cultivate a safe and supportive environment for all students, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. They have many helpful tools for educators and GSAs, and anti-bullying education.
A nonprofit organization with a mission to uplift, empower, and connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth around the globe through inspiring media programming and educational resources. Their online video database contains over 60,000 stories to provide hope and encouragement to young LGBTQ+ people.
A national charitable organization, founded by parents who wished to help themselves and their family members understand and accept their LGBTQ2S children. Their mission is to support, educate and provide resources to anyone with questions or concerns, and to offer local emotional peer-to-peer family support.
Calgary based organization connecting trans and gender diverse youth, adults and families with comprehensive and low barrier access to the support they need and deserve including: community, mental health, medical services and educational opportunities. They offer free weekly virtual drop-in support groups for any trans and gender diverse youth and families in Alberta.
Email: info@skippingstone.ca
Instagram: @skippingstoneca
Famliies in Transition (FIT) offers support for trans and gender diverse young people and their parents and caregivers. They have a guidebook for Caregivers and Parents to help build knowledge and skills to support their children who are exploring their gender or coming out as trans.
SOGI123 has created two complementary resources to help educators in Alberta navigate what has and has not changed with the introduction of the Education Amendment Act, 2024.
A Toronto-based nonprofit organization committed to the health, happiness and full participation of the LGBTQ2S communities. Their website contains many helpful and educational resources and virtual programming.
An American nonprofit organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning youth. Crisis line only available in the USA, but contains many resources and research online.
An organization dedicated to Two-Spirit and Indigenous youth mental health support. Includes great resources such as a Two-Spirit video dictionary.
SOGI stands for sexual orientation and gender identity. Since we all have a sexual orientation and gender identity, it includes all of us. SOGI-inclusive education is about students having conversations about the SOGI diversity in society and the importance of treating everyone with dignity and respect.
SOGI 1 2 3 lesson plans are an optional resource for educators. They align with your provincial curriculum and are meant to be customized by educators as they desire.
Law has often been used as a tool of oppression. The Queer Justice Project aims shift the balance and build capacity in the queer community. Resilience and strength is built through an intersectional, anti-colonial and anti-ableist approach to justice and legal education.
Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation's Transgender Justice Initiative leads economic empowerment programs, capacity-building initiatives, community engagement efforts, and public safety education campaigns that combat the discrimination faced by transgender people.
Updated and monitored regularly by the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre (“ACLRC”), this hub provides links to information and resources, in Alberta, for LGBTQ+ people and allies. The website is focused on human rights and services for youth and young adults.
Pronouns.org contains a wealth of resources all about personal pronouns and best practices for inclusive language.
PolicyWise is an Edmonton-based organization that offers a virtual database called Resources for Practice. Their database offers capacity building resources for organizations that serve the well-being of children, youth, families, and communities. Their database contains resources on 2SLGBTIQIA+ topics, mental health, equitable employment, children & youth wellbeing, data and organizational capacity, and crisis response and recovery.
We Are Allies is an educational and community-building platform that was created to help adults learn how to support and care for the trans, non-binary and Two Spirit youth in their lives, and to provide accurate information around gender-affirming care.
CT Survivors Connect is a peer support and services organization dedicated to survivors of conversion therapy and the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. They are a non-profit organization based out of Ontario, but they offer virtual support groups for survivors across Canada, and educational resources around recognizing and preventing conversion therapy.
The Conversion Therapy Survivor Network is a nonprofit, non-therapeutic, organization formed by survivors of conversion therapy, united to support others in their journey of healing. They offer a weekly virtual support meeting as well as educational resources to further awareness about the prevention of conversion therapy and support for survivors.
The Welcome Centre is operated by the Multicultural Association of Wood Buffalo and is located in the Syncrude Sports and Wellness Centre at Keyano College. This is a space for any newcomers to our region to help get settled in the community and get connected with programs, services, and supports to help meet their needs.
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