This webinar is presented by the Alzheimer Society of Ontario
Do simple tasks feel overwhelming? Do you feel isolated? Angry? Unexpectedly emotional? You’re not alone. Alongside the physical demands, caregivers often face complex emotions tied to grief and loss. This webinar, hosted with The Alzheimer Society of Ontario, will explore how these feelings manifest and how you can manage them.
This webinar is presented by the Ontario Caregiver Organization in collaboration with Indus Community Services, and The Region of Peel Senior Services Development.
How is caregiving experienced across different cultures? Hear first-hand from a caregiver in the Punjabi community. Hosted in collaboration with Indus Community Services, and The Region of Peel Senior Services Development, this webinar will leave you with deeper understanding of the cultural values and norms that shape caregiving perspectives.
This event is presented by Nalgona Positivity Pride
This presentation examines the Indigenous foundations of harm reduction and shows how current health frameworks often overlook the deep histories that shaped this work. It draws primarily from teachings on Turtle Island while acknowledging that relational care has long existed across many Indigenous and colonized societies. These stories are shared to support reflection about how harm is defined, how care is practiced, and how repair is carried through time.
This webinar is presented by Communities, Alliances, and Networks (CAAN) and the Dr. Peter Centre.
CAAN Communities, Alliances & Networks and Dr. Peter Center are delighted to invite you to another virtual Community of Practice (CoP) Call on Indigenous-led trauma informed Harm Reduction training. This training is part of the national project, The Canoe and is free to attend. The Canoe aims to bring relevant, non-stigmatizing, context specific harm reduction practices for indigenous communities to the national stage.
This call will be held virtually and will focus on Holiday Blues from an Indigenous Perspective.
The facilitator for this session is Elder Susan Powell (Lakota), a mother & grandmother, has been a Holistic Health Educator and Wellness Facilitator for 45 years. She has been invited to offer Medicine Circle workshops and a variety of seminar topics for conferences and diverse communities, including child & youth care workers, educators, social workers, mentoring agencies, Aboriginal Youth Leadership, the Native American Sports Council, and the Justice Institute of British Columbia, as well as on reserve for First Nations communities across Canada.
This community event is presented by Women's Health in Women's Hands CHC (WHIWH CHC)
Please join us for this year’s World AIDS Day event, hosted in partnership with Women’s College Hospital, Africans in Partnership Against AIDS, and CANFAR, and proudly sponsored by GILEAD.
It’s going to be a powerful day of learning, storytelling, creativity, and collective action as we honour people living—and those who have lived—with HIV, engage in collective action to end HIV, and celebrate our collective efforts.
We’re bringing the full community experience, including:
Video screening
Educational sessions
Interactive dialogue
Art & poetry
Fun prizes
Food, refreshments, TTC PRESTO tickets, and childcare reimbursement will be provided.
For more information, please contact Rose Njeri at 647-355-9110 or rose@whiwh.com
This webinar is presented by the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Canada
Across Canada, people with lived experience are leading transformative work in integrated care. From national networks to research partnerships, this leadership is creating the infrastructure needed for genuine co-design and shared decision-making. Healthcare systems increasingly recognize the importance of involving people with lived experience, and many are doing more of this work than ever before. What's emerging now is the shift from involvement to authentic partnership where power is genuinely shared.
Moving from consultation to authentic partnership requires systems to change how they operate, not just how they engage. It means confronting power dynamics, investing time in building trust and relationships, and creating conditions where people can participate fully as co-leaders, not just advisors.
This session brings together people with lived experience, researchers, and system leaders to explore what authentic partnership looks like in practice, what it takes to sustain it, and how to build on the transformative leadership already happening across the country. Join us to learn and unlearn together, connecting with others working toward integrated care that's genuinely shaped by the people it serves.
This event is presented by Rainbow Health Ontario.
We are proud to announce this vital conversation, held in honour of Trans Day of Remembrance. Join us for a discussion on navigating racism and transphobia within health care, intended for all healthcare and social service workers and students in these fields.
Featuring Dr. Jordan Goodridge and Ronnie Ali, RP, this conversation will explore how systemic racism and transphobia intersect in clinical settings, creating gaps in care, fostering medical mistrust and leading to disproportionately poorer health outcomes for trans and gender-diverse people of colour. We will invite participants to reflect on their own practices, examine how established clinical norms can contribute to inequity and explore actionable strategies to unlearn these harmful patterns and move toward a more equitable and affirming health-care system for all.
Les soins d’affirmation de genre doivent être accessibles à tous. Sans ces soins, des vies sont en danger.
Chaque personne, quel que soit son âge, a droit à des soins d’affirmation de genre. Cependant, au Canada, ce droit est actuellement menacé pour certaines personnes, comme les jeunes et la population 2SLGBTQ+, ce qui met aussi leur santé en péril.
Chaque individu a le droit de recevoir des soins de santé qui tiennent compte de sa culture et qui sont centrés sur la personne. Ce droit aux soins permet de sauver des vies et d’aider les personnes qui font face à des obstacles à survivre et à s’épanouir. Ce droit inclut l’accès à des soins d’affirmation de genre, y compris le soutien à la transition, pour les personnes qui s’identifient comme transgenres. Le Canada présente des taux élevés d’intimidation (77%) chez les jeunes de la diversité sexuelle et de genre, et les soins d’affirmation de genre sont nécessaires pour remédier aux problèmes de santé mentale qui touche cette population. Les taux élevés d’intimidation et la santé mentale plus précaire contribuent également à un taux d’idées suicidaires cinq fois plus élevé chez les jeunes transgenres que chez leurs pairs cisgenres; leur taux de tentatives de suicide est 7,6 fois plus élevé (Suicidality among sexual minority and transgender adolescents: a nationally representative population-based study of youth in Canada | CMAJ).
Dans ce contexte, il est décourageant de constater que deux provinces canadiennes, l’Alberta et la Colombie-Britannique, ont adopté des mesures pour restreindre les soins d’affirmation de genre destinés à leurs jeunes. Ces changements politiques incluent notamment le refus de prescrire des inhibiteurs de puberté. Ces médicaments essentiels retardent l’apparition des changements hormonaux, offrant ainsi aux jeunes transgenres et en questionnement de genre plus de temps pour réfléchir et examiner leurs options avant de prendre des décisions irréversibles concernant leur corps. Il en revient aux médecins ou au personnel infirmier praticien de décider du traitement approprié en concertation avec leur patient. D’autres formes de soutien à la transition sont menacées, comme le droit des jeunes de changer de nom ou de pronoms à l’école. En interdisant l’accès à ces services, on augmente les risques pour les jeunes, qui sont souvent déjà en situation de grande vulnérabilité.
Une préoccupation majeure dans le débat actuel est le déni du soutien à la transition comme élément important d’un éventail plus large de soins centrés sur la personne et d’affirmation de genre. D’autres formes de soins d’affirmation de genre, adaptées à d’autres groupes démographiques, sont largement disponibles et généralement acceptées, sans susciter de controverse. Des exemples en sont l’augmentation ou la réduction mammaire, l’hormonothérapie substitutive pendant la préménopause et la ménopause, ou encore les interventions pour les personnes souffrant de perte de cheveux, de baisse de libido ou de dysfonctionnement sexuel. Ces interventions ne suscitent pas le même débat public, puisqu’elles ne sont pas associées à la stigmatisation, à la désinformation, à la peur ni à la haine, contrairement aux soins pour les personnes transgenres.
Nous applaudissons les médecins et les dirigeants du système de santé canadien qui ont sonné l’alarme concernant les politiques qui limitent l’accès aux décisions en matière de soins de santé prises par les médecins traitants ou le personnel infirmier praticien et leur patient ou client. Ils ont clairement exprimé leur appui à des soins de transition abordables, sécuritaires et immédiats, en particulier pour les jeunes et les membres de la communauté 2SLGBTQ+. Ces professionnels de la santé qualifiés prennent très au sérieux leur obligation de diligence envers les jeunes du Canada, et ils s’opposent fermement et solidairement aux attaques visant les soins d’affirmation de genre offerts aux jeunes transgenres. En 2024, l’Association médicale canadienne a déclaré son opposition aux politiques qui restreindraient l’accès aux soins d’affirmation de genre. De son côté, l’Ontario Medical Association a demandé que ces soins soient considérés comme prioritaires, les qualifiant de « vitaux , et Santé Ontario a publié des normes de qualité spécifiques aux soins d’affirmation de genre pour les personnes de diverses identités de genre.
Dans l’ensemble de l’Ontario, des initiatives locales mettent ces déclarations audacieuses en pratique. En voici quatre exemples :
Malgré ces excellents exemples, cela ne suffit pas. En Ontario, les délais d’attente pour les soins d’affirmation de genre sont encore très longs, et l’opposition à ces soins y est toujours présente. Il est crucial de ne pas laisser la désinformation, la peur et la stigmatisation dominer le discours sur les soins primaires fondés sur des preuves pour les jeunes et la communauté 2SLGBTQ+, en particulier pour les personnes transgenres. Ceux qui prétendent se mobiliser « pour les enfants » cherchent en réalité à mettre en place des réformes politiques qui, comme nous le savons, et comme le montrent les études, seront préjudiciables aux enfants et aux jeunes. Chaque individu devrait déterminer ses propres besoins en matière de soins de santé en collaboration avec son médecin ou son infirmier praticien ou son infirmière praticienne.
À l’occasion de la Journée du souvenir trans, qui aura lieu le 20 novembre, et des 16 jours d’activisme contre la violence basée sur le genre qui suivront, il est important de se souvenir et de rappeler à tout le monde, y compris aux décideurs politiques, que :
Les soins destinés aux personnes transgenres sont des soins d’affirmation de genre, et ces soins d’affirmation de genre sont des soins primaires. Chaque personne a droit à ces soins, et leur refus met en péril des vies, y compris celles des enfants.
Everyone has the right to gender affirming care, at any age. But for some people in Canada, including youth and 2SLGBTQ+ populations, that right is at risk right now, and so people’s health is at risk as well.
Everyone is entitled to culturally safe, person-centred care when receiving health care. This saves lives and helps people who face barriers to survive and thrive. This includes access to gender-affirming care, including transition support, for people who identify as transgender. Canada has high rates of bullying (77%) among sexually and gender diverse youth, and gender affirming care is essential to address the existing poorer mental health among this population. High rates of bullying and poorer mental health also contribute to a rate of suicidal ideation in transgender youth that is five times higher than cisgender peers; their rate of suicide attempts are 7.6 times greater (Suicidality among sexual minority and transgender adolescents: a nationally representative population-based study of youth in Canada | CMAJ)
In light of this, it is dispiriting to see two Canadian provinces – Alberta and British Columbia – moving to restrict gender affirming care for their youth. The policy changes of these two governments include denying people access to puberty blockers. These essential medicines delay the onset of hormonal changes and give trans and gender-questioning young people more time to consider and explore their options before they make permanent decisions about their bodies. It must be up to a physician or nurse practitioner and their patient to determine the appropriate course of treatment. Other forms of transition support under threat include the right of a young person to change their name or pronouns at school. Denying access to any of these forms of care furthers the risks faced by young people who are often already vulnerable.
The missing piece of so much of the current debate is that transition support is one part of the spectrum of broader, gender-affirming, person-centred care. There are other kinds of gender-affirming care, for other populations, that are commonplace and accepted without debate. These include breast augmentation or reductions, hormone replacement therapy during perimenopause and menopause, or interventions for people experiencing hair loss, low libido, or sexual dysfunction. These interventions are not subject to the same public debate because, unlike trans care, they are not tied to stigma, misinformation, or fear and hatred.
We commend Canada’s doctors and health system leaders who have raised the alarm about policies that restrict access to health care decisions that are between a primary care physician or nurse practitioner and their patient/client, and who have taken a strong stand in support of ensuring that gender-affirming care is accessible, safe and timely, particularly for youth and 2SLGBTQ+ people. These trained health professionals take very seriously their duty to care for Canada’s children and youth, and they are standing together in forceful opposition to attacks on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. In 2024, the Canadian Medical Association declared their opposition to policies that would restrict access to gender-affirming care; the Ontario Medical Association called for gender-affirming care to be prioritized, calling it “lifesaving;” and Ontario Health released quality standards specifically for Gender-Affirming Care for Gender-Diverse People.
Across Ontario, local initiatives are putting these bold statements into action. Here are just four examples:
Despite these excellent examples, it is not enough. In Ontario there continues to be long wait times for gender affirming care and the opposition to this care is prolific. We cannot allow misinformation, fear and stigma to drive the debate around evidence-based primary care for youth and 2SLGBTQ+ people, especially transgender people. Those who claim to rally “for kids” are in fact advocating for policy changes that we know – and evidence shows – will harm children and youth. Every person’s health care needs are best decided between them and their physician or nurse practitioner.
As we move towards another Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, and followed by the 16 Days of Action Against Gender-based Violence, let’s remember, and remind people and policymakers alike:
Trans care is gender-affirming care. And gender-affirming care is primary care. Everyone has the right to this care, and blocking access to it puts lives, including the lives of children, at risk.
This community of practice and launch webinar are hosted by Ontario Health.
Ontario Health recently released the new Menopause: Care for Women and Gender-Diverse People quality standard and is launching the Menopause Quality Standard Community of Practice (CoP) on November 18. Clinicians and health care teams are invited to register for the CoP’s first learning session, featuring Dr. Ardelle Piper, on Tuesday, November 18, from 12 p.m. to 1p.m. ET. This 1-credit-per-hour Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Ontario Chapter for up to 1.0 Mainpro+Ⓡ credits.
At this accredited learning session, attendees will:
By registering through the link provided above, you will be enrolled in the complete learning series and receive timely notifications regarding future sessions.