Maltby provides community-based mental health and autism services to children and youth in Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington (KFL&A).

We provide counselling and resource support for kids, youth and families around any issue, and we have dedicated support for LGBTQ+ folks, including individual or family counselling.

Services available:

*walk-in locations

*virtual and phone sessions

*counselling and therapy

*intensive services

*parent education and capacity building

*translation services for languages other than English or French

Youth 12 and up can access services without guardian consent.

31 Hyperion Court

Kingston, ON K7K 7G3

Phone: 613-546-8535

Email: inquiry@maltbycentre.ca

Website: http://www.maltbycentre.ca

The Regional Warm Line is a peer-run pre-crisis phone line. Peer support workers receive training in line with the mental health commission of Canada's guidelines, but more importantly, they learn to use their own experience to support our callers through whatever challenges or concerns they are facing.

Sudbury, ON

Phone: 705-222-6472

Email: info@nisa.on.ca

Website: http://nisa.on.ca/services/the-regional-warm-line/

Pathways to Education is a community base program that supports youth living in the Rideau Heights and Inner Harbour neighbourhoods of Kingston to graduate from high school and move on to post-secondary education, vocational training or meaningful employment. We offer opportunities to low-income youth to become engaged in their learning and become leaders in their communities.

The program focuses on helping high school youth through tutoring, mentoring, financial support, and advocacy.

The Pathways to Education program offers:

• Academic tutoring sessions in all subjects

• Mentoring activities including field trips, campus tours, YMCA memberships, training and skill-building opportunities

• Financial incentives such as school lunch vouchers and No Frills grocery cards

• Post-secondary scholarships for $500 for each year enrolled in the program

up to $2000 after four years

• Assistance with career exploration and planning post-secondary options for all students

263 Weller Ave.

Kingston, ON K7K 2V4

Phone: 613-507-7107

Email: pathwaystoeducation@kchc.ca

Website: http://www.kchc.ca/pathways-to-education/

Item description equip is a student-run, education-based, LGBTQ+ initiative at Queen's University. Some of our work includes holding weekly discussions on relevant topics/issues, organizing social and political events, and doing outreach work (i.e. educational campaigns). Our physical location in the John Deutsch University Centre (JDUC), room 342, also works as an inclusive space where folks can meet and get resources.

John Deutsch University Centre (JDUC), 342

Kingston, ON K7L 3N6

Phone: 6474561912

Email: equip@ams.queensu.ca

HARS is the coordinator for FUSE, and LGBTQ2S+ Youth group that meets weekly at One Roof, 426 Barrie Street

Kingston, Ontario.

844a Princess Street

Kingston, ON k7l1g5

Phone: 613-545-3698

Email: whai@kingston.net

Website: http://www.hars.ca

Salaam Canada is a volunteer-run national organization dedicated to creating space for people who identify as both Muslim and queer and trans.

Salaam (Toronto Chapter) holds a monthly discussion group at the 519 Church Street Community Centre.

This group has a drop-in model and primarily focuses on discussions related to coming out, sexuality, spirituality, and religion and offers social support to its attendees. Some months, social events are held instead of support group discussions at the 519.

Salaam offers one-on-one peer support to those who contact the group nationally. In-person or online peer support requests can be arranged based on volunteer availability and capacity. Peer support means having supportive conversations, sharing experiences, and learning information about resources with a Salaam volunteer. This is often the first point of contact for many people who later access Salaam’s services

Toronto, ON

Phone: 4169049721

Email: salaamqueercanada@gmail.com

Website: http://www.salaamcanada.info

Weekly night of friends and beer for members of Kingston’s LGBT community and their allies, all identities and orientations welcome.

https://www.facebook.com/kingstonb4q/

Celebrates queer media arts and contributes to community vitality by programming materials that focus on issues of sexuality, race, culture, religion, class, gender, ability, health and age, thereby purposefully drawing together and initiating challenging dialogue among disparate members of the queer communities in Kingston and the surrounding area as well as between the larger Kingston community and the queer community.

http://www.reelout.com/

In 2015, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported that LGBTQ individuals are more than twice as likely to use illicit drugs than straight people. Gay and transgender people (or people who are otherwise in a sexual or gender minority) are more likely to smoke and binge drink alcohol. In the same year as the SAMHSA report, 39.1 percent of LGBTQ+ people reported using illegal drugs.

https://bocarecoverycenter.com/addiction/lgbtq-substance-abuse-guide/

ROCQY is a collective of rural 2SLGBTQ+ youth from across what is currently colonially known as Ontario. Created by and for rural and Northern 2SLGBTQ+ youth ROCQY was founded to address the barriers that rural 2SLBTQ+ youth face in accessing mental health care. Together we work to build leadership skills, foster a sense of community, and address social justice issues. ROCQY meets bi-weekly with virtual synchronous gatherings and will have an in-person gathering annually. ROCQY’s purpose is for Two-Spirit, queer and trans youth to have fun, learn, and grow.

https://www.facebook.com/ROCQY.rural.ontario.community.of.queer.youth

Trans Family Kingston are a diverse group of transgender people, family members, friends and allies in the Kingston Ontario area. They gather at least once a month to share stories and experiences, provide peer support, and assist each other in navigating the various barriers faced by trans people and by their supporters.

https://transfamilykingston.com