WAGE Funding Announcement

An Innovative Approach to Health, Wellbeing, and Resource Accessibility

This 14-month WAGE-funded ($388,887) project will develop community-led initiatives to equip rurally-located queer and gender diverse (RLQGD) people with knowledge, tools, and supports that seek to advance their health, wellbeing, and care. The project will create community-informed and accessible knowledge enhancement opportunities by delivering care navigation workshops, visual resource tools, and printed education booklets to rurally-located service providers to distribute. By the project’s conclusion, TransCare+ aims to establish a centralized and publicly accessible resource directory and educational platform to support RLQGD individuals increased and sustained access to knowledge enhancement, care, and community.

Key Objectives:

  1. Map the existing health and wellness services, gaps, and barriers experienced by RLQGD individuals through a community needs assessment and environmental scan.
  2. Develop and implement multi-medium educational tools that are accessible and can be used by RLQGD individuals and communities to help navigate health, wellbeing, and care systems.
  3. Develop and implement community-based tools that will equip RLQGD individuals and communities with resources and knowledge that addresses barriers to advancing their health, wellbeing, and care.
  4. Collaborate with Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and Indigenous LGBTQIA+ communities to develop culturally focused and affirming educational materials and resources.
  5. Create and host a virtual knowledge-sharing summit to equip RLQGD people with knowledge, tools, and support as it pertains to their health, wellbeing, and care.

Project Timeline: 

September-December

Environmental and resource scan

Community needs assessment

Community consultations

April-June

Community consultations

Public facing executive summary of initial findings

Workshop and e-learning course development

Community outreach and engagement activities

June-August

Policy, research, and practice recommendations document

Community outreach and engagement activities

Centralized knowledge hub/website launch

Virtual Health and Wellness Summit

Author: TransCare+

TransCare+ is a community-based organization run by and for queer and gender diverse folx. We strive to centre holistic, community-focused, and anti-colonial understandings of care and wellness in a way that is accessible to queer and gender diverse folx of various lived experiences. To do so, we work with queer and gender diverse communities to identify, develop, and provide services and resources that meet the care needs of queer and gender diverse folx across so-called Canada. TransCare+ operates as a knowledge hub, educational platform/service provider, and care collective.
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