Program Description
In 2022-23, YWCA Hamilton undertook Project Intersect/ACT in partnership with the Hamilton Trans Health Coalition, Compass Community Health, and ABRAR Trauma & Mental Health. This project provided multi-tiered supports to QT-BIPOC folks after experiences of racism and hate. The project connected participants with legal support, advocacy, culturally sensitive referrals, workshops, information and resources, translation support, and strategies for recognizing, documenting, and recovering from racism and hate.
Creating access and establishing a solid centre for QT-BIPOC communities
Empowering participants with knowledge, self-advocacy, and peer-to-peer leadership
Addressing causes and consequences of racism and hate, opening cross-cultural dialogues
Creation of Safer Spaces and QT-BIPOC Support Groups
Engaging participants in podmapping (a transformative justice practice that enables people to form networks of support and collective action plans in response to violence, racism and hate)
Building community care, with the goal of increasing QT-BIPOC capacity for self-advocacy and effective response to incidents of racism and hate
Read our Intersect/ACT Toolkit
Project Intersect/ACT was generously funded by the Province of Ontario.
The project has now concluded.