CMHA Nipissing Regional Branch
CMHA Nipissing Regional Branch
The Canadian Mental Health Association, Nipissing Regional Branch is dedicated to building a community, which accepts people with mental illness and promotes mental health.
A publicly funded charitable organization, we engage in programs and activities designed to promote partnership, cooperation and accountability among all those concerned with mental health: consumers, family, service providers and the community. Several of CMHA Nipissing's programs are funded by the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. We serve the district of Nipissing and the Northeast quadrant of Parry Sound.
The CMHA Nipissing Regional Branch offers a variety of services such as Social Recreation Services, Housing Services, Case Management and Outreach Services, Justice Services and Mental Health Promotion, Information and Education Services for people living with psychiatric disabilities. It also provides mental health information to the community.
CMHA Nipissing believes that all citizens should have timely access to needed mental health services and be free of discrimination. CMHA takes an innovative approach to involve the entire community in the generation of an informed and coordinated repsonse to the mental health needs of the region's population.
By Mail
Canadian Mental Health Association
Nipissing Regional Branch
156 McIntyre Street West
North Bay, ON P1B 2Y6
By Phone
705-474-1299
Toll Free 1-888-474-1299
By Fax
705-474-5325
By Email
[email protected]
Rainbow Health Ontario
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people have many of the same health concerns as anyone else, but cultural differences and the impact of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia mean that these health needs may be experienced quite differently. LGBT people also do not have the same access to health care that many Canadians take for granted, as they often face several barriers when attempting to access health care.
Due in part to negative past experiences, many LGBT people may delay or avoid seeking health care altogether. They may choose to withhold personal information from health care providers as well, because of the fear that disclosure will lead to prejudice and discrimination. In addition, LGBT people have some unique health concerns and may be at increased risk for certain health issues. Most health care providers are not trained on these LGBT health needs and may not be sensitive to the particular health risks or knowledgeable about how to work with LGBT people.
In general, LGBT people end up receiving less quality health care than the population as a whole. A 2008 Statistics Canada study showed that gay men, lesbians and bisexuals were more likely than heterosexuals to report having had an unmet health care need in the past year (Health Reports, Vol.19, No.1, March 2008). Often, this lack of access is compounded by membership in other groups which also face discrimination or other access problems including Aboriginal communities, people with disabilities, racial and ethnic minority groups, newcomers, rural communities and people living in poverty.
We all deserve to be healthy, and being healthy means taking care of our physical, emotional, sexual, psychological and spiritual needs.
The Rainbow Health Ontario website is designed to provide information to help both LGBT people and their health care providers become more aware of LGBT health issues:
• To learn more about specific LGBT health issues affecting the LGBT communities, visit the LGBT Health Issues page.
• To find information about LGBT health resources such as brochures, research reports, training materials and websites from Ontario, Canada and around the world, search the RHO Resource Database.
• To find out about training and education for service providers, visit the Training pages.
• To read about LGBT health research and policy issues, visit the Research & Policy section.
• To get definitions for the different terms used by LGBT communities, check the Glossary.
www.leatherdyke.com
LeatherDyke.com is lesbian owned and run (including the business that houses our server). Our members range in experience from newly experiencing all the exciting aspects of BDSM, to women who have been in the formal scene community for 20+ years and enjoy mentoring others.
Sex workers, transgendered (MTF) women, women of color and/or of diverse spiritualities, different body types and/or economic status, and/or politics, are welcome on this list.
This site is not open to the general public. This is a private space where only members may read, post, put up pics and write personals.
www.leatherdyke.com
www.transdude.com
TransDude.com is an online community for transmen, FTMs, genderqueers, and their allies, ages 13 and up, to discuss issues related to gender and sexuality.
Transmen/FTM - transgender or transsexual people who were assigned female at birth based on genital appearance (or, in cases of intersexuality, were later assigned to the female gender) and who feel that this is not an accurate or complete description of themselves. They have a male gender identity and/or present themselves as men and desire to live in a male gender role.
Genderqueers - A genderqueer person is someone who identifies as a gender other than "man" or "woman," or someone who identifies as neither, both, or some combination thereof. In relation to the gender binary (the view that there are only two genders), genderqueer people generally identify as more "both/and" or "neither/nor," rather than "either/or."
Allies - In the context of diversity politics, an ally has been defined as "a person of one social identity group who stands up in support of members of another group; typically a member of dominant group standing beside member(s) of a group being discriminated against or treated unjustly".
www.lagarou.org
La Garou is a levi/leather club whose main focus is transmasculine people who were born female or intersexed and raised female but whose gender identiy is masculine. It is also for people who are interested in showing support for transmasculine people in the leather community.
La Garou is involved in fostering a greater understanding of transgendered people in general and transmasculine people in particular within the leather and BDSM community, including the spiritual aspects of those communities. The experiences of transpeople can help us to understand ideas that may not always make it across lines of communication between various groups in the leather and BDSM community. With the support and understanding of our allies, both trans and non-trans, we will continue to build bridges and foster growth in the leather and BDSM community
