The Canadian Mental Health Association Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge is Pleased to Announce the Addition of New Trans Peer Outreach Program

For Immediate Release: February 25, 2021

The Canadian Mental Health Association Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge (C.M.H.A. H.K.P.R.) is pleased to announce the addition of a new Trans Peer Outreach program which will launch March 1, 2021.

The addition of the Trans Peer Outreach program comes following the news that as of February 26, 2021, the three year Ontario Trillium Grow-Grant that supported the operation of C.M.H.A. H.K.P.R.’s Gender Journeys Program will end. Beginning March 1, services will be delivered in a newly supported funding model through the Trans Peer Outreach program.

The Trans Peer Outreach Program will provide supports and services for transgender and gender diverse people, to assist them to improve the quality of their lives through the provision of community-based, client centered care that supports positive interdependence. Services are delivered by people with lived experience as a transgender or gender-diverse person, and who also may have experience living with a mental health concern.

The Trans Peer Outreach Program will serve Peterborough and County, Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, and Northumberland.

“We feel privileged to have had the opportunity to deliver education and support services for transgender people, gender diverse individuals, people questioning gender identity and their families, partners and loved ones through the Gender Journeys program. We look forward to continuing to support the community through the new Trans Peer Outreach Program,” says Christine Crough, Manager of Peer Initiatives and Employment Supports with C.M.H.A. H.K.P.R.

For information on the Trans Peer Outreach program, please visit https://cmhahkpr.ca/programs-services/trans-peer-outreach/ or contact our Trans Peer Outreach Workers, Joaquin Santana and Carl Cruise-Baxter, by emailing transpeeroutreach@cmhahkpr.ca.

Requests for Trans Sensitivity Training, previously offered through the Gender Journeys program, can now be forwarded to C.M.H.A. H.K.P.R.’s Health Promotion and Education team. For more information on Trans Sensitivity Training please visit cmhahkpr.ca/trans-sensitivity-training/ or contact Health Promoter Kelley Curtis at kcurtis@cmhahkpr.ca.

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Caitlin McIntosh
Communications and Community Relations Specialist, C.M.H.A. H.K.P.R.
cmcintosh@cmhahkpr.ca
905-706-0511