Minister Soraya Martinez-Ferrada and Minister Pascale St-Onge announce funding for five Quebec 2SLGBTQI+ or...
Summary
Actions to accomplish this goal consist in training and providing mentorship for young Black 2SLGBTQIA+ artists in writing short film scripts. Lastly, a three-year monitoring tool will be developed to track the screenwriting projects progress after the program ends.By the end of the project, the Massimadi Foundation will be better able to overcome challenges faced by 2SLGBTQIA+ communities especially young people who are Black and queer and to reduce discrimination against people of multiple intersecting identities.Through this project, Gay and Grey Montreal will address the need for a coordinated peer support system for the Anglophone 2SLGBTQIA+ community living in Quebec, with an objective to disseminate tools, support, and knowledge on care and rights; to navigate and access informed and inclusive social and health services; and to create safer and inclusive spaces for the diversity found within the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. This will be achieved by establishing a peer support consortium of gay-positive agencies targeting or welcoming 2SLGBTQIA+ Anglophone clients, research and a map of existing 2SLGBTQIA+ Anglo organizations, the promotion of projects through best partnerships for diversity services to the Anglophone population, and strategic steps to ensure broad-based inclusion.By the end of the project, the organization will have proposed an effective model for a peer support system that integrates existing structures and services appropriate to the Anglophone 2SLGBTQIA+ community living in Quebec.Building Community-Based Knowledge and Tools for LGBTQ+ Migrants and Refugees Through Cross-Sectoral CollaborationThrough this project, AGIR : Action lesbienne, gai, bisexuelle, trans et queer (LGBTQ) avec les immigrants et r\xe9fugi\xe9s, will develop community-informed solutions to key barriers and gaps facing LGBTQ2 communities. This will be achieved by the elaboration of a five-year strategic plan, engagement in community-based knowledge activities to adapt a care model to LGBTQ+ migrants and refugees, and the development of multilingual tools for LGBTQ+ migrants and healthcare and social service practitioners.Through this project, the Centre for Gender Advocacy will develop community-informed solutions to key barriers and gaps facing LGBTQ2 communities. More specifically, the project will contribute to advancing equality for 2SLGBTQI+ people by creating an audio program and awareness-raising content to highlight the struggles, stories, advocacy, and solutions of LGBTQ2+ people living outside urban areas and those who are members of the trans, racialized, Indigenous, Two-Spirit, elderly, low-income, and disabled communities.Measures that will be taken to achieve this goal include identifying the needs of 2SLGBTQI+ communities located outside of urban centres and defining a strategy for appropriate content; defining the applicable committee procedures and rules for the various working and monitoring groups under the project; developing the visual identity for the audio program and promoting it; and finally, recording, producing, and broadcasting awareness-raising content.