Youth
Youth
This directory is designed to help you find resources on Youth in Windsor-Essex. These listings were compiled by submissions from the community along with organizations that have supported the LGBTQ2S+ community in Windsor-Essex. If you feel there is an organization or business that should be listed, please submit the information on our submission form.
Resource Links
A guide to starting and supporting a GSA (University of Western Ontario)
Canadian Trans and Non-Binary Youth Health (Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre)
Coming Out (PEVnet)
Equity and Inclusive Education Resource Kit For Ontario High Schools (Egale Canada)
Guide to Coming Out (Humber College)
LGBTQ Youth Suicide (Rainbow Health Ontario)
So you wanna start a GSA (Vancouver Coastal Health)l)
Local Resource connections
INSIDE OUT YOUTH GROUP
33 Princess Street, Suite 450
Leamington, Ontario, N8H 5C5
Phone: 519-973-0222
An LGBTQ+ Youth group for youth 11-25. Every week looks different than the last. From board games, discussions, “field trips”, movie nights and arts and crafts. This group is located in Leamington.
EMBRACE YOUTH GROUP
320 Richmond Street, Unit #400
Amherstburg, Ontario, N9V 1H4
Phone: 519-736-6811
The House Youth Centre invites you to join us for Embrace at the House Youth Centre. This peer facilitated program is for individuals 14-21 years old and offers a positive space for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer and marginalized youth and their allies. Embrace will foster a supportive community through unique discussions and creative activities, to help develop relationships and resilience.
KIDS HELP PHONE
1-800-668-6868
Depression. Self-care. Anxiety. Relationships. Thoughts of suicide. Sometimes, we may want help with something on our mind, but we’re not sure how to get started. And if we’re dealing with an issue we find hard to talk about, like a crisis, it can be tough to say it out loud. With Crisis Text Line powered by Kids Help Phone, you can chat with a trained, volunteer crisis responder for support any time, about anything, via text message. Our texting service is free and available across Canada 24/7. You don’t need a data plan, Internet connection or an app to use it. Your texting conversation with a crisis responder is confidential.
LGBT NATIONAL YOUTH TALKINE
Phone: 1-8-246-7743
We provide a safe space that is anonymous and confidential where young callers can speak on many different issues and concerns including, but limited to, coming out issues, gender and/or sexuality identities, relationship concerns, bullying, isolation, anxiety at school, family issues, HIV/AIDS concerns, safer sex information, suicide, and much more.
LGBT YOUTHLINE
Phone: 1-800-268-9688
The Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Youth Line exists to provide service for youth, by youth that affirms the experiences and aspirations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, 2-spirited, queer and questioning youth in Ontario. Working within an anti-oppression and anti-racist framework, we provide leadership opportunities, outreach, confidential peer support and referrals by telephone, texting and online. Get in touch with a peer support volunteer from Sunday to Friday, 4:00PM to 9:30 PM.
OK2BME COUNSELLING
Family Services Windsor-Essex
1770 Langlois Avenue
Windsor, Ontario, N8X 4M5
Phone: 1-888-933-1831
Free counselling to youth ages 12 -29 who identify as 2SLGBTQIA+. Sessions are available in-person, by phone, and secure online video. Counselling can help anyone struggling with depression, anxiety, relationships, addictions, sexuality, their gender identity, gender expression and overall wellness. Family Services Windsor-Essex is proud to offer a safer space for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community to meet their mental health needs.
PRISM SPACE
1361 Ouelette Avenue
Windsor, Ontario, N8X 1J6
Phone: 519-973-0222
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QLINK YOUTH DROP IN
2109 Ottawa Street, Unit #216
Windsor, Ontario, N8Y 1R8
Phone: 226-348-3378
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RUN FOR ROCKY
1280 Woodmont Crescent
LaSalle, Ontario, N9J 3H9
Phone: 519-978-0856
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TRANS LIFELINE
1-877-330-6366
Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.
TRANS WELLNESS ONTARIO
1435 Tecumseh Road East
Windsor, Ontario, N8W 1C2
Phone: 226-674-4745
The mission of Trans Wellness Ontario is to enhance and sustain the health and wellness of Transgender, Genderqueer, Two-Spirit, Non-Binary, Queer and Questioning communities and their families.
WINDSOR-ESSEX PRIDE FEST
2109 Ottawa Street, Unit #216
Windsor, Ontario, N8Y 1R8
Phone: 226-348-3378
Windsor-Essex Pride Fest strives to strengthen the sense of community and contribute to the vibrancy, health and overall well-being of LGBTQ2S+ persons in WindsorEssex. Raising awareness of ongoing issues facing the LGBTQ2S+ community including youth suicide, discrimination & bullying. Windsor-Essex Pride Fest as an organization is more than just a festival, it empowers individuals to reach out to each other and facilitates opportunities for connection and belonging through age-specific activities or initiatives, peer-facilitated groups and special events and will address social isolation and create a social environment that is more accommodating, resilient and connected to the broader LGBTQ2S+ community in Windsor-Essex.
WINDSOR PRIDE COMMUNITY
1770 Langlois Avenue
Windsor, Ontario, N8X 4M5
Phone: 519-946-4740
We support our committees who, among other things: work to create educational opportunities for the community, including diversity training; work with the local school boards and the Gay-Straight Alliances in schools; work with and support other community organizations, and; host seniors’ programs & activities.
WINDSOR YOUTH CENTRE
1247 Wyandotte Street East
Windsor, Ontario, N9A 3K6
Phone: 226-674-0006
The Windsor Youth Centre (WYC) is a surrogate living room to over one hundred and fifty youth. Where else is there to go? The youth always answer, “Nowhere.” When it opened in October 2011, the WYC was the only drop-in centre for homeless and at-risk youth in Windsor-Essex . It still is.
