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July 28, 2010
The SRS and Trans Health Policy Group has been consulting with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) regarding access to health care for trans* people in Ontario. The group consists of senior managers at Sherbourne Health Centre (SHC), the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and leaders/clinicians from Toronto’s trans communities. They have worked together for over 18 months to examine healthcare access and equity issues affecting trans people and to offer recommendations to Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. The Ministry has committed to bringing forward several initiatives to improve access to needed services for trans people in Ontario and to build greater capacity among health care providers to serve this population. More details will be available in the near future, including funding associated with these initiatives.
* Trans refers to people who self identify as transsexual, transgender, two-spirit, gender queer etc.
July 13, 2010
Request for applications for membership on
Provincial Trans Health Project Advisory Committee
We are seeking trans people from across Ontario to be members of the Provincial Trans Health Project Advisory Committee.
Sherbourne Health Centre, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, The Trans Health Lobby Group of the Rainbow Health Network, the Trans PULSE research study and a number of trans community activists have been working with the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care over the last two years to develop a plan to improve trans health services in the province of Ontario for trans people. Through this process the Ministry of health has agreed to:
· Establish 3 additional assessor sites for trans people needing approval of OHIP funded SRS
· Provide training for health care providers across the province in trans health care
· Conduct an evaluation of aforementioned initiatives
· Establish an advisory committee to oversee the development and implementation of these three projects.
This call for applications is to find four members of the trans community from diverse communities across the province to be members of the advisory committee for these projects. We are searching for people with particular skills to work with us to co-create improved services for trans people across the province.
We welcome applications from trans people with diverse backgrounds and experience to be part of this groundbreaking imitative. We would like to especially encourage applications from:
· people of colour & people from racialized communities;
· immigrants and refugees;
· Aboriginal and Two Spirit people;
· people whose first language is not English
· people living with (dis)abilities
· people living outside of the GTA – particularly people from rural and northern areas of the province;
We thank all applicants for their interest, but only short-listed candidates will be contacted for a telephone interview. Applicants, please be sure to include a telephone number that we can use to contact you.
Application Process
Email or mail your completed application form (click the link at the bottom of the page to download the application form), including references and a brief résumé to us by 5pm, August 18th.
Mail: c/o Jen Keystone
Rainbow Health Ontario
Sherbourne Health Centre
333 Sherbourne Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5A 2S5
July 12, 2010
2 videos by Buck Angel Entertainement featuring Buck Angel and Drew Deveaux now available on YouTube promoting Pap Smears for trans men and Prostate Exams for trans women. |
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