Enchancing Support for Trans and Gender Diverse People within our Organization

As we are approaching to the end of our project, at Adsum, we are grateful for the opportunity to enhance and expand our knowledge of the impacts of transphobia when navigating community support. With support from the Restorative Approach through the Expanding Beyond the Binary Workshop and Affirming Spaces for Folks Experiencing Homelessness Workshop the Nova Scotia Youth Project, staff where able to gain information on how to better support trans clients and staff. Each session discussed how we can enhance policies and shift our way of practice to be more inclusive of the needs of trans community.

In Canada, trans individuals are four times more likely to experience violence in comparison to cis peoples gendered. Additionally, trans and gender diverse people are twice as likely to experience homelessness, and one in five non-binary people live in poverty. With statistics such as this, it is crucial that front-line workers are provided with the tools to not reinforce forms of oppression too often experienced by this community when accessing supporting.