Parents & Families
Parents & Families
This directory is designed to help you find resources on Parents & Families 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
How to support gay loved ones (advice for parents and friends)
LGBTTQ+ Around The Rainbow (Family Services Ottawa)
Tips for supporting Your LGBTQ Kids and yourself during the Coming process (PFLAG)
Supporting Your Gender Diverse Child (Egale)
The Family Acceptance Project: Building Healthy Futures For Youth (Family Project)
Tips for Parents of LGBTQ Youth (Johns Hopkins Medicine)
Local Resource connections
EMBRACE YOUTH GROUP
320 Richmond Street, Unit #400
Amherstburg, Ontario, N9V 1H4
Phone: 519-736-6811
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FAMILY SERVICES WINDSOR-ESSEX
1770 Langlois Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, N8X 4M5
Phone: 519-966-5010
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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 PARENTING NETWORK
Sherbourne Health Centre, 333 Sherbourne Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5A 2S5
Phone: 416-324-4180
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH
1728 Lincoln Road
Windsor, Ontario, N8W 2S2
Phone: 519-977-6897
Around the world, Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) provides a spiritual home for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities and for all who choose to join us through the practicing of the gospel of Jesus Christ in worship, prayer, social action, education, fellowship, and generosity so that all people might experience God’s liberating love, wholeness, and justice; come to live in right relationship with God and all creation; and have the courage to change the world.
OK2BME COUNSELLING
Family Services Windsor-Essex
1770 Langlois Avenue Windsor, Ontario,
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.
PFLAG CANADA
1554 Carling Ave, Suite 243
Ottawa, Ontario, K1Z 7M4
Phone: 1-888-530-6777
PFLAG Canada is a national charitable organization, founded by parents who wished to help themselves and their family members understand and accept their non-heterosexual children. The “coming-out” process can be a critical time for families. When the adjustment period is particularly long or painful, relationships can become permanently damaged, resulting in a lifetime of emotional scars.
QLINK WINDSOR-ESSEX
Windsor-Essex Pride Fest
2109 Ottawa Street, Unit #216
Windsor, Ontario, N8Y 1R8
Phone: 226-348-3378
QLINK YOUTH DROP IN
2109 Ottawa Street, Unit #216
Windsor, Ontario, N8Y 1R8
Phone: 226-348-3378
Qlink Windsor-Essex invites you to join us for the online QConnect LGBTQ2S+ Youth Drop In.This peer facilitated online program is for individuals 12-29 years of age and offers a positive space for LGBTQ2S+ youth and their allies in an online format. This group offers a space to hang out, meet new people and make connections while fostering inclusion, community belonging, positive relationships and respect for all LGTBQ2S+ people. Groups are on Mondays and Wednesdays weekly.
RUN FOR ROCKY
1280 Woodmont Crescent
LaSalle, Ontario, N9J 3H9
Phone: 519-978-0856
The fundraising efforts through these events have established a Legacy Fund that helps to support Gay Straight Alliances in local high schools and post-secondary schools in Windsor-Essex County. This financial support includes GSA grants, GSA scholarships, funds students and educators to go to GSA educational conferences, supplies educational resources that help support parents and educators and accommodates Diversity Training for educators.
TRANSWELLNESS ONTARIO
1435 Tecumseh Road East
Windsor, Ontario, N8W 1C2
Phone: 226-674-4745
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
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.
