The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), the infamous Toronto facility known for regressive and humiliating treatment of transgender clients, is about to lose the monopoly that allowed them to become the most notorious “gender clinic” in the world. A Provincial Trans Health Project Advisory Committee is being formed to address this problem that emerged in Ontario over 40 years ago and has been a problem ever since.

Loralee Gillis, Coordinator of Research and Policy at Rainbow Health Ontario, has just made the following announcement:

Request for applications for membership on Provincial Trans Health Project Advisory Committee

We are seeking trans people from across Ontario to be members of a 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 ground breaking 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;

Application Process
Click here to link to our website and the application form (NB—you will need to scroll down):
http://www.facebook.com/l/eb87dID3L6lvSJblhVIY2k_s5tg;www.rainbowhealthontario.ca/about/whatsnew.cfm?startRow=1#aec572d74-3048-8bc6-e8ee-cad0372460ed

Email or mail your completed application form, including references and a brief résumé to us by 5pm, August 18th.

Email: [email protected]
Mail: c/o Jen Keystone
Rainbow Health Ontario
Sherbourne Health Centre
333 Sherbourne Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5A 2S5

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.

Loralee Gillis
Coordinator of Research and Policy
Rainbow Health Ontario
Sherbourne Health Centre
333 Sherbourne Street
Toronto, ON
M5A 2S5
http://www.facebook.com/l/eb87dvRjo8Kr_0htJ5kYJT-K0FA;www.RainbowHealthOntario.ca
Tel: 416-324-4100 x5263
Fax: 416-324.4262

Any Canadian citizens seeking trans health services are urged to avoid CAMH at all costs. Please contact one of several alternatives, including the Sherbourne Health Centre listed above.

Further information:
Close the CAMH Gender Identity Clinic
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=72087499258

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) vs. sex and gender minorities
http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/centre-addiction-mental-health.html