Additional Services

In addition to SPECTRUM's resources, support groups, and social events, SPECTRUM has also collaborated with community partners to provide the following services.

Legal Aid

Mental Health Services

Waterloo Region Community Legal Services

Waterloo Region Community Legal Services WRCLS personnel are 2SLGBTQIA+ allies and they can provide assistance with issues including name change, gender marker change, housing issues for tenants, immigration, employment law, social assistance matters, and consumer debt issues.

Use this form to contact them, or call 519.743.0254. They also have drop-in hours!

Gowling WLG also offers pro bono services for trans and non-binary people who wish to meet with a legal professional to have their gender designation forms and affidavits commissioned or notarized. Read more here.

Chrysalis Fund for Mental Health Services

SPECTRUM established the Chrysalis Fund in memory of a former Board member.

Funds donated to the Chrysalis Fund are used to subsidize the cost of counselling services for 2SLGBTQ+ people -- especially trans and non-binary folks -- through the OK2BME program at Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health.

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About counselling:

Please direct any questions about counselling to Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health. There is likely to be a waiting list. To book a counselling appointment, complete the online intake form here, or call Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health’s Intake Team at 519.884.0000.

If you are looking for counselling services but are able to pay for service you can search for private practitioners in our community at Psychology Today.
For stats and facts about 2SLGBTQ+ mental health please visit CMHA.
You can find crisis and other resources here.

Or click here to make a donation to the Chrysalis Fund.

See our Resources page for fact sheets, explainers, guides, crisis support information, and more.

SPECTRUM Resources

SPECTRUM
Waterloo Region's Rainbow Community Space
Boehmer Box Building
283 Duke Street West, Unit 210
(corner of Duke St W and Breithaupt)
Kitchener, Ontario Canada N2H 3X7

Visit our calendar for drop-in hours
Telephone: 226 779-9695
info@ourspectrum.com
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SPECTRUM acknowledges the truth that we are situated on the Haldimand Tract, which is the traditional land of Haudenosaunee and Mississauga Anishinaabe nations. We also recognise the Chinonton Peoples of what has come to be known as the Neutral Nations, a people entirely eliminated by the colonisation of this land. Read the complete statement here.

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