All support services at Project 10 are free, confidential, anonymous and open to 2SLGBTQIA+ youth between the ages of 14 to 25.
Our support services include: 1-on-1 active listening appointments, off-site accompaniments, and on-going guidance when navigating public health and social systems. The guiding ethical values and principles that inform how we offer our support services are rooted in on-going informed consent, individual agency, empowerment, transparent communication, compassion, and accountability.
What this looks like in practice is meeting you where you’re at, moving at your pace, working together to come up with care plans, creating community connections, and strengthening your skills and knowledge.
Your consent and agency are at the center of our intake process.
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Our peer support service techniques come from these approaches:
Harm reduction: honouring your body, your rules with intention and care
Person-centered: nobody but you is the expert on you, tell us what you need
Strengths-based: you are the main character, using your strengths to achieve goals
Trauma-informed: trauma & its impacts = real, not here to re-traumatize
Anti-oppressive: oppression = interconnected at all levels, here to fight for social justice
Intersectionality: all parts of identity are interdependent and create unique realities of oppression, individualized support services are essential
What this looks like in practice is holding space to authentically listen to what you have to say, trusting that you know what is best for you, and finding ways to get you the support you deserve to thrive. Overall, P10 offers other forms of support like:
Access to free safer sex materials
Harm reduction supplies
Menstrual products
Snacks
An open and welcoming space to meet other queer youths.
We also provide additional organizational referrals within the city, and offer informative resources curated for individual needs. Our support services are available:
In person
Online (emails, zoom meetings = P10 cameras on, yours can be off/on)
By phone
What this means is knowing that all information given on the intake form is kept confidential and only shared between P10 workers as necessary. Intake questions are used to help us understand individual needs exclusively.
If this sounds uncomfortable, you are more than welcome to send an email directly to support@p10.qc.ca.
1-1 appointments
1-1 Active Listening appointments can be with any member of our intervention team. This includes social work, art therapy, youth work and other interns as well as intervention staff. No matter who you are with for your 1-1 appointments, whatever is shared remains confidential, private, and consent-focused.
The only time your confidential information is shared outside of P10 is if you are in immediate danger to yourself or others
All P10 workers and interns, are committed to offering a non-judgemental, authentically compassionate, radically accepting space through active listening, honouring boundaries, respecting consent, and upholding agency. All personnel are trained in intervention. Appointment times can vary in length due to the sensitivity, complexity, and needs of each of you folks.
Some examples of topics that can be explored (but not limited to):
Identity
Coming out
Gender Expression
Big Feels
Name and gender marker change
Accessing gender affirming care
Housing and employment support
Legal referrals
Writing Letters of Support
1-1 appointments may also focus on connecting folks to various referrals, resources, and information sources that cover diverse topics such as immigration status, legal concerns or housing insecurity. Support requests can be booked through this form
We can and do offer legal and medical appointment accompaniment services. Appointment accompaniment can mean different things for different folks, for example:
a P10 worker can go with you to appointments
help you call government agencies
provide on-going guidance when navigating the public health and social systems.
Depending on your individual context, needs and goals the type of accompaniment will vary to be best suited for you.
You can use this form to file an accompaniment request.
Our community kitchen is intended for youth visiting during drop-in hours, yet if folks visiting P10 would like a snack, we can and do share! Since we are not a food bank we are limited in our ability and capacity to share food. If you are in need of long-term and sustainable food security support, we have a spot on our website dedicated to this.
The community kitchen has a rotating selection of varied snacks and drinks. The community kitchen is equipped with a microwave to warm up your food, a kettle for hot chocolates and tea, filtered water and a mini oven!
ATTENTION!
Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that our community appliances are safe from cross contamination with common allergens like gluten or peanuts.
Other Support Services
P10 is continuously evolving as a physical space with the intention of maintaining an authentic, open and welcoming space for queer youth. In doing so, some of our other support services include: access to harm reduction supplies, safer sex materials, menstrual products, snacks, additional referrals and resource sharing.
Examples of some of our harm reduction supplies: HRT Injection, safer consumption supplies, antiseptic alcohol pads, latex condoms (lubricated & non lubricated), lubricants (water & silicone based), tampons, menstrual cups, pads, and panty liners.
All of our physical support items are free and available to all youth accessing P10. Just ask us or grab what you need when you come in to see us!