Ottawa Transgender Newcomer Needs Assessment
Based on community consultation, Kind Space is conducting a needs assessment for transgender newcomers only within unceded Algonquin territory (Ottawa and the surrounding region). The hope is that the information in this survey will be used to help create programs and...
Mental Wellness Week for Staff
This year, Kind Space is starting something new. From Monday, July 5 to Sunday, July 11, Kind Space staff will be taking the full week off. This means that they will not be reachable during this time to respond to questions or requests for resources. The pandemic has...
Kind Space supports OCDSB decision
Kind Space wholehearted supports direct investment into the health and wellbeing of young people. Earlier this month the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) voted to reallocate funding for School Resource Officers (SROs) in Ridgemont and Gloucester High...
Statement on Anti-Black Racism and Black Liberation
As a 2SLGBTQ+ community organization led by Black, Indigenous, and people of colour we are enraged, we are heartbroken, we are tired. As individuals we are organizing, we are grieving, we are making the space for others to do the same. As an organization, our usual...
COVID-19 & Kind Space
Dear community members, As a precaution, Kind Space will be suspending in-person discussion/support groups, workshops, outreach events, and rentals until April 5. At the time we will reassess based on the information that is available at that time. Staff will be...
Kind supports Overdose Prevention Ottawa
We at Kind wholeheartedly support Overdose Prevention Ottawa (OPO). This support is extended to all of OPO’s work, including their recent pop-up overdose prevention site. OPO is providing life-saving services that do not yet exist in Ottawa. These services are as...
Joint Call to Action – Make Ottawa a Sanctuary City!
BREAKING: For International Women’s Day, 27 organizations advancing women’s equality call on City Council to make Ottawa a Sanctuary City! A sanctuary is about gender justice and women’s equality. Email Mayor Watson and Council to show your support...
A letter to the National Art Gallery of Canada
To Marc Mayer, Director of the National Gallery of Canada, and to Thomas P. d’Aquino, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Canada, We at Kind were disappointed and dismayed to hear that the National Gallery of Canada will be hosting Jordan...
A message to our communities
Dear LGBTTQIA Communities in Ottawa, This letter to you has been a difficult one to write. It has been difficult to find words that not only convey the anger, devastation, fear, and exhaustion many of us feel but also the disheartening confusion that has come from the...
Better Together: Kind and Planned Parenthood Ottawa join forces to create new downtown community centre
Ottawa – It’s no joke! On April 1st, Ottawa will have a new downtown community centre dedicated to gender, sexual orientation, sexuality, and reproductive health. Kind and Planned Parenthood Ottawa (PPO) are bringing their joint 84 years of experience serving the...