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Educational opportunities for learning about gender diversity and creating gender-affirming environments.

The following courses are offered through LearningHub. The first two are available in two ways:

  • You can register for a free LearningHub account, which provides you with a certificate when you complete the course.
  • You can use the one-click links to bypass registering and receive no certificate.

Courses available are:

  • Intro to gender diversity
  • Intro to gender diversity – expanded
  • Indigenous gender diversity: Creating culturally relevant and gender-affirming services
  • Supporting gender-creative children and their families
  • Trans rights toolkit
  • Online course for healthcare providers: Gender-affirming primary care

To get more information and register for the courses, click here

Training Opportunities

The Trans Care BC team is not available to provide ‘Trans 101’ in-service trans-cultural safety training. For these trainings, we recommend one of the following options:

  • Consider one of our foundational online courses.
  • Seek out gender-diverse community members, educators, and clinical educators in your region who provide these trainings.
  • If you are not aware of experienced educators in your region, email Trans.Edu@phsa.ca for recommendations.

Trans Care BC provides a limited number of in-service trainings available to the following groups:

  • Primary care teams (physicians, nurse practitioners, and specialists) who can directly increase access to advanced gender-affirming medical care for their clients.
  • Senior leadership teams in governments, health care, and social service agencies that are able to affect system change.

If your service, program, or group fits within one of the categories above, you can request an in-service training by filling out our Education Request Form and submitting it to the email address listed.

To get more information and register for the training courses, click here


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Mental Health Resources

Psychological health and safety at WorkSafeBC

As you know, psychological health and safety in the workplace is increasingly recognized as being just as important as physical health and safety. While WorkSafeBC has focused on aspects of mental health over the years, we have now taken the opportunity to consolidate and align our efforts in an organization-wide strategy as the foundation for our work to come. The strategy was developed by our chief mental health officer, Dr. Ashley Spetch, working with a cross-organizational team and panel of international experts.
Available at worksafebc.com/psychological-h ealth-and-safety, this document enables us to better support psychological health and safety both for our own employees and for B.C.’s workers and employers. It’s an important step on a years-long journey to improve mental health and workplace psychological health and safety in B.C.  We will consult with workers and employers as we progress, provide regular updates, and invite feedback as we work to develop resources and tools. We look forward to engaging with you.

Mental-health supports for everyone:
  • Province of B.C. mental-health support page
  • B.C. COVID-19 mental health self-assessment tool
    BounceBack – free online, video, and phone-based skills-building program for seniors, adults, and youth who are experiencing low moods, mild to moderate depression, anxiety, stress, or worry
  • Counseling and mental-health services – a variety of mental-health services, including low- or no-cost community counseling programs
  • Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre – confidential, non-judgmental, free emotional support for people experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including thoughts of suicide. Call 1 800 SUICIDE (784-2433).
  • First Nations Health Authority – comprehensive mental-health and cultural supports
    The KUU-US Crisis Response Service: 24-7, culturally aware, crisis support to Indigenous people in British Columbia. Call 1 800 588-8717.
    Crisis services by region – a list of crisis supports and services by region. Find help near you.
Mental-health supports for youth, young adults and families
  • Foundry Virtual – province wide virtual services with counselling, peer support, family support, groups and workshops via chat, voice or video calls for young people aged 12-24 and their caregivers. All services are free and confidential. Call 1 833 FOUNDRY (308-6379).
  • Here2Talk – confidential, free counselling and referral services by app, phone or online chat for all registered post-secondary students, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Call 1 877 857-3397, or 1 604 642-5212 if you are a student calling from outside of Canada.
  • Ministry of Children and Family Development – the Ministry of Children and Family Development supports all children, youth and families in British Columbia to live safe and healthy lives and is responsible for providing programs and services to support child and youth mental health. A list of supports can be found here.
  • Kids Help Phone – 24-7, immediate counselling, support, information and referrals. Youth can call 1 800 668-6868 or text TALK to 686868. Texting support for adults is available by texting TALK to 741741.
  • Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre – free mental-health and substance use information, resources and peer support for B.C. parents, caregivers and families of children and youth. Call 1 800 665-1822.
Supports for seniors:
  • BC211 – this service will take calls from seniors looking for help and those who would like to volunteer to help seniors in their community, including virtual or telephone.
Support for front-line health-care workers:
  • Virtual peer support service and online resource hub – phone and text-based peer-support service.