Pride 2025
At YWCA Metro Vancouver, we’re committed to building inclusive spaces where people of all gender identities and expressions feel seen, valued, and safe. This page is your gateway to the resources, tools, and learning opportunities we’ve developed to help create more affirming environments for yourself, your workplace, or your community.
We’re proud to support 2SLGBTQIA+ communities all year through our programs, safe spaces and everyday actions, not just during Pride. As an organization that serves youth through a range of mentorship and after-school programs, we recognize that gender diversity is a natural and valid aspect of human experience.
This year, for Vancouver Pride, our Gender Inclusion Committee chose the theme “Protect Our Trans Youth,” a message that reflects our values and the work we do.
About the YWCA Gender Inclusion Committee
The Gender Inclusion Committee works across the YWCA to create a safe, equitable and just organization for people that experience marginalization on the basis of gender, sex, and sexual orientation. The Committee identifies opportunities, initiatives and changes that will strive to provide justice, equity, inclusion and safety to people that experience marginalization on the basis of gender, sex, and sexual orientation.
In June 2022, the YWCA, with the support of the Gender Inclusion Committee, contracted TransFocus Consulting to conduct an in-depth employee consultation process to explore further meaningful and tangible ways to advance gender inclusion in our workspaces, programs, and services.
The Work of the Gender Inclusion Committee
Resources
Sex Sense
Sex Sense is a free and confidential sexual health resource and referral service available Monday to Friday from 9 am to 9 pm.
Website | Phone: 1 (800) 739-7367
Love is Respect
Trained peer advocates are available 24/7/365 to offer education, support and advocacy to teens and young adults, as well as their concerned friends and family members, who have questions or concerns about their dating relationships.
Website | Phone: 1 (866) 331-9474
Text: loveis (capitalization does not matter) to 22522.
Indian Residential School Crisis Line
A national service for anyone experiencing pain or distress as a result of their residential school experience.
Phone: 1-866-925-4419 (toll-free)
Inuit and First Nations Hope for Wellness Line
The Hope for Wellness Help Line offers immediate mental health counselling and crisis intervention to all Indigenous peoples across Canada 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, or you can use the chat box at the link below to connect with a counsellor online.
Website
KUU-US CRISIS LINE
The KUU-US Crisis Line Society provides First Nations and Indigenous specific crisis line available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, toll-free from anywhere in British Columbia.
Website | Phone: (250) 723-2040
Inuit and First Nations Hope for Wellness Line
The Hope for Wellness Help Line offers immediate mental health counselling and crisis intervention to all Indigenous peoples across Canada 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, or you can use the chat box at the link below to connect with a counsellor online.
Website | Phone: 1 (855) 242-3310
YWCA Believe
Employment support for 2SLGBTQIA+ newcomers and refugees.
Visit the page | 778 349 6198 | believe@ywcavan.org
QMUNITY
BC’s Queer Resource Center Information, education, support groups, advocacy and referrals for lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, and questioning youth, adults and older adults and allies.
Website | Phone: (604) 684-5307
Prideline
A peer support service for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community. Hours are Monday to Friday, 7pm to 10pm, and offers support to people experiencing conflict.
Phone: (604) 684-6869
Sher Vancouver
‘Sher Vancouver’ is a registered charity for queer South Asians and their friends, families, and allies in Metro Vancouver, B.C. Sher Vancouver hopes to reduce the alienation and discrimination of people dealing with sexuality, gender and coming out issues by providing Crisis Counselling Program, Youth Leadership Award, Peer Support Groups, Intake, Information and Referral, Student Practicum and Mentorship Program, among many other services.
Website | info@shervancouver.com
Kids Help Phone
Immediate and caring support, information and, if necessary, referral to a local community or social service agency.
Website | Phone: 1 (800) 668-6868
Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre
Confidential, non-judgmental, free emotional support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for people experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including feelings which may lead to suicide.
Website | Phone: (604) 872-3311 or for deaf or hearing-impaired call: 1 (866) 872-0113
CART: Child Adolescent Response Team
Provides short-term crisis response to youth ages 6-19 who present with risk of harm to self or others.
Hours are 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Website | Phone: (604) 874-2300
You can also access resources through Vancouver Coastal Health
VictimLinkBC
24-hour confidential crisis support to victims of family and sexual violence and provides information and referral services to victims of crime.
Website | Phone: 1 (800) 563-0808
Youth Against Violence Line
The Youth Against Violence Line is a 24/7 anonymous and confidential line to talk to trained support workers. You can contact them about bullying, gang activity, harassment, intimidation, sexual exploitation, and many other issues. This service is also available in multiple languages.
Website | Phone: 1 (800) 680-4264 | info@youthagainstviolenceline.com | Text: (604) 836-6381
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