Programs and Services
For Youth & Schools
Workshops are the cornerstone of our programming. We pride ourselves on starting a dialogue with youth, and catalyzing their action to address discrimination and promote diversity in their schools & communities.
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Jer's Vision's conference program: Dare to Stand Out Conferences is Canada's premier rainbow youth anti-bullying conference. These youth run conferences engage youth in our communities to promote diversity and stand up to bullying, discrimination and homophobia in their schools and youth communities.
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Need help with your school's Rainbow Alliance, GSA or Diversity club? We are here to lend a hand!
Our mentorship team can help by offering clubs supports, activities, and ideas to make your club the best it can be. Also, we offer bi-annual field trips, where regional clubs come together and explore their community, while learning about diversity, and making new friends.
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The Ambassador Program invites you to be a leader in your school, workplace, or community organization. On a monthly basis Jer's Vision will send out a toolkit for you to use to promote diversity in your school or workplace.
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Jer’s Vision, in partnership with the Public Health Agency of Canada, is proud to present the Dare to Stand Out: A National Hepatitis C Forum. The purpose of the project is to address the need for diversifying the preventative messaging available as well as how discrimination increases transmission of Hepatitis C and other STBBI’s.
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In Communities
Day of Pink is the International Day against Bullying, Discrimination, Homophobia, and Transphobia in schools and communities. We invite everyone to celebrate diversity by wearing pink and organizing activities in their workplaces, organizations, communities and schools.
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Jer's Vision uses art as an interdisciplinary tool to educate about diversity. Through our theater and visual arts programs, we invite youth to better understand the experience of discrimination through the perspective of an audience and participant.
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VISION 2011: A partnership summit, will be Canada's first LGBTQ-A service provider's networking summit. Organized in collaboration with PFLAG Canada, the event will bring together organizations in 2014 to discuss national initiatives, collaborations and resource sharing.
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I would like to ask you to please support LGBTQ & straight youth in Ontario who experience homophobic & transphobic bullying on a daily basis, by signing an online letter of support for the Accepting Schools Act.
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Professional Development
Jer's Vision is proud to work with community organizations, associations, unions, businesses and government to promote equity and inclusion. Our workshops effectively engage participants in truly understanding the importance of celebrating diversity and creating a workplace of respect.
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Awards & Scholarships
The Jer's Vision Visionary Award recognizes community leaders who have done something incredible and inspiring to promote diversity in their community. Previous award winners include: Matthew Good, George Strombouloulous and the Hon. Hedy Fry.
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The scholarship recognizes youth who have demonstrated a commitment to their school or community in addressing issues of discrimination. Applications for the award are due annually on June 15th. The award is open to students entering or currently enrolled in post-secondary education.
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Jer's Vision & the Embassy of the Netherlands are proud to present: Jer's Pink Tulip Grant: Canada's first grant for schools to run diversity and human rights events in their school. These 250$ grants are now seeking applications--so apply NOW. The deadline for application is Oct 18, 2011; with successful recipients to be notified on Oct 21, 2011.
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The Mandy Anderson Scholarship seeks to recognize a youth that has shown talent in English Creative Writing, English Language and Literature.
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