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Running Down The Walls Join community members on October 15th at 2-5pm NT for the first ever St John’s Running Down the Walls fun 5k run/jog/walk/strut/roll. Bring $10 to participate or fundraise a minimum of $10. There will be water and snacks for all participants! Event starts at 2pm NT at the Correcti ons Wellness Garden, 89 Forest Road. The route takes us down past Dominion, along the near side of Quidi Vidi Lake , and back up throu gh Quidi Vidi Village and along Forest Road to end at the same Corrections Wellness Garden. Social to follow from 5pm-8pm at the Benevolent Irish Society (30 Harvey Rd). Featuring pizza & snacks, and a cash bar. Let us know when if there is anything we can do to make participation more accessible for you. For example, we can help with bus fare, or if you need transportation between the run location and the social we can ask a volunteer to give you a ride. Email RunningDownTheWallsNL@gmail.com with q uestions or accessibility concerns. Running Down the Walls is an annual event he ld in cities across the US and Canada every year in September or October. It is a non-competitive 5k run/jog/walk/strut/roll that is used to raise awareness and funds for prisoners, especially political prisoners, across the continent . It involves people running simultaneously in many cities and in many prisons at once. Running together is actually a big component of Running Down the Walls. The solidarity shown across cities illustrates, through several small collective actions, that we have not forgotten those locked up inside. Runs inside of prisons happen to both help politicise other prisoners and to illustrate that our acts of solidarity outside have been heard. Half of the funds raised at the first ever St John’s Running Down the Walls event will go to the Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF) Warchest Program . This money is used to assist prisoners, especially elder prisoners, who have little or no financial support by giving them a monthly check. $50 will go toward the NL based Prison Pen Pal Project , to cover the cost of postage and materials associated with writing letters to incarcerated community members. The remainder will go to the East Coast Prison Justice Society (ECJPS), a hub for prison justice advocacy on the East Coast of Canada. The ECJPS is a collaboration of individuals and organisations working to advance social justice through advocacy focused on the rights and interests of criminalised and imprisoned people. So bring $10 or fundraise even more than that, bring your most fabulous shoes, and join us on October 15th at 2pm NT t o run/walk/roll together in solidarity with those who are caged and help us build advocacy for prisoners here in Newfoundland and Labrador. If you want to help spread the word, please share this page on social media or make a post letting us know you plan to attend. Tag us on instagram @RunningDownTheWalls_NL or use the hashtag #RunningDownTheWalls_NL Email RDTW NL Visit us on Instagram

Our Roots The climate crisis is here. Every day animals go extinct, more land is flooded or becomes too dry to grow crops, storms grow bigger, wildfires become stronger, and the ice caps are melting under our feet. The problem feels insurmountable but humans created this problem—and it’s up to us to fix it. The Social Justice Co-operative NL formed in 2013 to continue the 50+ year tradition of speaking out for social justice, connecting the local with the global, and working with like-minded agencies for common social change goals. Oxfam Canada set up a regional office in St. John’s in 1964 at the instigation of a group of local activists and with staff members dedicated to build support and connections between projects in developing countries and our own communities. Learn more About: About Us Our Team Check out our Board of Directors and Staff See list of Directors and Staff here! Our Vision The struggle against patriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism, imperialism, climate change, and our corrupt economic system can feel overwhelming. It’s not a struggle we can take on alone. That’s why the Social Justice Co-operative is building a grassroots movement centred on creating caring communities and fostering friendships between activists based on caring for each other. Read Our Vision For Change Here Our Finances Here's all the information presented at our Annual General Meetings, plus our Financial Oversight Policy and Community Update on 2023 Theft in SJCNL See information here

Prisoner Justice Projects The SJC believes in prison abolition and the fight to bring about a world beyond prisons and policing. We believe communities can work together to address harm and hold one another accountable through Restorative and Transformative approaches to justice. Below are some projects we are involved in to connect with, advocate for, and support incarcerated community members. Prison Pen Pal Project We are a group of volunteers building friend ships through letter writing with community members experiencing incarceration in provincial penitentiaries in NL. Learn More about Prison Pen Pal Project Running Down The Walls Join us on October 15th 2023 at 2-5pm for the first ever St John’s Running Down the Walls fun 5k run/jog/walk/strut/roll. Bring $10 to participate or fundraise a minimum of $10. We’ll have water and snacks for all participants! Event starts at 2pm NT at the Corrections Wellness Garden, 89 Forest Road. Social to follow at 5pm NT at the Benevolent Irish Society, 30 Harvey Road. Learn More about Running Down The Walls

Our Vision: Text Save Our Oxfam Centre Letter by Phyllis Artis At the first meeting of Save the Oxfam Centre (SOS) April 3, 2012, we were invited to speak about our involvement in the St. John’s Oxfam Centre and what it means to us. Since that meeting someone asked on our website: How did it begin? I said a few words at the meeting on both: where we started and what Oxfam means to me. Here I will repeat and add to what I said at that time. I hope it and all other letters sent to this site will be read carefully by Robert Fox, who we hope to see tonight, and to the National Board of Oxfam Canada. This is my Oxfam story as I remember it today. Phyllis ------------- I’ve been involved with Oxfam since 1970. I was living in England at the time, where my husband and I were on leave from Memorial. He was doing a graduate degree and I was caring for our two young children. Television pictures of starving babies in Biafra moved me to take part in my first Oxfam initiative, an appeal to collect ‘Blankets for Biafra.' In 1973, back home in St. John’s, I joined a small Oxfam Committee, which up till then had focused mainly on fundraising for famines and other disasters overseas. Around the world Oxfam continues to raise money for overseas relief, but in St. John’s and elsewhere in Canada, Oxfam was becoming more interested in the root causes of poverty, and in particular its links with oppression. We wanted to work to promote long-term changes and not stop at charity. We, the St. John’s Oxfam Committee, decided we needed a permanent base in the city for our meetings, staff, resources and expansion of our activities. We found a shabby downtown building used to store furnace parts, persuaded a sympathetic businessman to buy it for us, signed a mortgage (using our own homes as collateral), and proceeded on weekends and holidays to dig out the filthy, oily cellar space, tear down walls, clean, paint, install shelves, scrounge, and spend endless hours writing grant applications, and developing linkages with schools, churches, unions, university, arts organizations, and other Oxfam groups in Atlantic Canada, and more. Upstairs at the Oxfam Centre we created offices and a comfortable meeting room. I remember many gatherings there. I especially remember Friday afternoon study sessions on Paulo Freire’s, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, maybe other texts too, but the discussions on Freire provided a frame of reference for many of our discussions of education, development and political activism. According to Freire ‘If [leaders] are truly committed to liberation, their action and reflection cannot proceed without the action and reflection of [the people].’ Leaders must be followers, and followers must be leaders; similarly with teachers and learners, thinkers and doers, those who donate funds and those who receive the funds. We must act together through dialogue, and avoid the dichotomies in language and living that reflect the prescriptive methods of the dominant elites. These ideas helped shape our projects, and my thinking ever after. Downstairs we opened a store for fair-trade crafts (though we called them something else then), a lending library, free books and pamphlets on development (vital resources before the internet) and some books and magazines for sale. Our idea was to educate the public; find outlets and fair prices for crafts produced in co-ops around the world; encourage the public to drop in and learn about us and our work; attract volunteers, and bring in some income to help sustain our Oxfam Centre at 382 Duckworth St. Financially I don’t think the Oxfam shop was ever very successful, but it made us visible in the city: a welcoming space where people could drop in to learn more about Oxfam and 'third-world' countries, and where any activist groups without a home could meet. Throughout my years on various St. John's Oxfam Committee boards and committees we had amazing, inspirational, well-informed, dedicated staff. First we hired Rich Fuchs and Anne Manuel, recent graduates of Memorial, to do administration, outreach and education, and shortly after that Sean McCutcheon to research the illnesses of miners in St. Lawrence. And then we brought in (after much letter-writing and red tape) Juan Ruz, a refugee from Chile who fled for his life after Allende’s assassination. We provided room and board for Juan and very modest salaries for Juan and the other three staff members. We were a mixed group: students, professors, retirees, artists, unemployed, some from this province and some from elsewhere, old and young, a few with a lifelong record of social activism and others with little or no experience of this kind. We came from differing cultural, religious, political, economic and ethnic backgrounds. Of the active members from my earliest days, the movers, shakers and visionaries who made things happen, the first to come to mind are Rosemary and John Williams and David Thompson, and shortly after that Frances Ennis, Lorraine Michael, Dorothy Inglis, Lois Saunders, Tony Berger, Rod Singaraya and Keith Storey. We partnered with schools, university, community groups, unions and more; we invited guest lectures, organized workshops, and protested with placards in front of banks with investments in South Africa; we boycotted South African wine and we invited a South African friend living in St. John’s to report on his impressions of life under Apartheid when he returned from a family visit to South Africa. We elected representatives from the St. John’s Oxfam Committee to sit on Oxfam Canada’s Regional and National boards, and to travel to the UK for training in building emergency shelters for disaster relief. We had heated debates on funding priorities, ways of increasing awareness of injustice in the world, and ways of addressing these injustices, of contradictions between the principles we believed in and the ways we raised our children and conducted our lives. We were always short of money but we had enough determined, hardworking, optimistic volunteers and staff to keep the centre alive as a vibrant force in the community. And we debated everything. Was it ethical for Oxfam Canada to use the funds it raised, in part from impecunious Newfoundlanders, to pay what seemed to us exorbitant consulting fees to Mel Watkins to help negotiate land claims for the Dene Nation? Should we accept the offer of a local author of bestselling booklets of Newfoundland humour to organize a fundraising drive for us? (We liked him but had mixed reactions to his sense of humour). How could those of us who taught in schools and universities engage students in a Freirian dialogue about inequities around us without engaging in ‘the prescriptive methods of the dominant elites'? I believe the debates and dialogue did much to keep the organization alive and growing over the decades. We also plotted, planned, lobbied, and did whatever had to be done, from meetings at the Centre that extended late into the night, to the hard physical labour of operating the Centre and programs. We learned to think globally as we as tried to act locally. And we had fun. We cooked and ate together, played soccer, took care of each other's kids, worked on a quilt one winter (though I’m not sure we ever finished it). In short we developed a community that is still strong. . . and growing. Of course individuals have come and gone. I am less active in Oxfam now than I used to be. But many of my close friendships date from that Oxfam group of the 70s. Although all my biological family live elsewhere, I decided to retire here in part because of the Oxfam community that provides opportunities to live and work and dialogue with people who share so much of my history and so many of my values. I continue to participate in many of Oxfam's public meetings, celebrations, and fundraising events, and am always made to feel welcome, a part of this extraordinary community. I have been a substantial monthly donor to Oxfam Shareplan (or its predecessor) for over thirty years, I contribute to special fundraising events conducted by Oxfam at other times, and most of my Christmas gifts are now from Oxfam's Gifts Unwrapped. I have willed a portion of my estate to Oxfam. For decades the extraordinarily dedicated, brilliant team of Linda Ross and Bill Hynd led the way at the St. John's Oxfam Centre, keeping oldtimers informed and involved, while opening doors to new volunteers and new projects here and overseas, providing opportunities for the community to get together to raise funds, celebrate, mourn, demonstrate, and act in a thousand ways to promote social justice at home and abroad. Then Linda moved on and Bill seemed to take on the double load without missing a step. I will never know where he finds the energy, efficiency, compassion, intelligence, insight and unflappable good humour to accomplish all he does. But I will be forever grateful to him for carrying on, in spite of what seems to me callous and most undialogic, undemocratic treatment from the National Board and staff at Oxfam Canada. He is an inspiration to all of us. It is unthinkable that the St. John's Oxfam Centre, which we bought and developed, with our own bucks and blood, should be sold summarily, and Bill Hynd fired, without consultation with local staff, board or community. It is also unthinkable that anyone in this province who has supported Oxfam in the past will ever do so again if this threat is carried out. Our Vision: Text

Our Finances 2025 AGM Minutes Treasurer Report Activity Report In October 2025, we held our 12th AGM in St. John's, NL! Click the links to download our minutes, treasurer's report, audit team report, and activity report from the meeting. Audit Team Report 2024 AGM Minutes Treasurer Report Activity Report In October 2024, we held our 11th AGM in St. John's, NL! Click the links to download our minutes, treasurer's report, audit team report, and activity report from the meeting. Audit Team Report 2023 AGM Minutes Treasurer Report Activity Report In September 2023, we held our 10th AGM in St. John's, NL! Click the links to download our minutes, treasurer's report, and activity report from the meeting. Financial Oversight Policy Download Community Update on 2023 Theft in SJCNL Learn More

Zero Waste: Programs Zero Waste Action Team Towards a world without waste. Our goal is to reduce the waste created by individuals and industry to prevent exacerbating the climate crisis. We also work towards a Green New Deal vision of better resource management, including water, focusing on waste reduction from production to consumption and support of a circular society through research and policy. Past member of Zero Waste Canada. The Zero Waste Action Team became inactive in Winter 2023 but one of our members, Ángela Viviana Ramírez-Luna, has launched the NL Community Composting Cooperative Network with the support of the Social Justice Co-op and the NL Federation of Co-operatives! The mission is to bring composting to every neighbourhood in St. John's and communities in NL. I'm recruiting members for the Steering Committee, which will define the committee members' responsibilities, co-op benefits and services, business plan and by-laws and other logistical necessities to incorporate. Check out out their website and social media to learn the details and sign up! Like Our FB Page INSTAGRAM WEBSITE TWITTER LINKEDIN Zero Waste: Welcome Zero Waste: Text WE WON... LEWISPORTE INCINERATOR REJECTED! As a result of swift and strong community organizing across the province, community groups and members have successfully pressured the NL gov to REJECT the incinerator planned by synergy world power in Lewisporte! Thanks to everyone's vigilance and effort, we did it!! Members of the SJC, Council of Canadians - Avalon Chapter, and community groups came together to celebrate this victory in February 2023. Letter to the City of St. John's re: Climate Crisis Plan "We were elated to see the City of St. John’s declare a climate emergency and join the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy in 2019. These actions recognized the threat of climate change and the vital role that cities must play to prepare. Since then, we have faced significant challenges, from “Snowmageddon” to COVID-19, highlighting the need for solid emergency preparation. We believe the City of St. John’s could be a climate action leader in Canada and well prepared for climate change’s challenges with active consultation." Read full letter Community Composting Pilot Project In partnership with Stella’s Circle and Planeet Consulting , in summer 2022, we installed three composting bins in downtown St. John’s to collect organics from a group of neighbours and produce compost for the use of Stella’s and participants. Our long-term vision is to replicate this program across the city providing social, economic, and environmental benefits to individuals, neighbourhoods, community gardens, schools, businesses, and more! You can learn more about our vision in this blog . A big thank you to our sponsors: City of St. John’s (Community Grants ), MMSB (Solid Waste Management Innovation Fund ), and Food First NL (St. John’s Food Assessment ). Zero Waste: What We Do Plastics Study & Brand Audits Our team undertook a Brand Audit as part of the #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement, a global movement envisioning a future free from plastic pollution. Your participation will help us collect the data we need to work with the provincial government and the Multi-Materials Stewardship Board (MMSB) to implement Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), holding corporations accountable for the plastic pollution crisis. Brand Audit 2020 Read The Report Brand Audit 2023 Read The Report Spread The Word Watch Our Video Past Events The Road to Zero Waste Waste is a significant part of our economies, our cultures and our everyday lives. A number of waste reduction programs and policies have been promoted across the globe but with varying levels of adoption and success. With the mounting challenges of climate change and oceanic pollution, dealing with our waste is a pressing issue. This event highlighted two specific, yet related, approaches to waste reduction that have gained recent attention: Zero Waste (ZW) and the Circular Economy (CE). Read The Report What's in Your Trash? On May 20, 2020, we joined Sophie Wells and Sarah Sauvé to learn about zero waste theory and how to do a trash audit so we can all have a better idea of what we throw out and how we can throw out less! This webinar was organized by the Zero Waste Action Team for anyone interested in reducing their waste at home. Watch Here COVID and Our Throw Away Culture On May 27, 2020, we had a conversation with Kathryn Kellogg , Jamie Kaminski and Dan Rubin about our consumer make-take-throw away culture. The discussion addressed the following questions - How did we become a throw-away culture? Have we actually reduced what we throw away? Has COVID made us think about what is truly important? What strategies can we use to create a healthier way of life? What are we already doing that we can build on? Watch Here Green New Drinks: Barriers to Living Low Waste On February 3, 2021, panelists Debbie Wiseman, Sarah Sauvé, Jess Puddister and Rob Salsman got togteher at Bannerman Brewing Co. to discuss 'Barriers to Living Low Waste'. They addressed the following questions: 'How did we get so wasteful? How do we reduce waste under an economic system that encourages and profits from waste? What stands out as a barrier to reducing waste, that you couldn't solve as an individual? How might we address this barrier structurally? The event was organized by The Social Justice Co-operative NL as part of 'Green New Drinks'. Watch Here

Our Objectives To research, analyze and speak to the structural causes of social injustice locally and globally; To provide policy alternatives to all levels of government that will address and redress matters of social, economic and political inequality in Newfoundland and Labrador; To develop and provide public education on the links between global and local structural causes of poverty and increase awareness of the need for and the value of social justice in Newfoundland and Labrador and around the world; To be an example of an active and engaged citizenry, initiating and supporting campaigns and activities that give voice to people and the environment that become the victims of social injustice; To develop partnerships with other social justice groups and collaborate with them to achieve common social justice goals; To provide educational/training services in social justice issues and any other relevant services to our partners and other interested parties; To promote membership and active participation in the Social Justice Co-operative; To create and maintain a physical symbol and focal point for social justice activities in Newfoundland and Labrador; to engage in any and all activities that will enable the Co-operative to achieve its general mandate and objectives Our Objectives: Welcome

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Teams We are so thankful for all of the volunteers and partners working on many fronts in the Revolution of Care. This page shows some of the teams that have formed within the SJC over the years. Some of these groups are still active and meeting (AxA Book Club, Challenge Car Culture, Prison Pen Pals, 2SLGBTQ+ Mutual Aid Pod. Transformative Justice Working Group) and others are less active or dormant at this time (Coalition for a Green New Deal, Food Sovereignty, Zero Waste). There may still be content updates on team pages that aren't currently meeting or active, if the SJC participates in something that fits into one of the sub-group themes. While sub-group activity and meetings ebb and flow, the work continues on many fronts, and you can learn more about the projects and initiatives the SJC is involved in on the Social Justice Spotlight section of the website. Challenge Car Culture Challenging the idea that cars are the default way to get around. Advocating for accessibility, pedestrian safety/rights, public transit, and mobility justice. Learn More Anti-Capitalist x Activist Book Club Reading together for revolution! Learn More Prison Pen Pals Connecting and building solidarity through letter writing with incarcerated community members. Learn More Our Work: Programs 2SLGBTQ+ Mutual Aid Pod Organizing mutual aid efforts within the 2SLGBTQ+ community Learn More Transformative Justice Working Group Thinking through how to address conflict and harm in transformative, restorative, non-punitive ways that recognize the value, dignity, and potential of everyone Learn More Climate Action + Coaliton for a Green New Deal Confronting climate crisis and working towards a sustainable and just future Learn More Food Sovereignty Thinking critically and eating ethically Learn More Poverty Elimination Working to improve the well-being of low/no income people in NL Learn More Zero Waste Working toward a world without waste Learn More

Join the Social Justice Co-operative Join: Welcome INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIP SJC BY-LAWS Co-operative Values & Principles Co-operatives are based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity. In the tradition of their founders, co-operative members believe in the ethical values of honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others. The co-operative principles are guidelines by which co-operatives put their values into practice. Join: What We Do 1. Voluntary and Open Membership Co-operatives are voluntary organisations, open to all persons able to use their services and willing to accept the responsibilities of membership, without gender, social, racial, political or religious discrimination.

Acerca de SJC Grant Approval The Revolution of Care is dynamic, flexible, inquisitive, and courageous. It requires many moving parts to respond to the complexity of community and how we can live sustainably and kindly on this land. To build a movement, we need to envision and support an ecosystem of change, which can include partnering with outside organizations to fund project goals. In 2020, for every $1 that the SJC spent, we were able to leverage $0.92 in grants from external organizations thanks to the dedication and determination of our members To support the brilliant ideas and inspirational activities needed to craft a Revolution of Care, the SJC encourages our members to apply for external funding and can help connect you with different opportunities.. SJC can lend institutional support to external grant applications since this can: a) be a funding requirement and; b) help solidify confidence in the application to an external funder. However, as a largely volunteer organization with limited resources, the Board is charged with assessing our co-operative capacity to take on new projects and whether the external funder aligns with our values. A few of our favourite grants include: Rising Youth (for 30 and under) Community Grant Program (within City of St. John's) Quick Start Fund for Public Engagement (need partner from Memorial University) RULES TO SUBMIT Applications will be reviewed by the Board based on the following considerations: To maintain political independence, the SJC will not accept outside funding for permanent staff positions. The organization will take funding from non-profits, academic institutions, unions, religious organizations, and government for short-term positions and project costs. It will not take funding from corporations and industries that exploit and extract from people and the planet, even if it is filtered through a different organization. We reserve the right to deny any funding from organizations that do not share our values. Notice of approval for grants will be 7 days for grants under $1,000 and up to 60 days for grants greater than $1,000. We encourage members to fill out the form as early as possible to ensure that we can do our best to support the success of the project. APPLY HERE! Submissions may be made by through email or the web form below. Email submissions can be sent to socialjusticecoopnl@gmail.com . Applications can be downloaded here. Name Email Are you a member of SJC? * Required Yes No Unsure How will you identify the project in your grant application and any promotional material? * Required As an SJC project As an SJC action team or working group project As an external project through another organization with SJC as a partner As an external project as an independent social citizen with SJC as a partner If this is a partnership, do you have the consent of the other organization(s) to partner with SJC? Yes No How will SJC be recognized by the project? * Required As a partner: the project will give equal billing to SJC and use its logo As a supporter: the project will acknowledge the contribution(s) or role(s) of SJC but will not use its logo As a participant: the project will invite SJC members and the SJC community to participate in the project if the external grant is successful, but will not use its logo Which of the following SJC Objectives from our Bylaws does your project fulfil? Check all those that apply. * Required To research, analyze and speak to the structural causes of social injustice locally and globally; To provide policy alternatives to all levels of government that will address and redress matters of social, economic and political inequality in Newfoundland and Labrador; To develop and provide public education on the link between the global and the local structural causes of poverty and increase awareness of the need for and the value of social justice in Newfoundland and Labrador and around the world; To be an example of an active and engaged citizenry, initiating and supporting campaigns and activities that give voice to people and the environment that become the victims of social injustice; To develop partnerships with other social justice groups and collaborate with them to achieve common social justice goals; To provide social justice related educational/training services and any other relevant services to our members and other interested parties; To promote membership and active participation in the Social Justice Co-operative; To create and maintain a physical symbol and focal point for social justice activities in Newfoundland and Labrador; To engage in any and all activities that will enable the Co-operative to achieve its general mandate and objectives. Briefly describe the grant application Who is the funder? Please include link to website When is the application due? Some projects may require hiring staff and/or financial reporting. Would the project require administrative support from SJC? * Yes. The budget for the grant proposal contains an administrative fee for SJC that represents 5% of the total budget. No Some projects may require in-kind or sweat-equity support from partnering organizations. Would the project require in-kind labour from SJC board members, action teams, working groups, and/or individual volunteers? * Yes. The project will independently build relationships within SJC and plan and execute recruitment of in-kind contributions of volunteer labour within SJC. No Some projects may require social media promotion and/or public relations work. Would the project require promotional support from SJC? * Yes. The project will supply SJC volunteers with a scheduling plan, images, text, and image descriptions for all promotion work. No Is there anything else you would like to add? Send Thank you for your submission! We will contact you when a decision has been made.

2SLGBTQ+ Mutual Aid Pod This group was created by Trans, Two spirit and Queer people with support of the SJC in 2020 , to organize mutual aid efforts during Snowmaggedon, and beyond. Our Community Aid Fund can be availed of for help with essentials including but not limited to: food, rent, utilities, gender affirming gear, etc. Our ability to help with a request depends on how much is in the fund, which fluctuates. We will do our best to help, but may not always be able to, even though we wish we could, because no one deserves to go without necessities. To request help from the fund, please email us at: 2slgbtqaidnl@gmail.com The 2SLGBTQ+ or "Queer" pod runs a small Community Aid Fund, hosts events online & in person, and connects community members to each other to build solidarity and facilitate mutual aid. You can help make a difference by donating to the Community Aid Fund: If you'd like to support, you can do so, here: donorbox.org/caf2020 Want to get involved in organizing mutual aid efforts with the 2SLGBTQ+ mutual aid pod? We'd love to have you join us. Reach out via our email: 2slgbtqaidnl@gmail.com for more information about getting involved, or to request a link for our next zoom meeting. All welcome! No experience expected :) ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Publicly available community supports including helplines, mental wellness supports, COVID-19 information, and more. Start with 211 Looking for help navigating programs and services? 211 Website 211 is an Information, Assessment, Referral and Follow-Up service that can be the frontline in connecting people in Newfoundland and Labrador with valuable Government and Community-based programs and services, as well as the non-clinical health and social services. 211 can link people to supports for food, income and housing; seniors, people with disabilities, and newcomers; violence and abuse; mental health and addictions, and the list goes on. 211 is now another access point for the Public to find a naloxone distribution site near them! 211 is 24/7, 356 days a year, it can support over 150 languages, it is free and confidential, wait times are minimal, and we do warm transfers to clinical services and programs. All calls are answered by trained and certified professionals who are ready to listen, assess and advocate when needed. The 211 motto is: Help Starts Here. Domestic Violence Helpline If you're in an unsafe home situation or relationship, there is the Domestic Violence Helpline. The province-wide (Newfoundland and Labrador), toll free number is 1-888-709-7090. Call: 1-888-709-7090 Call Domestic Violence Helpline Did you know the Red Cross is offering support to self-isolators? If you don't have a safe place to isolate, or if you are isolating and need help with food or medication, give them a call and they can help you out. Call: 1-800-863-6582 Call Red Cross Domestic Violence Helpline Red Cross Helpline Bridge the gapP Mental Wellness online resources Bridge the gapp is an online resource designed to support mental wellness. You can visit https://bridgethegapp.ca to access age-appropriate programs and services that are available locally, confidential and free. Visit BridgeTheGapp.ca NL Public Health COVID-19 Information Take care of yourselves and one another, while following public health guidelines of course. You can find update guidelines from NL Public Health here: https://www.gov.nl.ca/covid-19 Visit gov.nl.ca/covid-19 GovNL.ca/Covid-19