Community Wellbeing Project
Community Wellbeing Project is a free, confidential, and personalised one on one Peer Support Service with an objective to strengthen community resources to respond to the emotional struggles we face as queer-trans individuals due to the stigma and discrimination from society, from our own families, friends and co-workers. This program is based on the principles and values of peer support that promote mental wellbeing such as recognising lived experience as knowledge, subjectivity and involvement of the self as a resource to work with mental distress and promote wellbeing.
Who can Benefit from Peer Support?
If you find yourself experiencing emotional distress on account of your gender and sexuality, a team of Peer Support Providers from the LGBTQ+ community is ready to support you. They are trained and equipped with perspective, knowledge, skills and ethics to offer support to community members. This form of emotional support is also known as Peer Support. It is free, queer affirmative, and aims to serve members of the LGBTQ+ community from all socioeconomic backgrounds.
How and Why will Peer Support help?
Your Peer Support Providers will provide free and completely confidential one-on-one structured sessions over the phone to help you deal and cope with the emotional and mental health struggles you may be facing as an LGBTQ+ individual such as difficulty with self-acceptance, confusion about one’s identity, lack of acceptance from family and loved ones, feelings of loneliness and isolation, relationship concerns, heartbreak, and experiences of discrimination.
Peer support is a system of giving and receiving help based on inclusivity, mutual respect, shared experiences and responsibilities. It develops our ability to see our lives not as “problems”, or “what we have” and “how it needs to be treated”, but instead interpret our experiences in a mutually empowering way. You can find out more about peer support here.
How to access Peer Support Providers?
You can directly contact a trained Peer Support Provider of your choice and comfort, by accessing their Profiles by clicking below.
For more information on the program please go through our list of FAQs. We hope you will access this free, confidential, and queer affirmative service and access a resource of mental wellbeing provided by and for other members of the LGBTQ+ community.
For grievance redressal, suggestions or questions please reach out to us at [email protected]