Info for Queer Youth & their Healthcare Providers

This section of the website is a result of a project intended to help address the sexual health issues of queer youth in Saskatoon. Funding was found from the Muttart Foundation Youth Granting for Youth program and the Advisory Committee on Family Planning to create a focus group consisting of queer and allied youth to find out what they needed to address the sexual health issues of the queer youth in Saskatoon.

For a two month period 12 youth were recruited to act as a focus group for the LGBT Youth Project. Initially, the purpose of the project was to see if a clinic which welcomes and addresses the unique sexual health needs of the queer youth population in the Saskatoon area was appropriate. It was thought that this clinic could be operated once a month out of the Sexual Health Centre Saskatoon. However, over the course of the focus group meetings, several important recommendations were made by the youth group. The youth did not want a segregated clinic, what they wanted was better access to educational resources that are specific to the queer population including general information on queer sexual health. Secondly, the youth felt, for the most part, the medical community is heterosexist and when visiting health care providers their sexual orientation was assumed to be heterosexual.

The outcome of the focus group was to expand the Sexual Health Centre's website to include resources for health care providers and queer youth. The section focusing on health care professionals provides literature regarding better practice models when working with the queer community. The section on queer youth provides resources surrounding sexual health information specific to queer youth.
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