Queer & Trans Family Planning

Register online now: http://lgbtqpn.ca/events/queer-trans-family-planning/ A weekend course for people of diverse family structures and identities, including gender queer, trans, bisexual, poly, pan or omni-sexual, dyke, butch, femme, boi, lesbian, gay, queer, or other, and their partners. This content of this course emphasizes donor insemination, adoption, and co-parenting, and other pathways to parenthood. Explore practical, emotional, social, financial, medical and legal issues related to becoming a parent. Find information, clarify needs and decisions, and build community. Topics Include Getting Grounded: Ideas of family, lifestyle changes, pathways to parenthood Fertility awareness and insemination procedures Adoption The Heart Connection: Non-biological and adoptive parenting Co-parenting Surrogacy Legal Issues Self-Advocacy: Building our confidence and our communities What about the kids? Weekend Course Information The weekend format is offered to make courses more accessible to people who are outside Toronto. In each weekend session, approximately half of participants are from outside the Greater Toronto Area. Queer & Trans Family Planning – Fall 2015 Friday, November 13, 2015 7:00-9:30 PM Saturday, November 14, 2015 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Sunday, November 15, 2015 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Optional – 9:30 AM Meet & Greet for participants both mornings. Location Sherbourne Health Centre 333 Sherbourne St. Toronto, ON M5A 2S5 Sherbourne Health Centre is an accessible, scent-free building. Washrooms are single-user gender neutral and accessible. Please refrain from wearing or using scented products while you are here. Meals Snacks will be provided. You are encouraged to bring your own lunch, or consider any of the nearby restaurants. Registration The registration fee for weekend courses is $125 + HST per person Register online and pay online with a credit card, or pay at The 519 Front Desk. Payment must be received by Friday October 30, 2015 to ensure your space in the class. A sliding scale is available. Register online to hold your space and the LGBTQ Parenting Network will contact you to finalize the amount payable and the payment arrangements. More information For more information about the sliding scale, or for assistance with the registration process, please contact: LGBTQ Parenting Network 416-324-4100 ext. 5276 lgbtqpn@sherbourne.on.ca LGBTQ family planning courses are joint programs of The 519 and the LGBTQ Parenting Network at Sherbourne Health Centre. lgbtqpn.ca/courses Fall 2015 Daddies & Papas 2B Dykes Planning Tykes Wednesday evenings at The 519 7:00 - 9:30 PM September 9 - December 9 2015* * No class on Wednesday September 23 2015 – Yom Kippur * No class on Wednesday November 11 2015 – Remembrance Day Queer & Trans Family Planning - Weekend - November 13, 14 & 15, 2015 Friday evening, all day Saturday and Sunday at Sherbourne Health Centre Family Planning Courses are a joint program of Queer Parenting Programs at The 519 and LGBTQ Parenting Network at Sherbourne Health Centre