Join the OUTniagara Regional Advisory Committee!
Join the OUTniagara Regional Advisory Committee!
OUTniagara has recently been awarded a second wave of funding by Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) to deliver OUTniagara’s project: Informed, Inclusive, Indivisible: Collectively Advancing 2SLGBTQ+ Equality in Niagara+, and we are looking for additional members to serve on a Regional Advisory Committee (RAC)!
Join a multi-generational team from across all 12 municipalities of Niagara working with OUTniagara to ensure informed accountability around the recommendations from the Community Strengths & Needs Assessment and collaboration with our communities on complex barriers in our region!
This project concludes in March 2023, and it is anticipated that the RAC will meet monthly.
Membership for the Regional Advisory Committee composition shall endeavour to be:
- Individuals from diverse backgrounds to ensure that the composition of the committee reflects communities of interest within Niagara that may possess differing perspectives and experience in relation to 2S & LGBTQQIA+ issues;
- A majority of BIPOC, melanated and racialized people. and people from the global majority with 2S & LGBTQQIA+ lived experience;
- Multigenerational, including members aging from youth to seniors;
- As accessible as possible to people with experiences of disability (visible and invisible), neurodiversity, addiction, mental illness, trauma, and other mental health considerations; and
- Representative of all 12 local area municipalities that make up the Niagara region.
If you are interested in joining on the RAC, please email Kerry at kerry@outniagara.ca with the following information by Friday October 7th at 5pm:
- Your name & pronouns;
- Which part of the region you live in/most often reside;
- Your interest in participating on this committee;
- How you or your experiences fit the criteria outlined in the membership composition focus (see previous slide);
- How your experiences and/or position in the community would support the mandate of this committee?;
- Availability on the 3rd Thursday of the month & your capacity to take on an average of 5 hours of meetings/ work per month.
