March 8, 2024
International Women's Day: Women's Mental Health
In recognition of women’s history month, we want to take this opportunity to highlight how mental health issues impact women. As an all women-run organization, PeerWorks recognizes that mental health issues can affect women differently and some mental disorders are unique to women.
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March 1, 2024
Black Mental Health Week
“We cannot build peace without justice, and we cannot have justice without truth.” ~ Dr. Jean Augustine
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November 20, 2023
Honouring Lives: Transgender Day of Remembrance
According to the Trans Murder Monitoring report, which tracks murders reported in the media, 320 trans people were murdered around the world between October 1, 2022, and September 30, 2023. Those were only the ones reported in the news and that number is expected to be much higher. The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance held on November 20 to pay tribute to transgender people who lost their lives to acts of anti-transgender violence.
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