PARN-Your Community AIDS Resource Network

12/06/2025

Join us at the PARN office for our Winter Solstice Community Potluck!
🌙✨ December 21st, 2025 from 1:00 to 3 :00pm

All ages welcome.
All 2SLGBTQ+ folks and allies invited.
Bring a dish to share, and consider a donation if you are able. Proceeds support United Way programming, including many of PARN’s. 💗

Open house vibes
Meet the staff
Fun activities
Yummy food
Gender affirming clothing swap
Instruments welcome 🎶

Wheelchair accessible elevator ♿
Free parking 🚗

Come for the food, stay because you love how welcoming our space is. 🌈✨

PARN at 60 Hunter St E, Nogo PTBO, 2nd floor

12/05/2025

12/04/2025

❄️ Winter is here, and so is our December Schedule! ❄️
We're present across Peterborough and the 4 counties this month, offering Harm Reduction and Hep C education, testing, and support.
Remember: The only way to know if you have Hep C is by testing! Check out where we'll be!

12/02/2025

🎉 A huge THANK YOU to our incredible community members, community partners, clients, and friends who showed up and celebrated with us!🎉

Your support means everything. We're so proud to share our "We Celebrate"campaign at the event. This campaign is especially focused on amplifying the voices within our network—our staff, volunteers, clients, and students.

Swipe to hear what they have to say in regard to U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable), a powerful and vital reminder of the revolutionary developments in HIV treatment.

🧣 P.S.If you've been seeing "red scarves" lovingly hung around downtown Peterborough and Grafton, know that these were also placed by our dedicated staff and students! They are a warm and visible way to share warmth and raise solidarity for HIV/AIDS awareness in our communities.

11/30/2025

At PARN, we stand firmly behind this.
We believe in meeting people where they’re at.
We believe in dignity, autonomy, and choice.
We believe that harm reduction is love, care, and community in action.
We believe everyone deserves safety, support, and the right to be seen without stigma.

This week — and every week — we honor those living with substance use, those we have lost, and the frontline workers, peers, and loved ones who show up with courage and compassion every day.

We stand with you. We support you. We see you.

11/20/2025

Join us for World AIDS Day on December 1st at our office from 3 PM onwards.
This year, we’re embracing the theme—highlighting growing needs and the impact global cuts may have on our shared goals.

Let’s come together to honour, celebrate, and stand in solidarity. ❤️✨ Swipe to see what we have planned for the day!

11/04/2025

November's here, y'all! Did you remember to get your tires changed? Because we're definitely still going to be on the road! 🛣️ We're doing our outreach a little different this time for the counties.

We're bringing supplies right along with Hep C testing & support with

See where we're going to be next and let's connect!

10/23/2025

🎃 Spooky season is here — but your health doesn’t have to be scary! 👻
Why not treat yourself (not trick 😉) and get tested for Hep C this Halloween?

🩸 Check out our upcoming testing schedule and see when we’ll be in your area!
💬 Have questions about how or when to get tested? We’ve got you covered — send us a message anytime!

10/05/2025

🌈 Calling all 2SLGBTQIA+ newcomers & refugees in Peterborough and the 4 Counties — and those who provide services to them!

We’re reaching out on behalf of our community partner 🫱🏽‍🫲🏾. They want to hear from YOU about the barriers and opportunities to make HIV/HCV and sexual health services more accessible and inclusive.

💬 Folks can engage in various ways, and an honorarium is provided for participation.

👉 Swipe through this post to learn more about the Rainbow Resilience Program.
📲 Interested, or know someone who should be part of this? Scan the QR code in the post to register today!

10/01/2025

We’re on the road this October! 🚐


Come connect with us across our 4 counties and get tested for Hep C with our clinical partners from

Free, confidential, and supportive care— "

09/05/2025

🚗💨 On the go? We’ve got you covered!
If You or someone you know who wants to get Tested for Hep C or just wondering if they’re at risk?
👉 Join us with in Peterborough & across the 4 counties each month!
Free • Quick • Confidential ✅

📍find out our next outreach stop!

08/06/2025

🕯️International Overdose Awareness Day, August 31 🕯️
Drug poisoning is not a personal or moral failure. It is the result of a public health crisis that has been met with stigma, criminalization and systemic neglect. We live in a world where policies STILL prioritize punishment over support, where evidence based solutions like Harm Reduction, Safe Supply, Safe Consumption and decriminalization are undermined by fear and misinformation.
Until we respond with care instead of judgement, the losses will continue.
Join us in honouring the lives lost to overdose and in standing fiercely for those still with us!
💜 This day is about grief without stigma.
💪 It’s about action without shame.
🫂 And it’s about love without judgment.
Peterborough IOAD EVENTS:
Flag Raising Ceremony Peterborough City Hall
Wednesday, August 20 at 12 PM
Community Memorial & Awareness Event at Confederation Park Friday, August 29 from 1 PM to 3pm