T’eVine is a BC-wide, online community for those who self-identifies as trans, Two-Spirit, nonbinary
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PO Box 694 T'Sou-ke Traditional Territories
Sooke, BC
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Rainbow Health is BC's largest trans, Two-Spirit, nonbinary organization. We are a volunteer based, not-for-profit cooperative that began as a community initiative early in 2014. Our mission is the promotion of gender wellness through education. Gender wellness is the set of personal strategies and public policies that makes our genders a beneficial part of our lives, families and communities. We complete Community-Based Participatory Research with our partners, the University of Victoria and the Victoria Native Friendship Centre, - Our_Community Healthcare Initiative (O_CHI) to develop new training, workshops, and wellness services. We provide Hans Kai 4 Trans in partnership with Norwest Community Health of Winnipeg Facilitator Training, Canada’s most comprehensive gender wellness program. We publish XQQ, Our Community Resource Magazine which provides a community-based directory of transition related services across BC.
O_CHI is a multi-year, BC-wide Community-Based Participatory Research Project that is investigating what systemic change would be for the T2NBY Community. O_CHI is a mixed methodology research project that establishes ongoing community resources to accomplish its objectives, while maintaining a commitment to equitable access by the Indigenous community. O_CHI views systemic change through a strengths based lens that sees a world where the T2NBY community is a respected, vital and important member of society. The start of that change is to see ourselves in that community as vital, important and worthy of respect. Our people have lived amongst all peoples, in all places, in all times. We sit where others don’t so that all might have a place. We walk where others don’t so that there are new paths. We bridge between the here and the away. We are Peacekeepers and Pathfinders. Our task is to awaken our kin to their work in this world.
The O_CHI logo is five rings that overlap each other surrounded by a circle of dots. The five rings represent five marginalized communities, Indigenous/Two-Spirit, trans/nonbinary, S*x Workers, People With Disabilities, and Newcomers. The overlap represents our communities’ intersections. The colours represent the uniqueness of each, the white our common struggles. The Silver center represents our common goal of improving wellness in our community The circle of dots represents our ongoing welcome to all.
O-CHI is an incubator of Community Projects of Innovation. The incubator consists of a core resource of support coordinators, project leads and researchers for each project. The incubator is housed at the Victoria Native Friendship Centre. In 2019, O_CHI began with a set of Pattern Language projects to build the capacity to discover, define, develop, and demonstrate the Community Projects of Innovation.
