JOB POSTING

Peers Contract
Queen West site

Harm Reduction Outreach (Peer)
6 months contract (with a possibility of extension), 2 positions at the Queen West site

Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre (Parkdale Queen West CHC) is a dynamic, community-based health
care organization serving mid-west downtown Toronto. Offering a broad range of services, including primary health care,
dental care, harm reduction, health promotion, counselling, and community development programming, we are also
committed to serving people who face barriers to health care, and we strive to reduce these barriers. PQWCHC is a multi-
sited organization.

Program overview: The Trip! Project supports diverse youth who use drugs and provides harm reduction and overdose

prevention education and supplies to youth (aged 16 - 30) in Toronto and helps link youth to services. PQWCHC’s Trip!

Project team needs compassionate and motivated people committed to offering respectful community building, harm

reduction and overdose prevention services from an anti-racist and social justice perspective.

The Trip! Project Peer identifies with the above, bringing their expertise and lived experience to support both the program

and agency to better meet the needs youth who party in various scenes, use substances, are street-involved, or who do sex

work in Toronto. All Trip! Project Peers will have the support of PQWCHC staff and ongoing training to build individual, team,

agency, and community strengths.

Hiring focus: BIPOC Youth, 2S-LBTQIA+ Youth, Youth with lived experience with drug use, homelessness and/or sex work

Do you have:

• Personal experience, and/or knowledge, of drugs and drug use
• Personal experience, and/or knowledge, of homelessness, sex work, mental health issues, HIV, HCV or incarceration
• Previous harm reduction-related, and/or peer-support, experience, education, or training
• Ability to work 4-to-8-hour outreach shifts including evenings/weekends (including Thursday evenings for

Wage rate: $16.36/hour + 4% vacation pay (approx. 10 hours per week/40 hours per month, schedule TBD by coordinator)

To apply please send your resume, letter of interest and a harm reduction related blog post OR image or video-based flyer

or social media post that you made, and contact information to the following mailing address:

Hiring Committee – Harm Reduction Outreach Worker (Peers)

PARKDALE QUEEN WEST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE – QUEEN WEST SITE

168 Bathurst Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2R4

Applications may also be sent via e-mail to info@tripproject.ca

Application Deadline: Tues April 25th, 2023

We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

PQWCHC is committed to the principles of access and equity. PQWCHC is committed to reflecting the diversity of the communities it serves and we

encourage applicants who reflect Toronto’s indigenous, LGBTQ2, racial, and cultural diversity. We welcome and encourage applications from all

qualified candidates, including people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request. Parkdale Queen West CHC is in full compliance

of the Ontario Human Rights Code and does not discriminate on the ground of records of offenses. People with experience using drugs, working in

the sex trade, Indigenous people, racialized people, people from the LGBTT2SQQIA community, people living with HIV, people with experiences of

incarceration and institutionalization, people who have experienced trauma, and people who have experienced homelessness or street involvement

will be given special consideration.

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