Planned Parenthood Toronto

Need a physical? An STI test? Pregnant? Looking for birth control options? Need to talk to a counsellor? Have questions about sex or sexuality? Are you a young man with specific health questions? A young parent, or parent-to-be, looking for support? We have health services created especially for youth ages 13-29!

For your reproductive and sexual health, we offer peer education on birth control, parenting options, STI testing and lots more for women throughout their reproductive years. We provide workshops on healthy sexuality issues, and, coming soon, new services for women who have sex with women.

We have health services that are LGBTQ-positive, an anti-homophobia education program called T.E.A.C.H., and, coming soon, new services for women who have sex with women.

We can make accessing services easier for you! We offer translation for our health services, we hold workshops in a number of languages, and we continue to create partnerships around the city to meet your needs.

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The TTS research project is a partnership between the Gendering Adolescent AIDS Prevention Project (University of Toronto) , Planned Parenthood Toronto, York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies, the University of Toronto's Public Health Sciences Department, the Ontario HIV/AIDS Treatment Network (OHTN), and Toronto Public Health.
This project is supported by two-year CBR research funding from The Ontario HIV Treatment Network.

The aim of the Toronto Teen Survey (TTS) is to gather information from youth on assets, gaps and barriers that currently exist in sexual health education and services and to use the information to develop a city-wide strategy to increase positive sexual health outcomes for diverse Toronto youth.

Teens are integrally involved in all stages of the TTS project design, development, implementation, and evaluation. The first phase of this project concluded in summer 2005. In phase one funding was secured from the Wellesley Institute to recruit 12 teens aged 13-17 years to form a Youth Advisory Committee (YAC) to assist in the development of a survey designed to assess the current state of sexual health services and desired attributes of ideal services for youth.

In September and October 2006, 20 YAC members aged 13-17 years were recruited and participated in ten weeks of training to prepare them to facilitate survey workshop sessions with their peers. In these youth-led sessions, the YAC distribute the survey to other youth in the group and explain what the survey is about and how to complete it. The YAC then facilitate a question and answer session with the group on topics related to healthy sexuality and distribute information on local community resources.

Between December 2006 and June 2007, YAC have conducted 60 workshops, with almost 800 youth filling out the survey to date. Data collection will conclude in July 2007.

In the next phase of this project, survey results will be presented to focus groups of service providers currently engaged in sexual health promotion. During these facilitated discussions, service providers will be asked to reflect on what the results mean to them in their everyday work, how current services could be adapted or improved, and provide input into the development of a comprehensive, coordinated city-wide strategy to improve and target sexual health services for youth that takes into account the diversity of youth communities and necessary approaches.