LibGuides: Navigating Trans and Gender-diverse Health Care: Information for Health Care Providers

prideHealth Resources

About prideHealth

Nova Scotia Health prideHealth Navigation Services
The prideHealth navigator works with individuals and groups to help members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community connect with services within the Health System and community resources.
prideHealth (rack card)
WX85-1634 -- prideHealth (2022) -- French version: English: FF85-2392 -- Arabic version: AR85-2391
Fierté-Santé (rack card)
FF85-2392 -- prideHealth (2022) -- English version: WX85-1634
برايد هيلث (prideHealth) - rack card
AR85-2391 -- prideHealth (2022) -- English version: WX85-1634 -- French version: FF85-2392

Poster for Use in Healthcare Spaces

Positive Space [Poster]

prideHealth Pronoun Resources

How to Access Pronoun Stickers - for staff
If your site and/or site contact is not listed in the above document, please contact prideHealth@nshealth.ca.
IWK Health and prideHealth Pronoun Poster
For display in common patient and staff areas and in admin spaces.
Meeting Diverse Patient Needs: Using pronouns and gender-inclusive language
Nova Scotia Health, 2022
Nova Scotia Health prideHealth Pronoun Poster
For display in common patient and staff areas and in admin spaces.
Nova Scotia Health prideHealth Pronoun Poster
French version: For display in common patient and staff areas and in admin spaces.
Pronoun Information
This guide gives tips and best practices on using correct pronouns with patients and colleagues as a meaningful, important, and crucial way of showing respect.
Pronoms [guide en français]
الضمائر [Pronouns]

prideHealth Brochures

About Bi and Pansexual Health
About Gay Health
About Lesbian Health
About Non-Binary Health
About Trans Men Health
About Trans Women Health
Let's Get Protected! [brochure in English]
Vaccine information for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, concerning HPV, MPox, Influenza, and COVID-19.
(2023)
Protégeons-nous! [guide en français]
Les informations pour la communauté 2SLGBTQIA+ concernant VPH, la variole du singe, la grippe, et la COVID-19.
(2023)

prideHealth Writing Resources

Gender Inclusive Language for Forms, Research, Policy, Documentation
For reference in developing Nova Scotia Health / IWK Health forms, policy, research, and documentation.
prideHealth, September 2022

Courses for Health Care Providers about Gender-affirming Care

Community-Based Research Centre Online Programming for 2SLGBTQIA+ Health Care
Mainpro+® accredited courses for health care providers. You will need to create a free personal account in order to access the courses.

2SLGBTQIA+ Affirming Care Conference

prideHealth hosted a 2SLGBTQIA+ Affirming Care Conference in 2024 and 2023. This virtual conference was a FREE event for all Nova Scotia Health and IWK staff, co-hosted by prideHealth and the Nova Scotia Health/IWK Pride Network, with support from IWK Health, Nova Scotia Health, Mental Health and Addictions Health Promotion.

Conference presenters were internal and external speakers with diverse and intersecting lived experiences. For questions about the conference, send an email to prideHealth@nshealth.ca. Please refer to the FAQs, below.

FAQs for prideHealth Affirming Care Conference

Past Conferences - Reports and Recordings

2024

Conference Report

Conference Recordings

2023

Conference Report

Conference Recordings