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Provincial Organizations
BGC St. John’s
The various Clubs of BGC Newfoundland and Labrador run programs tailored to the needs of the communities they serve. BGC encourages and empowers children and youth and helps them set a path for success.
Canadian Mental Health Association of Newfoundland and Labrador
Canadian Mental Health Association Newfoundland and Labrador facilitates access to the resources people need to maintain and improve mental health and community integration, build resilience, and support recovery from mental illness.
Coalition of Persons with Disabilities NL (COD NL)
COD NL is a provincial, cross-disability organization which advocates for an inclusive and equitable society for all Newfoundlanders and Labradorians living with disabilities.
Department of Children, Seniors and Social Development (CSSD)
CSSD supports individuals, families and communities in Newfoundland and Labrador in achieving improved health and social well-being and reduced poverty; and ensures the protection of children, youth and adults from abuse or neglect.
Empower, The Disability Resource Centre
Empower provides support, resources and opportunity for persons with disabilities to make informed choices about their lives. This organization runs a variety of programs and services to promote inclusion.
Memorial University of Newfoundland Student Union (MUNSU) Resource Centres
MUNSU operates seven resource centres. Each was established in recognition of the needs of students and operate under a mandate challenging oppression and discrimination on campus.
- International Student Resource Centre
- Intersections: A Resource Centre for Marginalized Genders
- MUN Disability Information Support Centre
- MUN SAGA (Sexual and Gender Advocacy Resource Centre)
- Student Parents Assistance & Resource Centre
- Students Older Than Average
- The Circle of First Nations, Métis and Inuit Students
Newfoundland-Labrador Human Rights Commission
The Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Commission is a free service which works to protect and promote human rights for the people of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Office of the Child and Youth Advocate
An independent office of the House of Assembly, the Advocate ensures children’s rights are respected and protected, by independently standing up for their rights and interests in dealing with child serving systems.
Public Legal Information Association of Newfoundland (PLIAN)
The Public Legal Information Association of Newfoundland and Labrador is a non-profit organization dedicated to public legal education and information. They provide services to the public, including a lawyer referral service, legal information line, developing plain language legal materials, delivering legal information presentations, facilitating free legal clinics, and operating a number of projects focusing on specific populations and areas of the law.
SeniorsNL
SeniorsNL is a non-profit, charitable, voluntary organization dedicated to promoting the independence and well-being of older adults in Newfoundland and Labrador.
SWAP (ACNL)
SWAP is Newfoundland and Labrador’s harm reduction/safe works program offered by the ACNL. They promote health and education for people who use drugs.
The AIDS Committee of Newfoundland and Labrador (ACNL)
ACNL is a provincial, community-based, non-profit, charitable organization committed to preventing the spread of HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), and related sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs) through education and supportive harm reduction-based programs and services.
The Association for New Canadians (ANC)
ANC is a non-profit, community-based organization delivering settlement and integration services to immigrants and refugees in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The John Howard Society of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.
The John Howard Society is a voluntary, non-profit agency providing intervention, residential, employment and related programs and services to adults and youth involved in the criminal justice system.
National Organizations
Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres
The Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres is a Pan Canadian group which focuses on the legal, social and attitudinal changes necessary to prevent, and ultimately eradicate, rape and sexual assault. It also advocates for social change regarding violence against women at the individual, the institutional and the political level.
DAWN Canada (Disabled Women’s Network of Canada)
DAWN Canada supports a wide variety of intersectional disabled women, including Indigenous women, 2SLGBTQQIA+, older women, women of colour or immigrant women who may encounter even more discrimination and barriers than normal.
PFLAG Canada
PFLAG Canada is a national charitable organization created by the parents of 2SLGBTQQIA+ people looking for help to support their loved ones. The organization works with 2SLGBTQQIA+ communities, including families, friends, allies and loved ones, to provide peer support, education, and advocacy.
The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC)
NWAC defends the rights, delivers programming to, and amplifies the perspectives of Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, transgender, and gender-diverse people in Canada, inclusive of First Nations, on and off reserve, status and non-status, disenfranchised, Métis and Inuit.
Federal Government
Women and Gender Equality (WAGE) Canada
WAGE Canada is a Federal Government department committed to advancing equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression through the inclusion of people of all genders, including women, in Canada’s economic, social, and political life.