Skipping Stone

Skipping Stone is building an Alberta where everyone, regardless of gender identity or expression, has access to the services they need and receives the support, validation and love they deserve.

Skipping Stone continues to profoundly change the narrative around how to provide truly affirming, transformative and often life-saving care to trans and gender diverse youth, adults, and families. Their comprehensive care model which focuses on supporting individuals as whole, healthy, wonderful human beings is leading the way in Canada, having attracted national and international attention and acclaim when it comes to treating trans and gender diverse folks with the attention, dignity, and respect they deserve.

Their innovative approach brings community members, social workers, as well as mental health and medical professionals work together as a unified team to provide services from: access to peer mentoring and group programming to build capacity and community; to access to housing, food, income, and other supports to ensure they are safe add healthy; to access to trans affirming mental health and medical services.

Since 2017, they have connected with and changed the lives over 10,000 youth, adults and families across the province.