Arbor Morris

I have been advocating and supplying supports for rural and urban queers, with life experience accessing spaces as a service user and being neurodivergent I see gaps and support needs that may not be being met. With an open mind and priding myself on continuous self education, i help work towards an inclusive and welcoming space by asking the uncomfortable questions needed to get there for the service users.

With active listening skills and counselling support training through a social service worker degree at George Brown and a lifetime of loved experience, my goal is to work towards bridging community services with community and create queer-mmunity in it's purist form

I currently work at Western University within the Indigenous Student Centre as a mental health counselor, creating wellness programming and providing mental health support and access to our indigenous student. I also currently work very closely with the Equity Diversity and Inclusion department at Western University in the creation of the First ever Western 2SLGBTQ+ Pride Guide to provide western students, faculty, staff and parents of students access to information and resources to ease and bridge the process towards unanswered questions, those who are coming into their identity or is wanting to explore, people furthering support education and allyship.

I have also been working as a consultant at the Youth Wellness Hub as a Rural 2S-LGBTQ+ consultant/ facilitator where I have helped run a peer support group from March to August of 2022 and March to August of 2023 for youth of the Rural Haliburton and Minden County where I supported youth coming out to their parents, supported a pride booth with staff members at the Hub and provided support towards bettering LGBT+ access at the school and within there GSA. our main goal was providing supports and friendship between queer youth who felt safe to access the space but not safe enough to come out as LGBTQ+ but were open to hanging out in a safe space with other youth who happened to be queer, by providing this space we had many youth who came into their identities, helped support each other and supply tips and tricks while also provided parental education and housing support efforts between their own resources and support systems

Social Services Work Program, George Brown College, Toronto Ontario