CAAT

What should community-led research focus on next? We want to hear from you. 💬
CAAT is bringing together community members to help shape the future of our research. Through a community focus group, you'll have the opportunity to share your experiences, identify the issues that matter most, and help set priorities for future community-based research.

Whether you're a newcomer, LGBTQIA+, living with HIV, a service provider, advocate, or someone passionate about improving health equity, your voice can help guide where we go next.

📍 Focus groups (approx. 1.5 hours) will take place in August 2026 with a $100 honoraria provided
📧 Interested? Email [email protected] by August 14, 2026 to learn more and sign up.

📢 The Rainbow Resilience Needs Assessment Report is now available.
Over the past year, we partnered with LGBTQ+ immigrants, refugees, newcomers, and non-status (IRNN) individuals, alongside service providers across Southern Ontario, to better understand the barriers communities face when accessing HIV, HCV, sexual health, and related health and social services.

Drawing on the experiences of 198 participants and 31 partner organizations, this report highlights key challenges, community-informed solutions, and opportunities to build more affirming and culturally responsive systems of care.

Swipe through to explore some of the key findings, and visit our website (www.caat.link) to read the full report.

Thank you to everyone who shared their experiences and made this work possible. 💜

Join CAAT and HALCO in an informative session about transitioning from Permanent Residency to Citizenship as we discuss eligibility, how to calculate physical presence, required documents and more! Scan the QR code or click the link in our linktree to register today!

Join the CAAT community!

Become a member ahead of our Annual General Members’ Meeting by completing the membership form.

Scan the QR code or head to the link in our bio to get started.

ON-TRACK (Ontario Network for Trials, Research, and Advancement in Capacity-Building for HIV/STBBIs) is a clinical trials training and mentorship platform designed to strengthen HIV and sexually transmitted and blood-borne infection (STBBI) research capacity in Ontario and across Canada.

Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, early-career investigators, and clinical research professionals are encouraged to apply to the academic stream. Applications are open until July 22.

Visit the ON-TRACK website to learn more about the platform and visit the Apply webpage to learn more about the application process.

Some more highlights from our Pride event 🌈 Our amazing panel spoke to the importance of visibility and loudness, not keeping ourselves in small rooms but taking to the streets and establishing our own spaces like the Village so that individuals, especially newcomers, can recognize and join their community — a brilliant example of why we need to protect Our People & Our Pride ☀️

Some more highlights from our Pride event 🌈 Our wonderful drag performers brought down the house ☀️

Some more highlights from our Pride event 🌈 Our wonderful drag performers brought down the house ☀️

Some more highlights from our Pride event 🌈 We also got to learn from CAAT staff as they delivered sexual health workshops for the group ☀️

Some more highlights from our Pride event 🌈 Taking to the streets to reclaim our Pride!

Prepare for the Canadian workforce with this Spanish-language workshop series! From resume-building to insurance coverage, learn what you need to succeed as a worker and/or student new to Ontario.

Sunday was a powerful reclamation of what Pride means to our communities — not a sanitized corporate party, but a liberatory movement emerging from community resistance & solidarity. Thank you to all who came and marched with us. Stay tuned for more from the event 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Join the CAAT team 💜 We're hiring a program coordinator for Pathways to HOPE -- if you're passionate about newcomer women's linkage to HIV care and treatment, apply now!

Come join us at Oahas on Monday the 15th for a pride BBQ lunch full of fun, games, and sexual health knowledge 🌈 Play bingo, win prizes and get tested with Black CAP, CAAT, Casey House, Oahas, PASAN, RPCHC, and Tungasuvvingat Inuit. We hope to see you there!