Volunteer with Niagara Reproductive Justice
Next meeting date:
Every Wednesday
6pm - 7pm
Zoom
(in person 3rd week of the month)
Email us to get involved!
volunteer@niagarareproductivejustice.com
What We Do
Niagara Reproductive Justice is a non-hierarchical community group that works to increase access to and awareness of sexual and reproductive health resources in Niagara. We were founded in 2019 to counter the anti-abortion activity in Niagara.
We are an Action Group of OPIRG.
Volunteering With Us
We meet virtually for an hour once a week to discuss our projects and ideas. The pace we work at and the things we work on are guided by the capacity and interest of the group. We have two primary focuses: monitoring and countering the anti-abortion activity in Niagara, and increasing abortion and reproductive/sexual healthcare access. We focus on each area in alternating weeks. If you’re more interested in one area than the other, you can attend meetings every other week.
Coming soon!
Coming soon!
Coming soon!
Niagara Reproductive Justice is not a registered non-profit or charity. We are a grassroots group of neighbors, friends, and community members. We work with OPIRG, a local registered non-profit, in order to apply for grants and for accountability practices. OPIRG is guided by a Board of Directors who are able to receive incident reports on behalf of NRJ volunteers and clients.
Coming soon!
Coming soon!
We are situated in Niagara and currently have members who live in St. Catharines, Welland, Niagara Falls, Oakville, Toronto, and Chicago. We do not have any physical location. We are a 100% volunteer-run community collective and our main source of funding is through individual donations. All of our work takes place remotely aside from some in person meetings that happens at a volunteer’s house, and when we host or attend community events as a team.
NRJ relies on some tech platforms like Zoom and Slack in order to communicate with one another and have meetings. If you can’t or don’t prefer to use the internet, NRJ is currently not the right group for you. You are NOT required to use social media to be part of NRJ.
We pay for a Zoom account that includes some auto-transcribed captions for meetings; however, the accuracy varies. For folks who are hard of hearing or deaf, our meetings may not be very accessible.
Children and people’s dependents are welcome at meetings, whether virtual or in-person.
For sure! Please email us at volunteer@niagarareproductivejustice.com and we’d be happy to chat more over email, over the phone, over Zoom, or grab a coffee in person!