Minorities

In 2007 the Trent Women's Centre commissioned a project through the Trent Centre for Community Based Education for a student to perform a needs assessment of the trans community at Trent University and within the city of Peterborough. The project outlined that the organization would like to assess how they are currently addressing needs of the trans community and discover ways in which they could improve serviceability to the community.

At the request of the Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre (KSAC), this report was completed to evaluate diversity among the Centre's pool of volunteers. After deciding on a set of categories (race, culture, language, age, sexual orientation, physical disability, religion and class) as a definition of 'diversity' the authors of this report carried out research at KSAC and the larger Peterborough community through both interviews and surveys.