Clinic Mauve - Transforming integrated care and the health workforce for LGBTQIA+ migrant and racialized communities

To address the health workforce crisis, this grant aims to support the implementation science team (IST) situated within the Clinic Mauve (CM) at the Université de Montréal (UdeM). Launched in 2020 to address the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on LGBTQIA+ migrant and racialized communities, the CM provides intersectoral, community-based and integrated care for this population, especially Spanish and Arabic-speaking newcomers with language barriers, and those with complex physical and mental health care needs. Many are trans and non-binary people needing access to gender-affirming care. The CM also provides training to health care professionals and students. The CM's innovative care model was co-designed, implemented and evaluated by a team of researchers, students, practitioners and community workers, most of whom are part of systematically disadvantaged populations. This interdisciplinary initiative engages with health-related professions (family medicine, nursing, psychology, social work, etc.), as well as peer and community-based models of care (i.e. peer navigation). In addition to key health workers and managers situated within two family medicine groups, the CM is supported by UdeM's Vice-President for International and Community Partnerships (VPCIP) and Centre for Research on Public Health (CReSP) as well as the affiliated SHERPA University Institute (and associated regional health territory) and AGIR Montréal (LGBTQI+ migrant community organization). The CM has transformed into a social and research laboratory, fostering intersectoral collaborations across practice, training and research spheres. Led by the tripartite leadership team (researcher, health worker, health system decision-maker), this grant provides an opportunity to amplify the CM's implementation science research, thus contributing to building capacity and sparking collaboration from allied research teams and key stakeholders from across Canada and internationally (e.g. 2SLGBTQ+ Health Hub).