The PEARS Project

Check out our updated resource guide! We have updated our list of resources to include a variety of counselling, financial, legal, medical, and culturally centred resources for intersectional survivor support. It is available in our linktree (found in our bio)!

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about anything included, please reach out! If you need help navigating resources, reach out via DM or come visit us during office hours. The PEARS team is here to support you.

We are so excited to introduce the executive team for the 2025-26 year! 💙✨🩵

These are our updated office hours for the fall semester 🍁 If these times don’t work for you and you’re interested in accessing peer support, the Survivor’s Closet, or other resources - DM or email us!

We are excited to be able to offer a variety of supports and resources in-office, ranging from the PEARS library to the Survivor’s Closet (more detail is available in the post!). Please don’t hesitate to reach out with questions or come visit us during office hours to learn more or to access support.

We are located in the Student Commons Building (Room 366) at 230 College St 💙🩵💙

CW: discussions of residential schools, settler colonialism, institutional violence, colonial violence, childhood sexual violence, gender based violence and more

Today is Orange Shirt Day, or the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This day honours and remembers survivors, victims, and anyone who was impacted by Residential Schools and their lasting, harmful legacies.

PEARS operates on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendy, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. This land was stolen from Indigenous people and dispossessed Indigenous people and communities through violent racialized and gender processes.

It is important to centre Indigenous peoples, perspectives, and knowledges as we continue to occupy this land. Challenging and breaking down gendered violence innately requires challenging and questioning of settler colonial systems and violence - violent gendered processes are entrenched with settler colonial, historically and in present day.

PEARS is excited to announce that we will be accepting Zine submissions for Roots and Branches starting on October 1st. 📇Submissions will close on Dec 31st. The form for submission will be available via the linktree in our bio. Send us an email or DM if you have questions! Can’t wait to see everyone’s submissions. ✨

UofT’s Sexual Violence Policy Review Team sent out an email to members of the UofT community for feedback on the ‘Policy’. The anonymous feedback form is open until Oct 7th.

You can find PEARS recommendations via our linktree in our three different policy review documents. The Policy is flawed and does not currently adequately support survivors - we urge all community members who are able to share feedback to push for change. Feedback can be submitted at uoft.me/SeptSVSH