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TIH engages in regular and
constant outreach and
advocacy services for the
Trans community in the Valley of the Sun.
We do speaking engagements and meetings
with individuals, groups, and organizations at
all levels, from for profit to non profit, and we
are recognized as experts in the field of
Trans lives and how to handle trans people.
We are the only organization in the Valley of
the Sun to engage in this sort of active
outreach on behalf of trans people that is run
by trans people.
This Is H.O.W. is supported entirely through
the small dollar donations of people just like
you. Our staff is not paid for the efforts ²
they do it out of love and admiration for the
community.
All donations are tax deductible, as TIH is a
501(C)3 charitable organization that¶s been
around for five years and helped hundreds of
trans people through their transition.
You can make a difference yourself ² 20
dollars a month can significantly change the
lives of trans people here in the Valley.


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§ Providing expert assistance with
transition care.

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This Is H.O.W. is a five year old, 501(c)3 Trans individuals suffer from tremendous social TIH has a wide variety of programs and services
organization devoted to the needs of trans stigma and discrimination. Recently, a report has that we offer to the Trans community in the Valley
people in the Valley of the Sun. demonstrated that trans individuals are of the Sun.
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All the needs, and all the trans people. We
are all trans all the time, and we are
recognized by organizations throughout the
Valley as the leading experts in trans related
issues and services.
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A six month program that enables trans individuals to
gain the skills and tools needed to live in the world as
From being evicted for being trans to being fired
themselves.
or denied a job for being trans, the impact of such
has led to a large percentage of the trans 


Emergency, short term (3 nights maximum) shelter for
community existing in an underground economy
all trans individuals.
or subsisting on government assistance.
 


A series of support and discussion groups that deal in
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both general and specific needs.
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individual.
TIH has a strong relationship with multiple social
service providers, and we help trans people navigate
Trans people are multiple times more likely to
the sometimes confusing and challenging labyrinth of
commit suicide than the general population. them.
 
Trans people have a rate of substance abuse five
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Our motto is life made better, which
represents the sum of our goals for everyone
we work with.


Our basic philosophy holds that the process
of transition ² which is going from point A to
to twelve times higher than the general
population.
And all of these things are due to the pressure of
a society that chooses to deny them medical care
they are in desperate need of.
Combined with this, the process of transition puts
trans people into what is clinically known as a
TIH holds, both on its own and in partnership with other
agencies, various seminars and classes that explain
the history of trans people and the nature of the
medical, social, and legal systems that apply to trans
lives.
 
A series of classes and courses on self care, from
the basics of shopping and routine health care, to
nutrition and daily activities.
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crisis period in their lives, which can have
a crisis period in an individual¶s life. This is Comportment and presentation are key concerns
negative impact on their ability to function in
most readily summed up by the oft heard for many trans folk, and we provide basics in
society.
phrase ³finding one¶s self´. voice, carriage, and style.
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developed tools and methods over the last five
years that make us unique and experts on trans
lives.
Our outreach and advocacy work takes us into
places where trans lives are not well understood,
and we do education and mediation for
individuals and companies that ultimately enable
trans people to live a life of pride and equality.