Location:
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Crisis Services, Employment and Unemployment, Family, Food and Foodbanks, Health, Housing and Tenants, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Assistance, Mental Health, Seniors and Elders, Violence, Welfare, Women
Telephone: 211
Website: http://www.211ontario.ca/
Advocacy Description: 211Toronto.ca is the public, online version of the database used by information and referral specialists for the 211 telephone service.
Help Line and Website for easy access to community, social,...
Tags: help line
Location: Toronto ,
ON
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Children and Youth, Crisis Services, Disability, Employment and Unemployment, Family, Food and Foodbanks, Health, Housing and Tenants, Immigrants and Refugees, Mental Health, Multicultural, Violence, Welfare, Women
Telephone: 211
Other Telephone: 1-888-340-1001 (TTY)
Website: http://www.211toronto.ca
Advocacy Description: 211 Toronto is a Help Line and website which provides comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date information on services provided by nonprofit, community-based organizations or the public sector. In...
Tags: help line
Location: Lindsay ,
ON ,
64 Lindsay Street South
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Children and Youth, Crisis Services, Housing and Tenants
Telephone: (705) 328-0905
Website: http://aplacecalledhome.org/
Advocacy Description: Offers accommodation to homeless people through their two houses (McMurray House and Pinto House). Services families, single adults and couples with children. Services include 24-hour staffing, meals...
Tags: homelessness, outreach, shelter, support services
Location: Toronto ,
ON ,
489 College Street, Suite 503
Type(s) of Advocacy: Crisis Services, Women
Telephone: 416.323.9149
Other Telephone: 416.323.1361 (TTY)
Website: http://www.schliferclinic.com/
Advocacy Description: The Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic provides free and integrated legal, counselling, interpretation, information and referral services for women who have experienced violence – including partner...
Tags: counselling, interpretation, sexual abuse, sexual assault, survivors of violence, violence against women
Location: multiple cities ,
ON
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Crisis Services, Disability, Employment and Unemployment, Family, Health, Immigrants and Refugees, Mental Health, Multicultural, Welfare, Women, Workers
Advocacy Description: CASSA is a social justice umbrella organization working with Ontario’s diverse South Asian communities. They have an extensive service directory with listings of organizations from across Ontario.
Tags: African, childcare, children's aid, clinics, community centres, credit counselling, employment services, intercultural, multicultural, neighbourhood house, south asian, women's centre, women's shelter
Location: St. Catherines ,
ON ,
12 North Street
PO Box 575
PO Box 575
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Children and Youth, Crisis Services, Food and Foodbanks, Health
Telephone: St. Catherines: 905-685-1349
Other Telephone: Thorold: 905-227-9240
Website: http://www.communitycarestca.ca/
Advocacy Description: Community Care, St. Catharines & Thorold is a non-profit organization that provides comprehensive emergency services to those in need.
Services include but are not limited to food security,...
Tags: dental emergencies, emergency services, food bank, food programs, health, homelessness prevention, homelessness support, money management, skills development
Location: Thorold ,
ON ,
19 Albert Street West
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Children and Youth, Crisis Services, Food and Foodbanks, Health
Telephone: St. Catherines: 905-685-1349
Other Telephone: Thorold: 905-227-9240
Website: http://www.communitycarestca.ca/
Advocacy Description: Community Care, St. Catharines & Thorold is a non-profit organization that provides comprehensive emergency services to those in need.
Services include but are not limited to food security,...
Tags: dental emergencies, emergency services, food bank, food programs, health, homelessness prevention, homelessness support, money management, skills development
Location: Kingston ,
ON ,
302 Victoria St.
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Crisis Services, Debt, Housing and Tenants, Mental Health, Violence, Welfare, Women
Telephone: 613-545-9640
Website: http://www.dawnhouse.ca
Hours:
open 24 hours daily 365 days a year
Advocacy Description: Advocacy support, counselling, meals, personal hygiene items, clothing and household items provided.
Location: ,
Caledon Community Services 18 King St.E., Bolton, ON L7E 1E8
- at Mel Lloyd Centre 167 Centre Street, Shelburne, ON L0N 1S1
- at Mel Lloyd Centre 167 Centre Street, Shelburne, ON L0N 1S1
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Children and Youth, Crisis Services, Family, Violence, Women
Telephone: 519-941-HELP
Other Telephone: 905-584-HELP, TTY: 519-942-1651
Website: http://www.familytransitionplace.ca/
Advocacy Description: Provides shelter and counselling to abused women and their children and delivers skill-building violence prevention workshops to youth and adults in Caledon and Dufferin.
Tags: child protection advocacy, men fleeing abuse, women fleeing abuse, women fleeing violence, women's emergency services, women's shelter, women's support services
Location: Orangeville ,
ON ,
20 Bredin Pkwy
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Children and Youth, Crisis Services, Family, Violence, Women
Telephone: 519-941-HELP
Other Telephone: 905-584-HELP, TTY: 519-942-1651
Website: http://www.familytransitionplace.ca/
Advocacy Description: Provides shelter and counselling to abused women and their children and delivers skill-building violence prevention workshops to youth and adults in Caledon and Dufferin.
Tags: child protection advocacy, men fleeing abuse, women fleeing abuse, women fleeing violence, women's emergency services, women's shelter, women's support services
Location: Richmond Hill ,
ON ,
10271 Yonge St
Type(s) of Advocacy: Crisis Services, Housing and Tenants, Legal Assistance
Telephone: (905) 713 2696
Other Telephone: (416) 410-6051
Website: http://www.housinghelpcentre.org/
Advocacy Description: The Housing Help Centre (HHC) maintains a housing registry to assist individuals in securing affordable accommodation in the rental market. The Community Support program is a source of integrated...
Tags: counselling, crisis counselling, homelessness prevention, housing registry, housing support, ID clinic, social service support
Location: London ,
ON ,
PO BOX 2801 Station A
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Crisis Services, Employment and Unemployment, Family, Food and Foodbanks, Welfare, Women
Telephone: (519) 438-8676
Website: http://www.execulink.com/~life/
Advocacy Description: LIFE*SPIN provides information, support and community-based programs to low-income Londoners.
Our front-line services deal with the immediate crises and problems faced by low-income people,...
Tags: food security, free store, homelessness prevention, mediation, poverty advocacy, poverty prevention, women's housing, women's resource centre
Location: St. Catherines ,
ON ,
216-479a CARLTON STREET
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Addictions, Crisis Services, Disability, Employment and Unemployment, Health, Housing and Tenants, Immigrants and Refugees, Mental Health, Prisoners, Seniors and Elders, Violence, Welfare, Workers
Telephone: 905-934-2233
Hours:
Hours: BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Advocacy Description: WE PROVIDE FREE ADVOCACY WITH GOVERNMENT OFFFICES (O.D.S.P., ONTARIO WORKS, WSIB) ALSO PROVIDE COUSELLING FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH ADDICTIONS. ALSO FAMILY COUNSELLING. WORKING WITH IMMIGRANTS AND...
Location: Toronto ,
ON ,
1499 Queen ST W
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Activists, Addictions, Children and Youth, Crisis Services, Employment and Unemployment, Family, Food and Foodbanks, Health, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Multicultural
Telephone: 416-537-2262
Website: http://parc.on.ca/
Advocacy Description: The Parkdale Activity – Recreation Centre is a drop-in community centre that imagines a world where extreme poverty no longer exists; where everyone lives with dignity, safety and enough resources...
Tags: anti-poverty, drop-in centre, employment resources, food security, healthcare outreach, homelessness prevention, housing assistance, parkdale, poverty outreach, poverty prevention
Location: Chatham ,
ON
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Addictions, Children and Youth, Crisis Services, Family, Food and Foodbanks, Housing and Tenants, Welfare
Telephone: 519-354-1430
Hours:
9 to 4 Monday to Friday
Advocacy Description: Homelessness and Emergency Housing, evictions, Landlord/TenantMediation, Landlord Registry, Advocasy, Utility Crisis, referrals to appropriate programs and agencies, 24/7 After Hours Assistance...
Location: Toronto ,
ON ,
519 Church Street
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Activists, Children and Youth, Crisis Services, Health, Housing and Tenants, Legal Assistance, LGBTQ, Seniors and Elders, Women
Telephone: 416-392-6874
Website: http://www.the519.org/
Hours:
Monday-Friday: 9:00 am - 10:00 pm
Saturday: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Advocacy Description: The 519 has over 300 groups using meeting space, providing community services and offering self help programmes. There are trans meal programs, an ID clinic, homelessness outreach, legal clinic,...
Location: Thunder Bay ,
ON ,
86 S. Cumberland St.
c/o Kinna-aweya Legal Clinic
c/o Kinna-aweya Legal Clinic
Type(s) of Advocacy: Activists, Crisis Services, Welfare
Telephone: 807-344-2478
Website: http://www.kalc.ca/tbejc-1.htm
Advocacy Description: The Thunder Bay Economic Justice Committee was formed in January of 2003 as a community response to the recommendations resulting from the Kimberly Rogers Inquest.
OBJECTIVES
-Provide an opportunity...
Tags: economic justice, poverty advocacy
Location: Toronto ,
ON ,
74 Firvalley Court
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Addictions, Children and Youth, Crisis Services, Family, Seniors and Elders, Welfare, Women
Telephone: 416-694-1138
Website: http://www.wardenwoods.com/
Advocacy Description: Warden Woods Community Centre provides a range of services for children and youth, seniors, intravenous drug users, and homeless people. The Centre also provides crisis intervention and support...
Tags: children and youth programs, crisis intervention, drugs and alcohol, intravenous drug users, seniors' services, seniors' support services
Location: Welland ,
ON ,
26 East Main Street
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Children and Youth, Crisis Services, Employment and Unemployment, Housing and Tenants, Immigrants and Refugees, Workers
Telephone: Welland: 905-732-5337
Other Telephone: Niagara Falls: 905-356-2249
Advocacy Description: Since 1976 the Welland Heritage Council and Multicultural Centre has assisted thousands of immigrants overcome barriers to integration and watched with pride as they build new lives for themselves...
Tags: emergency housing, immigration services, settlement counselling
Location: Niagara Falls ,
ON ,
5485 Victoria Avenue
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Children and Youth, Crisis Services, Employment and Unemployment, Housing and Tenants, Immigrants and Refugees, Workers
Telephone: Welland: 905-732-5337
Other Telephone: Niagara Falls: 905-356-2249
Advocacy Description: Since 1976 the Welland Heritage Council and Multicultural Centre has assisted thousands of immigrants overcome barriers to integration and watched with pride as they build new lives for themselves...
Tags: emergency housing, immigration services, settlement counselling
Location: Toronto ,
ON ,
1651 Keele Street
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Crisis Services, Disability, Employment and Unemployment, Family, Health, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Assistance, Multicultural, Seniors and Elders
Telephone: (416) 653-5400
Website: http://www.ycservices.com/
Advocacy Description: York Community Services provides integrated health, legal, counselling and community services to residents of the former City of York in Central West Toronto. Established in 1973, we serve people of...
Tags: community health centre, counselling services, immigrant services, legal clinic, people living with disabilities, seniors' services
