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: Toronto ,
ON ,
2 Carlton Street Ste 701
Type(s) of Advocacy: Debt, Health, Housing and Tenants, Legal Assistance, Mental Health, Seniors and Elders, Violence
Telephone: 416-598-2656
Website: http://www.acelaw.ca
Hours:
M, T, W, F 9 am to 5 pm; Thursdays 1 to 5 pm
Advocacy Description: Free legal services for low income seniors in the Greater Toronto area. Scope of practice focused on legal issues particularly impacting on seniors including but not limited to health law, consent...
Tags: consumer law, elder abuse, health law, home care, long term care, mental capacity law, retirement home tenancies, tenancy law
Location: Toronto ,
ON ,
111 Richmond St. West
Suite 503
Suite 503
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Activists, Children and Youth, Legal Assistance, Multicultural, Violence
Telephone: 416.214.4747
Website: http://www.aclc.net/
Hours:
Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Switchboard reception: closes at noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays but the office remains open
Advocacy Description: It is funded by Legal Aid Ontario and its primary mandate is to engage in test case litigation in the areas of racial discrimination and anti-Black racism. The clinic also acts as an advocacy agency...
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: Toronto ,
ON ,
147 Queen Street East
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Addictions, Employment and Unemployment, Food and Foodbanks, Housing and Tenants, LGBTQ, Violence, Women
Telephone: (416) 369-1199
Website: http://www.fredvictor.org/
Advocacy Description: The Fred Victor Centre provides assistance to men and women who live in extreme poverty and are marginally housed or homeless and works to increase the options and resources available to people in...
Tags: emergency shelter, employment program, employment resource centre, homelessness, homelessness outreach, homelessness prevention, homelessness support, housing support, shelter, social service support, transitional housing, women's housing, women's shelter
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 ,
1266 Queen Street West
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Health, Housing and Tenants, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Assistance, Violence, Welfare, Workers
Telephone: 416-531-2411
Website: http://www.parkdalelegal.org
Advocacy Description: Parkdale Community Legal Services is a community legal clinic located on Queen Street in the west end of Toronto, Canada. They provide free legal advice, assistance and representation to low income...
Tags: Criminal Injury Compensation, ontario disability support program, Workers’ Compensation
Location: ,
ON
Type(s) of Advocacy: General Advocacy, Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Disability, Health, Immigrants and Refugees, Multicultural, Seniors and Elders, Violence, Women, Workers
Advocacy Description: Specialty clinics:
represent specific individuals (e.g., seniors, people living with HIV/AIDS)
deal with specific area of law
service clients throughout Ontario.
Some clinics also specialize in...
Tags: african canadians, chinese, correctional law, environmental law, HIV/AIDS, income security, industrial accident victims, injured worker, south asian, southeast asian, Spanish, workers' health, workers' safety'
