The Community Care Team includes Social Workers who provide individuals and families in Eastern York Region with supportive, short-term counselling FREE OF CHARGE. The Social Workers can teach helpful strategies to cope with a range of issues: stress, separation, adjustment, grief, mental health issues, family challenges, addiction and substance use issues, challenges related to gender and sexual diversity, and more.
Bereaved Families York Region provides bereavement support services by trained volunteers and staff to individuals and families grieving the death of a loved one.
Salvation Army provides support to children and families in the form of shelter, clothing, and food. As well, they provide rehabilitation counselling to individuals battling addiction.
At Belinda’s Place, The Salvation Army provides basic needs, temporary housing, client-focused wraparound supports and follow up services to assist women who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. We help women find and keep housing and successfully reintegrate into the community.
The mental health day treatment program is a social rehabilitation service, designed to assist individuals who are experiencing mental illness, emotional distress, or a difficult life situation.
* offers individuals daily structure in a supportive, therapeutic setting * individualized treatment plans are designed in collaboration with the client with a focus on treatment and discharge planning
Mackenzie Health offers many outpatient programs and services for adults and families experiencing mental health challenges as well as an adult inpatient mental health unit.
Markham Stouffville Hospital has launched new services to support women’s health by providing therapies to improve quality of life. Using different methods, the clinic aims to improve women’s sense of personal well-being, strengthen focus and mental flexibility, manage difficult emotions, promote self-awareness and distinguish healthy from unhealthy coping.
These services are available to patients of MSH across all departments including childbirth, cancer care (oncology), surgery and mental health. Sessions include:
Art therapy group
Mindfulness-based stress reduction group
Interpersonal psychotherapy group
Postpartum depression
New Path offers a range of free child and youth mental health services. Counselling services are now available in person, by phone and online. Please call 705-725-7656 or email us info@newpath.ca to book an appointment. We will get you the mental health supports you need.
Kids Help Phone’s e-mental health services are here 24/7 for people across Canada.
Kids Help Phone’s non-judgmental, inclusive services are available to young people across Canada. This means we’re here for all kids, teens and young adults from coast to coast to coast.
If you contact Kids Help Phone’s youth support services as an adult, we’ll help you get the support you need. We may refer you to another service Wellness Together Canada, Crisis Text Line Canada (text 741741), etc.
Yellow Brick House provides emergency shelter, crisis counselling, as well as, parenting support including program for moms of infants and toddlers.
Legal information and support, Transitional and housing support, and Community service referrals
Located in Richmond Hill, the centre provides support, counsel and guides individuals and families from diverse backgrounds and faiths. Programs are focused on Immigrants and Refugees, including settlement services, Senior Programs, Wellness programs and an Integration Network Program. Check out the calendars for events in your own language.
Cedar Centre provides a unique and holistic approach to therapy, education and advocacy for those who have experienced trauma. Working from an anti-racist and anti-oppressive frameworks, serving all ages. We are committed to improving their lives through a trauma-specific therapy plan that is designed to meet each person’s unique needs, strengths and challenges.
Services include anything from counselling, to meal support to help with passing a citizenship test, throughout Toronto and Markham.
Find supports here for those touched by poverty, violence, abuse and unemployment. JF&CS reaches out into all corners of the community, delivering counselling services and educational programs to address these and other issues.
Free care for victims/survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault including emergency care following abuse or an assault, examination, testing, follow-up care, counselling and many other services as needed. Services are provided by health care professionals who are specially trained in forensics and trauma related to abuse and assault. The centre also provides counselling and support to family members and caregivers.
Sandgate offers a wide range of services designed to support and empower women and their children who wish to transition to a life free of violence. You will find a home-like environment including;
Food, clothing, linen, personal items;
Housing support;
Access to legal and financial clinics;
Identification clinics;
Employment supports;
Personal needs allowance;
Support groups; and,
Child and youth services.
Rose of Sharon offers multiple FREE core programs and services designed to meet the specific needs and interests of young mothers and their children.
When parents separate, they need to decide how they will take care of their children. They have to make important decisions about things. Find out more by reading this pamphlet. https://www.cleo.on.ca/sites/default/files/book_pdfs/custodyaccess.pdf
We are a resource and referral center and help connect people to registered agencies and then offer further assistance via their case workers. Delivery Hope program provides survivors assistance through product distribution. This includes clothing (women, children and sometimes men), housewares, toiletries, bedding and much more.
Resources include Crisis Counselling, Safety Planning, and case management for Women being exploited, and Human Trafficking.
