Dial 2-1-1. Our helpline is answered by real people 24/7 and service is available in 150+ languages.
Programs include:
- Voluntary financial trusteeship
- Ongoing assessments
- Coordination of required services
- Conflict resolution
- Crisis prevention
- Housing supports
- Discharge planning
- Referral to community resources
- Provides full credit counselling services including assistance with spending plans and budgeting
- Helps establish debt management and repayment plans
- Provides tips on credit and borrowing, rights and responsibilities, and bankruptcy information
- Offers a financial coaching program
- Conducts financial literacy training
- Business restructuring
- Provides full credit counselling services including assistance with spending plans and budgeting
- Helps establish debt management and repayment plans
- Provides tips on credit and borrowing, rights and responsibilities, and bankruptcy information
- Offers a financial coaching program
- Conducts financial literacy training
- Business restructuring
- Provides a direct form of funding that can be used by individuals with developmental disabilities and their families to obtain support services from Community Living
- Caregiver respite
- Community participation supports
- Person-centred planning
Food bank can be accessed once a month. Delivery of food available to housebound individuals.
Provides emergency financial assistance to individuals and families for expenses related to housing and health including utility and rental arrears, medical and dental expenses.
Works cooperatively with the Table Food Kitchen, Salvation Army, Knights of Columbus, Faith Baptist Church and the District of Muskoka Community Services to find resources for those in need. Also provides budget counselling.
Christmas hamper program: provides food hamper, food voucher and gift cards for each child. Families without children receive food hamper and food voucher. Hampers can be picked up at St Mary's. Hampers will also be delivered by the Knights of Columbus for those unable to pick up .
- Provides full credit counselling services including assistance with spending plans and budgeting
- Helps establish debt management and repayment plans
- Provides tips on credit and borrowing, rights and responsibilities, and bankruptcy information
- Offers a financial coaching program
- Conducts financial literacy training
- Business restructuring
- Assists clients with a wide variety of issues related to credit and debt issues
- Offers an alternative to bankruptcy
- Hosts a wide variety of public speaking seminars
- Budget Counselling
- Third Party Advocacy
- Intervention
- Debt Management
- Teaches budgeting techniques
- Offers one on one sessions
- Provides full credit counselling services including assistance with spending plans and budgeting
- Helps establish debt management and repayment plans
- Provides tips on credit and borrowing, rights and responsibilities, and bankruptcy information
- Offers a financial coaching program
- Conducts financial literacy training
- Business restructuring
- temporary food assistance
- support during times of crisis
- budget counselling
- advocacy
- referral services
- practical and spiritual counselling
- Christmas Assistance program with applications available mid-October through November
- Thrift Store 649 Balm Beach Rd has affordable clothing and household items for sale.
- Street Outreach Ministry - bringing help to homeless and at risk people
- debt settlement
- credit counselling
- consumer proposals
- bankruptcy solutions
- business solutions
Free reports: 1-800-465-7166
Visit Website
Prepares credit history files for commercial clients
Online resources, educational materials and products
- mediation between debtor and creditor
- consumer debt repayment programs
- consumer credit education including online resources
Office: 416-228-3328 ; 416-228-DEBT
French (SOS Dettes): 1-866-615-1226
Visit Website
- personal money management counselling
- online resources on consumer debt and money management
- www.InspireFinancialLearning.ca -- financial literacy programs and tools for teachers, students and parents
Offering services around:
- consumer education
- budgeting
- behaviours around money
- strategies to reduce financial stress and meet financial goals
- helps with creating a spending plan to manage living expenses, get finances back on track, consolidate debts in one monthly payment, save thousands of dollars in interest, and stop collection calls from creditors
- provides alternatives to filing for bankruptcy
Services include:
- Assessment of income and expenses
- Money management advice
- Credit Counselling
- Budgeting assistance
- Debt management program
- Advocacy
- Public education, in-house or out in the community
Intake for the Ontario Electricity Support Program (OESP):
- qualifications for reduction on electricity costs
- establishment services
- counseling and assistance in immigration procedures
- application for various visas, for permanent residency, work permit, citizenship, sponsorship, etc.
- oaths
- affirmations
- affidavits
- information and advice on immigrant and refugee rights
- guidance on judicial procedures
- defense of rights on various issues
- in-home doctor visits
- nursing and medical services at home
- daycare services
- job search assistance
- job placement and internship
- support for creating and starting a business
- support for training and studies
- counselling services
- rehabilitation and monitoring of probation for minors
- radicalization prevention
- housing support services
- social activities
- interpretation and document translation
- language instruction
- placement assistance for volunteering in Africa and Canada
- financial and administrative assistance for funerary services
- maintenance of a directory for professionals and business men in Canada
- home visits
- transportation and accompaniment
- physical activity
- meditation and relaxation sessions
- foot care
- social outings
- social housing management
- budget management
- employment support
- family support
- financial and administrative support
Offering services around:
- consumer education
- budgeting
- behaviours around money
- strategies to reduce financial stress and meet financial goals
Stores and maintains credit information about individual Canadian consumers for use by members of the credit reporting agency
* provides credit reports to individuals upon request
* provides information about fraud prevention and assistance
Consumer Website: ocs.transunion.ca provides access to Consumer Disclosure Report, the option to add/modify a Potential Fraud Alert, and open up an Online Dispute
* also provides educational resources and tools to help gain a clear understanding of credit history and the impact of financial behaviour, and guard against identity theft and financial fraud
Credit Report: individuals may obtain their Consumer Disclosure Report (complete account of all the information on your credit report) free of charge online, by mail, in person or by phone
Credit Dispute: individuals who do not recognize information on their credit report, or believe an item may be inaccurate, may request a free investigation
* credit information may be disputed, or personal information updated, online, by phone or by mail (see website for form)
- obtain a copy of their Credit Report (personal credit history, credit check)
- call if a consumer has been denied credit, submit a dispute
- initiate corrections to errors in their Credit Report