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COVID19 Meetings are held virtually during pandemic; visit them on FaceBook or email for updates.

Regular Service
Offers confidential support and information to individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual or two spirited and/or their parents, families and friends. Informal confidential meetings can be arranged to talk with a knowledgeable local contact.

• Works to create a society that respects diversity by providing education about sexuality and gender.
• Guest speakers possible.

Offers career development services and access to government funded employment programs.

Employment services include:

• One-on-one employment counselling
• Employment Resource Center
• Job Search, Interview and Win at Work Workshops
• 50+ Job Search Club - offers group information sessions and peer support to support mature workers. Geared to their specific needs around job loss, networking and interview stress.

Also offers fee-for-service GED Testing, Standard and Emergency First Aid & CPR Level C with AED, Smart Serve, Service Excellence and WHMIS.

Celebrates the history, courage, diversity and future of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Queer, Intersex and Two-Spirited (LGBTTQI2-S) communities.

Directly supports families of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder through the services of clinical professionals.

The Peterborough Chapter provides:

• advocacy to other community services including within the school system
• regularly organized social skills classes, special events, fundraisers and other outreach programs to support ASD families in the Peterborough Area - visit website for events calendar

Governed by the Chapter Leadership Council (CLC) who oversee operations, including monthly meetings, managing finances, establishing committees and reporting to Autism Ontario.

Parent/Caregiver Support Group - provides a safe and supportive environment for parents and caregivers of individuals with Autism to share their successes and challenges, ask questions and connect with other parents and caregivers. Group is facilitated by Autism Ontario's Family Support Coordinator in partnership with SnowFlake Therapy Services.

Adult Social Group - provides supported social opportunities and activities for adults who have a diagnosis of an Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Works to create awareness and understanding of Tourette Syndrome (TS) through education, advocacy and support.

Offers a variety of services to families and individuals affected by Tourette Syndrome and to the professionals who support them.
Services include:

• print and online resources
• virtual support groups and online forums
• opportunity to liaise with other professionals
• workshops designed to increase knowledge and understanding of Tourette Syndrome

Camp STiC Together - summer camp for children with Tourette Syndrome, takes place at Camp Maple Leaf in Ennismore

COVID19 Services available by phone, email, video conferencing.


Provides the following programs and services:

• Rehabilitation Counselling: one-on-one support for individuals and families to assist with their independence in the community including service coordination, continuous support, community links, and follow-up.
• Information Services: comprehensive information for clients, families, employers, community agencies, and governments in respect to living with a spinal cord injury or physical injury.
• Peer Support : offers someone who's been there who can act as a mentor and role model to encourage and sustain clients through the challenges they face * matches people who are newly injured, and their family members, to people who have lived experience with a spinal cord injury, and who understand
• Community Advocacy: assists communities to identify, reduce and eliminate barriers to full community participation and serves as a leader of education and awareness in the prevention of spinal cord injuries.
• Marketplace- platform for buying and selling equipment (i.e. wheelchairs, hospital beds, etc) Visit www.sciontario.org/marketplace
• Guest speakers for in-service training available

RSO is a volunteer run organization that operates to connect the queer, questioning, lesbian, bisexual, two-Spirit, transgender and gay community via events, website and event calendar.

• Involved in community activities such as on the organizing committee of Peterborough Pride.

The Family Supports program helps the families of children and young people who live with a developmental disability.

Family Support Coordinators assist families with service coordination and planning to ensure that each child receives the support needed to participate in the life of their family, school and community. During the years from 14 to 18 specific focus is given to the transitions from childhood to adolescence, and adolescence to adulthood.

Services include:

• providing information about community resources and services
• making referrals to other community organizations
• assisting with funding applications to programs such as Assistance to Children with Severe Disabilities and Passport
• bringing parents together to support one another
• providing help and information to parent groups
• advocating on behalf of people and their families as needed, particularly in schools and the community
• Helping families to find support in the community
• Helping families of students to put together their Individual Education Plan (IEP)

Also provides the Our Families are Strong private Facebook support group for parents and caregivers of people living with a developmental disability. Opportunities for families to learn, connect and share are offered through a private online Facebook group and educational events in the community.

Works to make lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, 2-spirit, queer and questioning (LGBTQ+) youth feel safe by providing them the space to be themselves and the tools to lead positive change in their schools, peer groups, and community.

Provides education through interactive workshops designed and delivered by youth to help educate everyone from 7th grade students to teacher candidates on the diversity of queer identities and how to create spaces to welcome and celebrate them.

Provides workshops geared towards specific service providers, such as nurses, counsellors, and police officers to ensure that LGBTQ+ youth are treated with respect in all areas of their lives.

Supports youth resilience and community building by hosting a weekly youth drop-in.

The youth ambassador program, the queeRAdicals, is active in community outreach, including delivering inclusivity trainings to local schools, service providers, and organizations.

Provides local support groups for family members, friends, and/or teens living with or who have been affected by someone's drinking.

COVID19 Community programs offered virtually at this time. Office staff available by phone or email. Resident Care Centre continues to provide services

Regular Service
Offers support and services to people of any age who are living with serious illness and grief and their caregivers. Services are designed to enhance the comfort, dignity and quality of life of individuals and families.

Services include:

• support in the home
• day hospice program
• 10 bed Resident Care Centre for end of life care
• variety of wellness programs and resources
• caregiver support
• extensive bereavement support for adults, children and teens

• Offers education and consultation support services to health care providers located in Peterborough, Northumberland County, Haliburton County and City of Kawartha Lakes
• includes a palliative pain and symptom management service for specialized palliative care support

Prostate cancer self-help support group offers:

• Monthly meetings providing a forum for personal discussion with others who have or have recovered from prostate cancer
• Medical specialists whose field relates to prostate cancer frequently give talks or lead discussions
• Surgeons, urologists, radiologists, nutritionists and counselors are often invited guest speakers
• Family and friends welcome

ABA based Services and Supports:

• help children and youth with ASD develop skills in the areas of behavior. management/emotional regulation, communication, social/interpersonal, and daily living
• provide education to parents/caregivers on how to apply ABA strategies to help their children maintain or generalize these skills.
• involves an assessment of the child/youth's strengths and needs (may include a functional assessment of behavior).
• may be provided for 2 to 4 hours per week with some flexibility.
• involves between 2 and 6 months of service in either group or individualized sessions depending on child/youth's identified needs.

Works to increase education and awareness of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)

• Provides information to families, caregivers, and individuals affected by the disorder.
• Provides and facilitates educational opportunities/training in the community.
• Caregiver Support Group meets each month.
• Support Group for Adults with FASD meets occasionally. Call for more information.

COVID19 Response
In-person meetings suspended * Visit website for updated information

Regular Service
An opportunity to meet with those who have experienced a stroke, and caregivers, to exchange information, engage in mutual support and encouragement, share personal experiences, maintain a positive attitude, learn about life after stroke.

• Chapter of the After Stroke program of March of Dimes Canada
• Staffing: Staff and volunteers

Raises awareness of Barnardo orphans and wards.

• Provides information and helps find ancestors who were Home Children.
• Tours of points of interest connected with Children of Barnardo are available, along with a lending library of Barnardo reading material.
• The organization helps any Home Child from any group find their family history.
• Responsible for new monument dedicated (September 2011) to all children who passed through the Hazelbrae Home.
• Monument is located at the former Queen Alexandra School, 180 Barnardo Avenue, Peterborough.

Provides medical care, dietary services and a range of support services for children with Type I and Type II diabetes and their families.

Healthcare team includes dietitian, nurse practitioners, pediatricians, registered nurses and social workers.

Offers:

• insulin pump program
• nutrition and feeding clinic
• personal health inprovement team clinic providing lifestyle support and including an exercise specialist
• transitional clinic to help adolescents and their families move to adult diabetes services

COVID-19
Programs in affiliate offices are suspended

• offering text-based live support for grieving people through Facebook, Instagram,Twitter and Zoom.
• Volunteers are all bereaved people trained by professionals to provide the service on all platforms @bfoprovincial

Regular Service
This organization works mainly with families who are grieving the loss of a child but also offers support services to anyone bereaved.

Support services include:

• one on one free counseling
• drop in support meeting the third Wednesday of each month,for anyone grieving
• lending library
• ​A memorial garden containing plaques bearing the names of lost children.
• To have a child's name remembered in this garden, contact Richard Jenkins 705-749-0019 May - Oct. and contact the office Nov - Apr.

Staffing: Volunteer

HD Resource Centre is offered through the Huntington Society of Canada Family Services.

Services for individuals and families affected by Huntington Disease include:

• support groups
• professional support
• education
• links to community services

Peterborough Chapter is a volunteer-led group who hold events to raise funds and awareness for Huntington Disease

Provides support, information, education and encouragement related to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), Fibromyalgia Syndrome and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities including:

• Most recent research on these illnesses
• methods for coping
• peer support through personal information and experience
• community information and other resources available such as CPP, EI, tax credits, and ODSP

Sufferers, family members, caregivers, friends and all interested persons are welcome to attend any meeting and/or access the extensive resource library during meeting times

Offers a cultural space for individuals with mental health and addictions issues to find help to move towards a healthier lifestyle.

• Programs offer one-on-one supportive counselling and consultation regarding treatment options and culturally based services and support groups, including wholistic healing and participation in cultural activities

Supports the reclamation and revitalization of men's responsibility to end violence perpetrated against Indigenous women and girls.

• Ensure access to Indigenous cultural knowledge and increase understanding of Traditional roles and responsibilities
• Increase resilience of men through support men and youth aged males to be empowered through acknowledging and resolving their own trauma
• Foster enhanced community wellness through the provision of effective culturally-based program service delivery
• One on one peer support and group activities to support men and male youth

COVID19 Office closed. Volunteers will check answering machine for messages. Meetings held virtually. Visit website for details.


12-step recovery from alcoholism program. Offers over 30 meetings per week at a wide variety of times and places. Meetings include women's groups, men's groups and youth groups. Individual anonymity is a high priority.

Provides speakers, films, information, pamphlets, support systems and counselling.

• Fundraising events include Walk to Make CF History, barbecues, fashion shows, Christmas Cards, bingos
• Guest speakers are available on any Cystic Fibrosis topic.

Support group for post polio survivors.

• Provides assistance and information for polio survivors and their relatives, friends and care givers
• Guest speakers
• Social activities
• Call Patrick for one-to-one support conversation