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Temporarily closed due to COVID - call Toll Free 1-800-518-0000 or email info@chs.ca for more information on virtual services

Offers part-time students an equal opportunity for academic success

Provides the following for classes:

• Assistive Listening Device
• Computerized Notetakers
• Sign Language Interpreters

Temporarily closed due to COVID - call Toll Free 1-800-518-0000 or email info@chs.ca for more information on virtual services

• Provides American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation - spoken English services
• Offers on-site or video remote interpreting (VRI) services
• Offers pre-booked daytime and emergency interpretation services

Will provide interpreters for various situations, including:

• Job interviews
• Medical appointments
• Business meeting
• Giving evidence in court
• Arranging a mortgage
• In crisis in a hospital, shelter, or police station

• Provides an immersion language program/site that houses Sagamok Anishnawbek history and serves as a publishing house for community language resource development
• Offers language sessions through speakers and elders fluent in Anishnaabemowin
• Provides Anishnaabemowin language resources to all age groups, including books, cds, audio videos, newspapers, coloring books, and dictionaries

Offers the following:

• Cultural programming
• Language immersion
• Language instruction
• Transcribing services (historical)
• Translation services

Accredited and certified by the Canada Translation Bureau, Public Works, Immigration and Refugee Board, and other agencies of the Government of Canada in a variety of specialties including:

• certified Spanish translations, interpretation, and transcriptions
• remote telephone interpreting
• simultaneous and consecutive interpreting in conference or court
• translation of technical web sites, magazines, books and catalogues
• translation of documents required for immigration to Canada such as, driver's license, birth certificates, criminal reference checks, marriage certificates etc.
• FOR TRANSLATION SERVICES leave a detailed message of the services needed, including attached copies of the files requiring certified/regular translations
• FOR INTERPRETING SERVICES leave a detailed description of service required, dates, time and place, conditions required, the subject and related information of the interpreting

Member of the Simcoe County Local Immigration Partnership Council (SCLIP); a community partnership focused on the development of settlement strategies for newcomers while promoting positive relationships, opportunity, and use of local resources effectively

COVID19 -- full-time in-person services have resumed, Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm; call 416-533-8545 or email info@spanishservices.org; appointments only - no walk-ins


Settlement Program

• information, counselling and referral
• assistance with completing government and social services application forms
• ESL classes
• commissioner of oaths
• interpretation and translation services
• monthly settlement workshops

Violence Against Women (VAW) Program

• individual crisis counselling and group counselling by telephone or in person
• support groups for isolated women and their children
• information and orientation about legal rights
• assistance leaving the abusive home, finding transitional housing and applying for social assistance

Volunteer Program

Volunteer opportunities with ESL classes, food security assistance and interpretation and translation assistance

Seniors Program

• art-based workshops
• informational workshops

Legal Clinic, see separate record

HIV and AIDS Prevention Services, see separate record

Settlement Services

• orientation to life in Ontario; information on immigration issues
• accessing government resources including social assistance, income security, child tax benefits
• assistance with search for housing and social housing
• emotional support

Helping Our Newcomers Prepare for Employment/Entrepreneurial Success (HOPES) Program: resettlement stress support, education, skills and experience support

LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada): provides basic English skills in English, upon assessment by YMCA of Greater Toronto --see separate entry

Language Instruction Giving Hope to Trauma Survivors (LIGHTS) Program: alternative language program that provides functional English as a second or additional language (ESL/EAL) instruction to vulnerable newcomers who experience emotional, cognitive, or academic barriers to learning in traditional English classes

Provides programs and services to Lao communities across Ontario

Services

• information and referral including employment
• settlement and counselling
• translation and interpretation
• documentation and form filling
• social and cultural events
• community radio program, sports activities
• advocacy, community development and volunteer recruitment
• annual music and cultural festival

COVID19 In-person and virtual services available; phone and virtual counselling to frontline health workers and their families, and others members of the public, in Ontario; also assists permanent residents, convention refugees, student visa and work permit holders with Employment Insurance (EI)and Canada Emergency Resource Benefit (CERB) applications

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Linguistically and culturally sensitive counselling and settlement services for individuals and families

Counselling and Psychotherapy
Individual, group, couple, marital and family counselling and mental health psychotherapy, for issues such as elder abuse, family violence, wife assault, male batterers, incest, sexual assault, offenders, bereavement, problem gambling, substance abuse; crisis intervention; referrals to community partners as necessary

• consultation for human service providers
• satellite offices (limited hours, by appointment only) in Toronto (602 Queen St W), Markham (5665 14th Ave), Mississauga (720 Burnhamthorpe Rd W, Unit 2), and Unionville (600 Village Pkwy)

Family programs, including parenting and family life education, and youth counselling and leadership development

Partner Assault Response (PAR)
12 week group education and counselling program on domestic violence and non-abusive ways of resolving conflict

• victims/partners of the offender provided with support including safety planning, referrals to community resources, and information on offender's progress
• group counselling in Cantonese, Mandarin and Vietnamese

Settlement Program
Orientation, needs and eligibility assessments, interpretation and translation; information and referral topics include immigration, issues of concern to refugees and foreign domestic workers, citizenship, social assistance benefits, legal aid, housing, child care, English classes, and education and employment training

• computer access
• job search and employment counselling
• assistance in accessing services

Housing and Transitional Support Program
Counselling, information and referrals, crisis intervention and case management for women who have experienced violence, and their children

• community services information on issues such as housing, legal, financial, health care, immigration, children's services
• settlement support including assistance setting up safety plan, ongoing counselling and support

COVID19 -- Offices closed until further notice

• hearing aid clinics open by appointment only
• core services offered virtually continuing to provide emergency support services
• Emergency Interpreting Services 1-866-518-0000, TTY 1-877-215-9530, urgent@chs.ca, SMS/Text 416-712-6637 (charges may apply)
• Deaf-Blind Intervening Services 1-866-518-0000, TTY 1-877-215-9530, Allan Wareham awareham@chs.ca

Multiservice agency for adults who are Deaf, Deafened, or hard of hearing

• audiology and speech-language pathology
• communication devices
• hearing aid services and hearing tests
• support for coping with hearing loss
• American Sign Language (ASL) classes for individuals and businesses

CHS Interpreting Services -- professional ASL interpreters for medical, legal, business, employment, social and government services

Emergency Interpreter Services -- sign language interpreters for health or mental health emergencies

CONNECT Counselling Services -- counselling for children, youth, adults who are culturally deaf, oral deaf, deafened, hard-of-hearing and their families: counselling around mental health issues, addiction, relationships, domestic violence, or other serious challenges

General Support Services -- support for culturally deaf, oral deaf, deafened, and hard-of-hearing people to help people overcome language and cultural barriers in everyday living situations: case management, referrals, supportive counselling, consumer advocacy, short-term intervention

Hearing Care Counselling -- support for hard-of-hearing adults 55+ who are having difficulty with hearing loss, or younger adults with other disabilities as well as hearing loss, requiring home-based services: home visits, education, counselling, communication devices

Educational Support Services -- note takers, sign language interpreters and assistive devices for part time postsecondary students

Also site for head office

COVID19 24-hour crisis line, telephone counselling and virtual programs available; restrictions and modifications for some programs; instruction provided to assist in online participation, and tablets available for lending to seniors without devices; visit TUTFS website for details, including registration information

Telephone Counselling
Immediate emotional support, crisis intervention or suicide prevention

• links to other appropriate emergency services
• face-to-face individual, group and family counselling
• community outreach counselling and visitation for clients facing barriers to accessing services
• information and referral
• translation and interpretation
• counselling education and volunteer training program
• public education and awareness
• health promotion, including recreation and social activities

Telephone Crisis Intervention Services
24-hour emotional support for individuals experiencing distress, grief, conflict, depression or other crisis

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In-person Counselling Services
Anonymous, confidential counselling for individuals, groups, couples and families

Children's Programs

• Little Steps, Big Steps for kindergarten to grade 6
• homework club
• summer camp

Health Programs

• home hospice program and palliative care provided by trained volunteers
• healthy lifestyle workshops
• smoke-free education for youth
• diabetes prevention program
• visitation for community members who are ill

Parenting Programs

• Focus on Early Years and Mothers
• Focus on Fathers
• parenting skills workshops, including workshop with parents and their children

Seniors Programs

• English café
• reassurance program including counselling and visitation
• outreach services
• recreation including singing, art and digital storytelling classes
• online virtual seminars such as Sing-A-Long Musical Class, Expressive Art Class, Dance Class

Violence Prevention Education
Anger management and conflict resolution classes and workshops

Youth Programs

• employment seminars, career development, leadership training, life skills workshops
• Mind and Motion Program, 2-weeks summer volunteering (August) retreat
• tobacco-free campaign program
• facilitation skills workshop
• mentoring program
• recreational activities

Interpreters, including interpreters for women who are victims of domestic violence and sexual violence, as well as those who have been sexually exploited through human trafficking

• certified translations
• interpreter training
• language testing
• language consulting
• social enterprise

COVID19 -- Service available; check Facebook page for updates

• association of ASL-English Interpreters, Deaf Interpreters, LSQ-French Interpreters
• professional development and networking opportunities
• acts as advisor to service providers, public education and advocacy
• for listing of of OASLI interpreters, go to Canadian Association of Sign Language Interpreters (CASLI) website, go to Advanced Search and select OASLI, click www.casli.ca/directory

Make Islamic resources fully accessible to the Deaf through a variety of services including:

• raising awareness in the community regarding the challenges faced by the Deaf
• approaching organizers to make their events accessible to the Deaf
• arranging for interpreters to be present at local mosques for the translation of sermons and prayers
• arranging for interpreters to be present at festivities (e.g. Eid, Ramadan, Holy night celebrations) as well as Islamic workshops, conferences, and conventions
• setting up Islamic classes with interpreter services - the curriculum addressing the knowledge level of a Deaf audience
• training interpreters on Islamic terms and signs so that they are able to interpret in an Islamic setting and context
• interpreting the Quran into ASL

Referrals and appointments, basic counselling and medical interpretation for Mushkegowuk Cree patients

• Geaganano Residence located at 176 Johnson St, Kingston: Provides accommodation for eligible Cree patients and their families.

Professional organization that offers visual language interpretation in French and Langue des signes québécoise (LSQ) and computerized note-taking

• offers an initial assessment of needs, selects a team of interpreters, and manages preparation materials

Provides interpretation and translation services to the non-English/non-French speaking community

• facilitates equitable access to health, social, legal, education, and other community services
• interpretation services to and from 60+ languages (in person/by phone)
• translation services to and from 45+ languages
• provides CILISAT testing and online training for cultural interpretation, medical knowledge and terminology

Call to inquire about languages available, capacities change on a regular basis

Teletypewriter (TTY) relay service

• numbers that helps the hearing community to communicate on the telephone with the hearing impaired
• confidential relay operator service ensures telephone access for those using or contacting someone who uses a TDD/TTY
• incoming calls must be placed from Canada but can be relayed to anywhere in the world
• long-distance charges do apply

Community services, including:

Intake for the Ontario Electricity Support Program (OESP):

• qualifications for reduction on electricity costs

Immigration services:

• establishment services
• counseling and assistance in immigration procedures
• application for various visas, for permanent residency, work permit, citizenship, sponsorship, etc.

Commissioners for Oaths available to validate

• oaths
• affirmations
• affidavits

Legal services:

• information and advice on immigrant and refugee rights
• guidance on judicial procedures
• defense of rights on various issues

Medical services:

• in-home doctor visits
• nursing and medical services at home

Social services:

• 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

Services to seniors:

• home visits
• transportation and accompaniment
• physical activity
• meditation and relaxation sessions
• foot care
• social outings

Services for individuals with a disability:

• social housing management
• budget management
• employment support
• family support

Funerals

• financial and administrative support