Searching for Disability Associations

• Provides a forum for discussion and mutual support for individuals and families affected by Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
• Promotes public awareness of CF in the community
• Fund raises for CF research
• Serves as a local resource CF support group

• Offers a support group to caregivers and survivors of acquired brain injury
• Coordinates meetings on a monthly basis
• Provides handouts for related issues; posts meeting handouts on website
• Provides light refreshments for participants

• Provides a peer support program to assist survivors, family members and/or unpaid caregivers dealing with an acquired brain injury
• Offers support on a one-on-one basis
• Matches persons with lived experience (Mentor) with an individual who is living with the effects of acquired brain injury and requires support

• Provides support to individuals and families dealing with the effects of acquired and traumatic brain injury through education, public awareness, information and advocacy
• Offers workshops, presentations and conferences
• Offers a large resource library, including videos

• Family and Friends Support Group
• Survivor/Peer Support Group
• Peer Mentoring Program

• Works to improve the quality of life for people with Down Syndrome
• Assists individuals with Down syndrome to become fully integrated into the community

• Social activities
• Speech, literacy and other therapies
• Parent support meetings
• Public awareness

• Provides information and public presentations on epilepsy
• Offers counselling and support services for individuals with seizure disorders and their families
• Provides referral services to medical centres for care or evaluation of their epilepsy
• Helps with medical transportation using the Northern Health Travel Grant (NHTG)
• Arranges information meetings according to need

• Assistive Listening technology such as Personal FM and Infrared systems
• Specialized telephones such as amplified, Voice Carry Over (VCO) and TTYs
• Alerting devices such as fire/smoke, doorbell, phone, baby cry

• Family support and communication training
• Hearing Health Care Clinics
• Hearing Help Classes
• Speech Reading Classes
• In-Service Training
• Presentations/Community displays
• Self-help and support groups

• Understanding your hearing loss
• Use, care and maintenance of hearing aids and other listening systems
• Managing difficult listening situations
• Selecting specialized communication equipment, such as telephones, alarm clocks, television accessories
• Referrals to other community services

• Provides a step-by-step approach to coping with hearing loss and improving communication skills
• Provides information about physical and technical aspects of hearing loss

• Assertiveness training and stress management
• Hearing loss and hearing aids
• Communication devices
• Speech reading and communication strategies

• parent support groups
• programs for children, youth and their families
• social learning opportunities
• advocacy
• workshops
• research libraries
• educational support

• Provides support and information to individuals with autism and pervasive developmental disorders and their families
• Potential Program - designed to directly support parents of children with ASD through greater access to ASD information, and direct contact between parents; to improve access to ASD experts in local communities, provide a mechanism for supported community-based learning opportunities for children with ASD
• Volunteer Parent Support Group - offers monthly meeting for parents of individuals living with ASD

• Provides support to persons living with dementia and their family and friends
• Offers guidance and information such as an overview of the stages of Alzheimer's disease or dementia to individuals newly diagnosed
• Offers individual and family counselling in the individual's home or in other desired locations
• Facilitates a number of support groups on a regular basis
• Provides individual and system-wide advocacy

• Operates a community-based social program that provides physical activity as well as mental and social stimulation for individuals living with early to mid-stage Alzheimer's Disease or dementia, and their care partners
• Provides a place to establish new friendships, and share stories and laughter with others living with Alzheimer's or dementia
• Program offered once per week for eight weeks

• Healthy eating
• Dyslipidemia (cholesterol class is offered twice per month)
• Pregnancy (poor nutrition, slow/fast weight gain)
• Gastrointestinal (GI) (Celiac, Crohn's, Colitis, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Diverticulitis)
• Paediatrics (food allergies), FTT (Failure to thrive), GI, Fe (Iron) Deficiency anemia
• Cancer (cachexia/malnutrition)
• Eating disorders (Anorexia/Bulimia)
• Hypoglycemia
• VIP (Vascular Intervention Program)

• Supports individuals with spinal cord injury and their families through its programs and services
• Provides a one-stop access for information
• Provides one on one support for individuals to assist in regaining independence in the community
• Offers service coordination to navigate the system, advocate for change, adjust to life with a physical disability and achieve goals

• Links individuals with recent spinal cord injury and their family members to people who have lived experience with a spinal cord injury
• Provides a collective voice and representative for persons with spinal cord injury to government, the health care system, communities and the public

• Develops a personalized program to assist individuals living with vision loss to continue to work, play, and enjoy life
• Identifies individual needs and goals, and connects the individual to the appropriate programs and services to meet identified needs

• Provides a comprehensive program of direct services
• Offers various information resources
• Connects individuals with parent/peer support
• Advocates and provides training for children with vision loss, from birth to school age
• Assists with personal adjustment to vision loss and in the development of skills for independence in activities of daily living

• Provides a functional assessment of visual abilities
• Offers information and training in the use of low vision devices
• Educates and instructs on how to maximize residual vision

• Provides information about the availability, selection, use and purchase of specialized technology and products to assist with tasks of daily living
• Accessible catalogues can be ordered via telephone
• Local offices can provide in-person training and technical support
• Access to online webstore here

• Provides a venue to discuss work, home life, activities of daily living, or leisure and community participation, through support groups, the Vision Mate program and immediate, confidential telephone support through the Helpline

• Specialists provide instruction and assistance to build everyday skills and confidence in one-on-one or group settings to learn to live and travel with vision loss

• Works with public libraries to provide access to reading material in braille, or in audio or e-book format
• Browse the digital collection online here

• Offers individual and family counselling
• Coordinates mental health and addictions treatment services
• Offers treatment referrals
• Facilitates education and awareness sessions and presentations

• Offers an ongoing open ended group to help bridge the gap between mental health and addictions treatment services
• Provides treatment referrals
• Provides a psycho-educational component and support through peer shared experience and group leader facilitation

• Operates a community-based social program that provides physical activity as well as mental and social stimulation for individuals living with early to mid-stage Alzheimer's Disease or dementia, and their care partners
• Provides a place to establish new friendships, and share stories and laughter with others living with Alzheimer's or dementia
• Program offered once per week for eight weeks

• Prevent Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) births
• Increase the knowledge, skills and quality of life of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) affected children and families
• Collaborates with existing community and agency partners to provide support to women and their families to have a healthy pregnancy

• Provides education and information on the consequences of alcohol consumption during pregnancy
• Offers individual and group counselling sessions
• Offers parenting strategies and parent support circles
• Provides outreach and teaching through workshops and presentations upon request
• Offers early childhood development support with children's circles, teaching strategies and baby welcoming ceremonies
• Provides clinical services and support through diagnosis and assessment referrals, as well as a liaison with Health Sciences North - FASD NEO Kids Clinic
• Offers a resource library with FASD material/resources and sensory processing tools

• Connects individuals who are living with an acquired brain injury with individuals whose life experiences involve similar situations
• Provides support, shares information and resources with other individuals coping with a similar situation

• runs an online support group of Lupus Ontario
• holds Walk for Lupus as an annual fundraising, call for details

Youth chapter of the Huntington Society of Canada and open to all youth

• provides a community and support network for young people affected by Huntington disease
• attend events, virtual meetings, and/or volunteer

Youth Mentorship Program

• designed to support young people across Canada facing the everyday challenges of growing up in a family affected by Huntington disease
• adult volunteers involved in the mentoring program will also be from families affected by HD, which may assist the youth in better understanding and connecting with the mentors
• mentors will be committed to supporting, guiding, and being a friend to the youth
• download the Youth Mentor Application here
• for more information or to get involved contact the Mentorship Coordinator at mentorship@huntingtonsociety.ca, call toll free 1-800-998-7398 ext 212, or visit the website