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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

Offer free counselling services to help deaf individuals improve communication with family and friends, stay involved in social activities, and remain safe and independent at home

Communication Devices

Provides information, demonstration and assistance with:

• 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

Education

Offers education and training to consumers, family members, caregivers and the general public that includes:

• 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

Home Visits

Provides individual and family counselling in individual's home on issues related to coping with hearing loss such as:

• 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

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

Provides instruction in American Sign Language (ASL), a visual language made up of specific gestures (signs), hand shapes and facial expressions, with its own unique grammatical rules and sentence structure, used by most Deaf Canadians

• Classes are taught by qualified Deaf instructors, using Signing Naturally, a sign language curriculum that teaches both ASL and Deaf culture to help learners better understand the communication needs of the Deaf community
• Instruction is done through a no-voice teaching method including classroom instruction, role-play, workbook, and DVD
• Courses range from beginner to advanced

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

Helps individuals learn about:

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

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

Offers guidance, advocacy, support and counselling

• Provides assistance in form filling, including but not limited to government forms and applications
• Offers staff who are able to attend meetings between individuals and government case workers
• Provides information and assistance in advocating for an individual's rights
• Assists individuals who are facing challenges with government services
• Provides assessments and recommendation for communication devices

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

• Offers literacy and basic skills training, including numeracy, digital, communication and interpersonal skills
• Helps learners prepare for employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education and greater independence

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

• Provides confidential counselling, education, advocacy
• Offers family, relationship, and individual counselling

Offers counselling in the following areas:

• Deaf identity
• Depression, anxiety or bipolar issues
• Domestic violence
• Grief and loss
• Life transitions
• Parenting and family challenges
• Personal development
• Relationship difficulties
• Sexuality
• Substance use
• Trauma (present or past)

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

Provides employment consultants that provide personalized employment counselling and can assist with:

• Job search challenges related to hearing loss
• Career planning
• Resume and cover letter services
• Leads and referrals to potential job opportunities
• Preparing for interviews
• Arranging an interpreter or live translation of speech to text (CART) for interviews

Offers additional on the job support by working with the individual and the employer to:

• Find assistive technology and communication devices
• Identify and implement appropriate workplace accommodations for a barrier-free work environment
• Provide communication workshops for co-workers

Also provides employment services for employers and students

Provides a variety of in-home health care services

Home Support

• Acquired Brain Injury
• Alzheimer's and dementia care
• Companion Aide
• Homemaking
• Palliative Care
• Personal Care

Respite

• Respite Care

Nursing

• Chronic disease management
• Foot care
• Palliative Care
• Post hospitalization care
• Post hospitalization intravenous care
• Wound Care
• Senior wellness checks

Provides information for persons with disabilities and education of the general public

Delivers programs including:

• Assistive Technology
• Employment Service Centre
• Home and Vehicle Modification Program
• Peer Support group for Post Polio survivors
• Peer Support group for Survivors of Stroke and Caregivers
• Public access to the Internet
• Recreation, arts and leisure programming
• Wheelchair/Walker Repair Assistance
• Other services available include faxing, photocopying, scanning and printing of documents

Provides services for various programs including Assisted Living Seniors, Low Acuity, Outreach and assisted living for the disabled and acquired brain injury

• Provides an array of programs directed at infants, children, youth, parents, adults, caregivers
• Assists individuals in their reproductive years who are making choices about future family life
• Prevents, identifies, assesses, and treats hearing loss to individuals of all ages, on a first come first served basis

Programs and services:

• Community Alcohol and Drug Assessment
• Community Mental Health
• Dental Services
• Healthy Babies, Healthy Children
• Parent Child Services

Child Health

• Provides information, support and workshops for parents, childcare, health and social service providers
• Promotes and supports breastfeeding
• Supports parenting programs and provision of information

Infant Hearing Program

• Provides newborn babies a hearing screening prior to hospital discharge or at a community location if they are unable to access the screening in the hospital

Preschool Speech Language Services

• Assessment
• Intervention and/or therapy
• Monitoring
• Consultation
• Hanen Parent Programs
• Group education, in services, and information distribution

Reproductive Health Program

Provides information on the following topics:

• Folic acid
• Nutrition and optimal weight gain in pregnancy
• Smoking cessation
• Physical activity
• Avoidance of alcohol and substance use
• Benefits of support systems
• Stress reduction
• Prenatal classes (online only)

• Provides non-medical assistance with activities of daily living in the home, such as dressing, bathing, eating, and helping with range of motion
• Services can be offered at school or workplace as well

Attendants will provide physical assistance with activities of daily living such as:

• personal grooming and hygiene
• transferring, dressing
• bathing and washing
• meal preparation
• taking medication
• toileting and bowel/bladder services
• ventilator and tracheotomy services
• essential communication services

Provides supports and services for the elderly and individuals living with a disability

• Works on development of community and regional infrastructure
• Coordinates advocacy, training and program planning

Services include:

• Management of a loan cupboard
• Hospital discharge planning to address health care needs, and to help access services necessary to ensure continued care upon return home
• Community based physiotherapy, and occupational therapy
• Rehabilitation assistance
• Assisted living services for high-risk seniors
• Personal support care for individuals who require temporary services while waiting for long-term care placement, palliative care, convalescence care, or who would otherwise occupy an alternate level of care bed in hospital
• Arthritis management program

Bob Rumball Camp for the Deaf, hard of hearing and multiply challenged young people.

• Programs for children in high school, elementary and special needs programs are offered each summer.
• A year round facility, the Camp also offers a wide variety of winter activities with the Don Durno Lodge, a winterized facility housing a full size gym, assembly hall, dining room and special needs guest rooms.

Offers a summer camp to people of all ages who are partially sighted, blind or deafblind. Provides a blend of recreation and skills development programs in a safe, inclusive environment.

Vision loss rehabilitation and deafblind intervenor services are available.

A national program through CNIB Foundation for all Canadians who are partially sighted, blind or deafblind .

Passenger services include motor-coaches, activity buses, mini-coaches, adult vans, school and wheelchair buses, limousines and classic vehicles, sedan and chauffeur services, as well as convention and meeting services and group tour planning

Offers:

• regular grocery shopping trips for in town seniors
• local bus service to grocery stores
• services to Algonquin Park, Kee to Bala, Casino Rama and Pearson airport

Wheelchair accessible buses are available to charter and to take individuals to appointments. Call for availability and bookings. 3 wheelchair buses, 12 wheelchair spaces, spaces for 30 ambulatory individuals. Lift for ambulatory individuals with wheelchairs or walker.

2022 - Summer Recreation Program is not being held

Regular Service
Summer Recreation Program for people with physical disabilities includes:

• social events, swimming, water sports, canoeing, art, nature trail walks, and out trips into the community
• Camp provides meals and accommodations, along with an atmosphere of acceptance, fun and friendship
• Attendant services are provided on an as-needed basis
• camp is located in Geneva Park, a 150 acre accessible recreational area in Orillia Ontario

64-bed long-term care facility for adults who are deaf, deaf-blind, hard of hearing and hearing

• has a multipurpose room for use by both residents and the Deaf Community
• residence is the only Long-Term Care facility for people who are deaf, deaf-blind and hard of hearing in Canada

Professional Association for Personal Support Workers in Ontario

Provides an array of services to people who are Deaf, hard of hearing, non-verbal and deafblind that are customized to each individual's unique needs, method of communication, and goals to enrich their life.

• intervenor and other specialized services
• community-based residences
• supports development of life and vocational skills
• recreational opportunities