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Offers the following child care programs:

Infant Programs

• Works with parents to provide an environment that is similar to the infant's home environment
• Ensures consistency with daily routines such as nap times, play times, and feeding times

Toddler Programs

• Provides structured indoor and outdoor play times and developmentally appropriate activities

Preschool Programs

• Helps prepare children for entry into school
• Engages children in various activities that include dramatic play, arts and crafts, sensory exploration, and gross motor play

School-Age Programs

• Provides child care before and/or after school, during PD days, March and Christmas breaks, and during the summer
• Provides an inclusive setting to help children develop a healthy attitude towards learning
• Allows children to play with others and express themselves through the arts, drama, and imaginative play

• Operates a residential treatment facility for male youth who are stuggling with substance abuse, addiction, and mental health issues
• Utilizes traditional aboriginal healing practices along with western treatment methods to guide individuals towards autonomy
• Offers a recovery program that is centred around farm life, equine therapy, and outdoor therapy
• Enables the recipient to reintegrate into society, school, and work

Offers the following services:

• Equine therapy
• Family participation in therapy
• Individual and group counselling
• Life skills development
• School program
• Therapy outdoors or in nature

Training, consultation and resources on assault prevention, equity and inclusion for children and youth in school and minority French-speaking communities

Carrefour des Immigrants FrancoQueer (CIF)

• settlement and integration services
• information, orientation and reference
• information and orientation workshops
• help with refugee application process and follow up
• discussion groups and peer support, including matching with someone already settled
• social integration activities to adapt to Canadian life
• psychosocial support and crisis counselling

Employment preparation

• assessment of skills, interests and experience
• labour market information
• training and work placement opportunities
• workshops on job search techniques
• resume writing support
• interview skills
• mentorship
• support during the process of developing and launching a business

Pre-departure services for immigrants -- preparation prior to arrival, after arrival and support for employment and integration in the workplace

Works with ministries to ensure that the French Language Services Act is applied

• Ensures that the public has access to services in French in the 25 designated areas
• Provides information on the province's Francophone population
• Supports the Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs
• Information on how an agency or a region can receive a designation under the FLSA
• Provides advice relating to Francophones and the delivery of French-language services
• Gathers and provides information on Ontario's Francophone community
• Acts as a link between the Francophone community and government ministries and their agencies

Represents the Ontario French-language public school boards

• supports its members who serve Francophone communities
• provides support, training, advocacy and information to its members

Web-based, distance learning option for Ministry-funded Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) program * students may wish to take the web-based course in addition to an on-site course

Designated LBS service providers deliver e-Channel distance learning programs, including specialized services available to Aboriginal, Francophone and deaf, deaf-blind and hard of hearing adults:

Anglophone (English speakers)

• The Learning Hub

Indigenous -- Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council, Good Learning Anywhere (GLA),

Francophone (French speakers)

• Coalition ontarienne de formation des adultes

Deaf and Hard of Hearing

• Deaf Learn Now -- online instruction in American Sign Language

Academic and Career Entrance (ACE) Program -- College Sector Committee,

• Students needing to meet admission requirements for specific apprenticeship and postsecondary programs may wish to complete the Academic & Career Entrance (ACE) Program, available at many colleges and also available online

Francophone helpline for women

• crisis intervention
• support and referral to community agencies
• confidential calls

COVID-19 -- office currently closed to in-person service; toll free and local phone lines are OPEN; complaints may be made using online complaint form on website, or via email to sf-fls@ombudsman.on.ca

• reviews and investigates complaints, including systemic issues
• makes recommendations regarding provision of French language services by the provincial government
• promotes compliance with French Language Services Act (FLSA)

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

Develops the full potential of francophone deaf or hard of hearing, deafblind, blind or low vision students in Ontario

• education services and resources
• learning full and abbreviated Braille as well as specialized programming for students with blindness or low vision
• help ensure the overall development of the child and his inclusion in the society
• advisory services for school-aged children

Provincial organization that serves its membership

• contributes to the development of the Franco-Ontarian artistic and cultural community
• regroups seven sectors of activity and acts as a forum for dialogue between the the cultural and artistic contributors of the province for the collective development of Franco-Ontarian culture
• ensures action of financing the arts and Franco-Ontarian culture, of the status of artists and of the language-culture-education link

Free, confidential 24-hour support and crisis line for French-speaking women in Ontario

• supports and connects survivors of violence to community services
• victims and survivors of violence of any form
• security plan
• information and referral support to local, regional and provincial service providers

Legal services

• supports actions aimed at equal access to justice in French through close collaboration with other government, community and legal organizations
• provides tools to justice professionals so that they can offer their services in French
• informs and equips the general public to develop an understanding of, and capacity to participate in, the legal system in French

Organization that works towards the elimination of oppression experienced by women

• advocates action through cooperation between networks
• adopts action based on a feminist analysis of the social and community situation
• promotes the development of resources for French-speaking women in Ontario
• develops cooperation and communication between the various networks
• offers legal services for Francophone women dealing with violence
• offers online and in-person training for the general public and interveners
• runs awareness campaigns on violence against women

National organization providing services in the arts

• regroups 17 theatre companies established in Francophone communities in New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British-Columbia
• promotes the development of a franco-canadian theatrical scene by organizing and supporting various promotional activities