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NOTE: This is not a support group for caregivers

Functions as a committee made up of member agencies who provides services that support caregivers, to strengthen and facilitate inter-agency collaboration and communication to promote awareness of matters pertaining to caregivers

• Publishes the Seniors Information Directory
• Publishes a Caring Connection Chronicle 4 times a year

Member Agencies

• Alzheimer Society
• Canadian Hearing Society
• Canadian Red Cross
• Centre for Education and Research in Aging and Health
• Comcare Health Services
• Community Information and Referral Centre
• Best Care Canada
• Crimes Against Seniors unit (City of Thunder Bay Police)
• End of Life Care Network
• Hilldale Gardens Retirement Living
• Hospice Northwest
• Isabella Retirement Living
• Jasper Support Program
• Lutheran Community Care Centre
• March of Dimes
• The Manor House (St. Joseph's Care Group)
• Meals on Wheels (City of Thunder Bay)
• Home and Community Care Support Services North West
• Retired Teachers of Ontario Thunder Bay
• Thunder Bay District Social Services Administration Board
• Thunder Bay 55+ Centre
• Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
• Victorian Order of Nurses (VON)
• Wesway

Coordinates a group intervention program for men who have abused, neglected, or exposed their children to domestic violence

• Functions as a 12-step mutual support group that provides support for recovering addicts
• Offers support from one addict helping another to stay clean
• Empowers individuals to find a new way of life without the use of drugs

Find a meeting location on the NA website

Provides the following services:

• Assistance in accessing employment and education
• Crisis intervention and referral services
• Individual counselling
• Support and advocacy for medical, legal and court appointments
• Support groups

• Provides support to individuals of all ages living with the effects of acquired brain injury through education, public awareness, information and advocacy

Peer Support Program

• Connects individuals coping with an acquired brain injury with individuals whose life experiences involve similar situations, needs, and interests
• Provides support
• Offered for survivors, family members, and/or caregivers
• Coordinated through local brain injury associations

Therapeutic Garden Project

• Partnered with Partners In Rehab to provide a garden space and a therapeutic recreation specialist
• Supports participants in learning new skills and gaining knowledge
• Allows participants to assist with gardening tasks and talk with like-minded individuals

This organization is a Registered Charity

• Provides education and support to individuals with addiction issues
• Offers both individual and group services

Services include:

• Individual counselling
• Assessments and aftercare
• Education, prevention, and wellness
• Referrals for treatment and other healing services
• Ability to incorporate harm reduction approach

• Provides professional counselling services
• Offers faith-based counselling if requested
• Offers the Family Strengthening program

Counselling service include help with:

• Abuse and neglect
• Addictions
• Depression and anxiety
• Eating disorders
• Grief
• Residential school experiences
• Self-esteem and identity
• Trauma

Note: This agency is part of a larger faith-based registered charity but individuals do not have to conform to a specific belief system in order to participate in counselling

• Offers an out-patient mental health program with a multidisciplinary approach to treating a variety of mental health issues
• Provides individual counselling
• Emphasizes skill based training and other integrative educational strategies to help clients achieve their goals

Offers groups including:

• Anger Management Group
• Anxiety (Understanding Anxiety)
• Assertion Group
• Communication Group
• Depression (Understanding Depression)
• Family Issues Group
• Feeling Good Group
• Life
• Living with a Loss Group
• Men's Group
• Relationships Group
• Self-Esteem
• Soul (Returning to Soul)
• Spirituality Group
• Stress Management
• This Is Your Life - A Peer Support Group
• Wellness Group

Provides recovery support services to mental health consumer/survivors, providing them the opportunity to contribute to their own well-being and that of their community

Provides the following services:

• Systemic and/or self-advocacy for improved mental health services/quality of life
• In-house/public education
• Membership development through social recreation
• Focus groups
• Opportunity to build skills through participation on boards and committees

Satellite offices located in:

• Geraldton
• Manitouwadge
• Marathon
• Schreiber

• Provides services and supports for individuals who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ)
• Offers peer support and skills building groups
• Counsels individuals, their partners, and family members

Offers various clinical services, including:

• Primary health care
• Sexual health
• Preventative health screening
• Medical support for transition process
• Health care and education services
• Groups: Gender Journeys, Transgender Peer Group, Host of The Other 10%, Host to the Sexuality and Gender Equity (SAGE) Committee
• Telemedicine services

Offers an outpatient program that provides services to clients with an eating disorder (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or binge eating) who are medically stable

Treatment can include:

• Nutritional counselling
• Individual therapy
• Family therapy
• Education

Services are offered on site and via remote appointments

Provides a wide range of programs and services designed to assist individuals, their family and friends


Gambling Education and Prevention

Offers education and training sessions for the general public, schools, families and allied professionals to raise awareness through:

• Prevention resources
• Community presentations
• High risk education groups
• Problem gambling screening

Assessments

• Evaluates personal strengths and areas of difficulty
• Evaluates severity of problematic behaviour
• Explores personal goals
• Generates recommendations and referrals

Individual Counselling (Trauma informed)

• Allows people to work towards negotiated goals and can address a variety of issues related to problem gambling
• Offers a specialized focus including stress management, spirituality, grief and loss or coping with trauma
• Provide discharge planning and referrals as needed

Residential Treatment Program

Provides an extended stay in a safe environment that:

• Provides opportunity to focus on developing healthier lifestyle habits
• Provides opportunity to join with other people who share similar experiences and challenges
• Examines values, beliefs and feelings in order to be able to respond differently to urges and temptations
• Provides opportunities to learn how to embrace new ways of behaving that promotes positive change

Gambling Information and Treatment Group (GIT)

• Offers an educational group open to anyone interested in understanding more about gambling and related issues

Youth in Transition (YIT) Program

Offers specialized programs for youth and young adults who are bridging the gap between adolescence and adulthood including:

• Harm reduction group
• Information, education and skill building activities
• Alternative strategies to problem gambling

Family Program

• Offers support for partners and family members because they often experience stress, anxiety and depression as they focus on the person with the addiction and so may neglect their own needs
• Offers individual or couples counselling which can include children and parents
• Provides group sessions, allowing an opportunity to connect with other people who are struggling with the impact of addiction on their families and relationships

Other Behavioural Addictions
Provides support for managing:

• Problematic gaming (video game addiction)
• Internet/online overuse
• Shopping/overspending
• Problematic sexual behaviour (pornography or sex addiction/hypersexuality)

• Provides a range of services to meet the needs of people who may be experiencing difficulties related to alcohol and other drugs
• Offers a continuum of care which includes education and awareness sessions, community treatment groups, individual and family counselling and intensive residential treatment programs
• Provides follow up and continuing care options as an integral part of the program delivery

Substance Abuse Programs offer:

• Assessment and treatment planning
• Community treatment groups
• Ongoing support groups
• Individual counselling
• Day or evening treatment groups
• Intensive residential treatment
• Specialized treatment programs for men
• Specialized treatment programs for women

Older Adult Programs offer:

• Both substance abuse and problem gambling are addressed
• Assessment and treatment planning
• Individual counselling
• Community treatment groups
• Ongoing support groups
• Access to residential treatment

Specialized Areas/Programs include:

• Family
• Spirituality
• Stress Management
• Trauma and Addictions Program

Offers programs for parents, caregivers and families to help them develop the knowledge and skills to care for their child or youth

Programs offered include:

Circle of Security

• Helps parents and caregivers develop stronger relationships with their child
• Offered in a group setting

Family Connections

• Helps parents and caregivers to understand and manage their teen's emotions and behaviours
• Offered in a group setting

Tripe P (Positive Parenting Program)

• Provides parents and caregivers with the skills and knowledge to build positive behviours in their children and gain confidence in their parenting abilities

Parent Support Groups

• Offers support groups to parents to provide them with education and community connections
• Provides a monthly Down Syndrome Parent Support Group

Supervised Access Program

• Facilitates access between children and their parents or caregiver through visits or exchanges
• Offers a safe environment where visits and exchanges can take place