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Distance: 200km
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- Acts as a parents' advocacy and support group
- Promotes the use of auditory-verbal therapy to teach Hearing Impaired children how to listen and speak
- Provides a classroom for hearing impaired students at Woodcrest Public School and Hammarskjold High School
- Provides some education and help to parents of pre-school children who have been diagnosed with a hearing loss
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- Promotes and ensures the successful participation in recreation for children and youth with disabilities
- Provides free, limited support and facilitation for children and youth with disabilities who are accessing Recreation and Culture Children and Youth Programs, including summer programs Chippewa Summer Camps, Playgrounds, Canada Games Complex Adventurer's Camp, Kidventures and Youth Move
- Provides support during the fall-spring programs of Learn to Swim (Volunteer Pool, Churchill Pool or the Canada Games Complex), Children's Programs at the Complex, the Neighbourhood Recreation Program and Youth Move
- Staff are adaptable to modified forms of English such as written, gestures, and gazing
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- Provides attendant and support services to persons with physical disabilities and seniors living in their own homes or in supportive housing
- Focus is to empower individuals to live safely and independently in the community
- Offers services based completely on needs of individual
- Assisted Living Services for Seniors
- Attendant Services
- Fee for Service
- Community Outreach, Support Services
- Supportive Housing
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Provides affordable, accessible, supportive housing through the operation of two apartment buildings:
- Castlegreen: 150 Castlegreen Dr
- Jasper Drive: 1201 Jasper Dr
- Glenwood Court: 170 Donald St W
- McKellar Place: 325 Archibald St S
- Superiorview Co-op: 110 Castlegreen Dr
- Andras Court: 122 Cumberland St S
- Cumberland Court: 76 Cumberland St S
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Functions as a rehabilitation clinic offering physiotherapy, massage therapy and other treatments
- Health professionals assess and treat conditions that affect the muscles, nerves and bones that may be caused by work, sports, motor vehicle collision injuries, chronic conditions, or to recover after an operation (e.g. hip or knee surgery)
- Therapy programs include:
- Advanced Spine Care (McKenzie Method)
- Advanced Orthopaedic Manual Therapy
- Cardiac and Neurological Evaluations
- Certified Medical Acupuncture
- Certified Intramuscular Stimulation (IMS) Acupuncture
- Electrical modalities (including ultrasound, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), laser therapies, and others)
- Ergonomic evaluations
- Orthotics
- Soft Tissue and Fascial Release
- Sports Training and Conditioning programs
- Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Pain and Facial Pain
- Ultrasound Bone Healing Technology
- Vestibular (inner ear and balance) Rehabilitation
- Work Conditioning programs
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Temporarily closed due to COVID - call Toll Free 1-866-518-0000 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
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Temporarily closed due to COVID - call Toll Free 1-866-518-0000 or email info@chs.ca for more information on virtual services
Offers classes to help individuals overcome challenges related to hearing loss
Helps individuals learn about:
Offers classes to help individuals overcome challenges related to hearing loss
Helps individuals learn about:
- Hearing loss
- Hearing aids
- Communication devices
- Assertivesness training
- Stress management
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Temporarily closed due to COVID - call Toll Free 1-866-518-0000 or email info@chs.ca for more information on virtual services
Offers counselling services to help adults improve communication with family and friends, stay involved in social activities, and stay safe and independent at home
Counsels on issues related to coping with hearing loss such as:
Provides information, demonstration and assistance with:
Offers counselling services to help adults improve communication with family and friends, stay involved in social activities, and stay safe and independent at home
Counsels 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
Provides information, demonstration and assistance with:
- Assistive Listening Devices 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
- Offers education and training to consumers, family members, caregivers and the general public
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Temporarily closed due to COVID - call Toll Free 1-866-518-0000 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
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
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Temporarily closed due to COVID - call Toll Free 1-866-518-0000 or email info@chs.ca for more information on virtual services
Offers services, products, and information that remove barriers to communication, advance hearing health, and promote equity for people who are culturally Deaf, oral deaf, deafened and hard of hearing
Offers services, products, and information that remove barriers to communication, advance hearing health, and promote equity for people who are culturally Deaf, oral deaf, deafened and hard of hearing
- Sells a full range of assistive technology including TTY's, amplified telephones, visual and amplified alerting/signaling devices, and FM systems
- Provides consumers and the general public with information related to hearing loss, hearing protection, and the issues related to being Deaf, deafened, and hard of hearing
- ASL Literacy Consulting Services (under the Ontario Infant Hearing Program)
- Communication Devices
- CONNECT Counselling Program
- General Support Services Counselling
- Hearing Care Counselling
- Hearing Help Classes
- Northern Literacy and Lifeskills Program
- Ontario Interpreting Services
- Public Education and Information to Communities
- Authorized vendor for Assistive Devices Program (ADP)
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Functions as a rehabilitation clinic offering physiotherapy, massage therapy and other treatments
- Health professionals assess and treat conditions that affect the muscles, nerves and bones that may be caused by work, sports, motor vehicle collision injuries, chronic conditions, or to recover after an operation (e.g. hip or knee surgery)
- Therapy programs include:
- Advanced Spine Care (McKenzie Method)
- Advanced Orthopaedic Manual Therapy
- Cardiac and Neurological Evaluations
- Certified Medical Acupuncture
- Certified Intramuscular Stimulation (IMS) Acupuncture
- Electrical modalities (including ultrasound, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), laser therapies, and others)
- Ergonomic evaluations
- Orthotics
- Soft Tissue and Fascial Release
- Sports Training and Conditioning programs
- Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Pain and Facial Pain
- Ultrasound Bone Healing Technology
- Vestibular (inner ear and balance) Rehabilitation
- Work Conditioning programs
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- Functions as an emergency text messaging service for members of the deaf, deafened, hard of hearing or speech impaired (DHHSI) community
- Allows individuals who are in an emergency situation to converse with a 9-1-1 operator using text messaging
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- 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
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- Promotes participation in recreation for adults with disabilities
- Offers support to individuals with disabilities in City of Thunder Bay Recreation and Culture programs at the following facilities:
- Canada Games Complex
- Thunder Bay 55 Plus Centre and West Thunder Community Centre 55+ programs
- Volunteer Pool
- Sir Winston Churchill Community Pool
- Community Centres
- Golf at municipal courses (Strathcona and Chapples)
- Provides information and special resources such as newsletters, personal consultation and referral, recreation equipment loan, and library
- Staff are adaptable to modified forms of English such as written, gestures, and gazing
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- Allows an adult, child, or youth with a disability to be accompanied by a support person so that they may participate in designated recreational and cultural programs and facilities
- Provides temporary cards for individuals pre/post surgery or recovering from an accident
- Facilities include:
- Canada Games Complex
- Thunder Bay 55 Plus Centre and West Thunder Community Centre 55+ programs
- Volunteer Pool and Sir Winston Churchill Community Pool
- Community Centres
- All Recreation and Culture programs
- Fort William Historical Park
- Sports facilities
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Note: Beginning June 4, 2023 the Canada Games Complex will be closed for about four months for maintenance and construction
Operates a recreational facility consisting of the following:
Operates a recreational facility consisting of the following:
- Diving tower
- Elliptical trainers
- Exercise Bikes (stationary, recumbent and spin)
- Indoor track
- Olympic-sized pool
- Rowing machines
- Saunas
- Stairmaster
- Squash courts
- Treadmills
- Waterslide
- Weight room
- Whirlpools
- Offers accessible swimming and water activities to individuals with disabilities
- Provides equipment for individuals who are physically disabled, such as upper body conditioning equipment, arm-ergometer and parallel bars
- Fitness Coaching is available
- Offers babysitting services for recreation participants
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Provides Orthopedic Physiotherapy and Orthopedic Occupational Therapy services
- Assesses, treats, and educates individuals and families to help relieve pain and restore maximum function
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Provides a variety of in-home health care services
Home Support
Home Support
- Acquired Brain Injury
- Alzheimer's and dementia care
- Companion Aide
- Homemaking
- Palliative Care
- Personal Care
- Respite Care
- Chronic disease management
- Foot care
- Palliative Care
- Post hospitalization care
- Post hospitalization intravenous care
- Wound Care
- Senior wellness checks
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Provides a variety of information, programs, and resources for persons with disabilities and education for the general public
Delivers the following programs:
Delivers the following programs:
- Assistive Devices Program
- Employment Service Centre
- Home and Vehicle Modification Program
- Peer Support group for Survivors of Post Polio
- Peer Support group for Survivors of Stroke and Caregivers
- Resource Centre with computers for job search, education, government forms, etc
- Recreation, arts and leisure programming
- Wheelchair/Walker Repair Assistance
- Information and referral services
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- 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
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Supports and Services for Individuals with Vision Loss
1-800-563-2642 Office: 807-345-3341
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Assistive Technology Services
- 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
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Operates the following programs and services:
- Bethammi Nursing Home
- Manor House Adult Day Program
- PR Cook Apartments
- Diabetes Health Thunder Bay
- Room rentals and catering
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- Provides an opportunity for children, youth, and adults with various disabilities to improve their physical and mental health by participating in horseback riding
- Provides a combination of horseback riding sessions by riding instructors, side walkers, horse grooms and the Board of Directors
- Offers volunteer opportunities
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- Provides active beds utilized for general medical and surgical patients
- Offers cardiac care
- Provides palliative care
- Offers assistance for rehabilitation patients
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