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Provides the following support services to women 55 and older:

• Advocacy
• Assistance with housing applications
• Individual and group counselling
• Legal aid and court appointments
• Safety planning

• Offers culturally appropriate counselling services to Indigenous women by Indigenous women, via telephone, text, or chat

Offers services in 14 languages, including:

• Oji-Cree
• Cree
• Algonquin
• Inuktitut
• Mohawk
• Oneida
• Odawa
• Potawatomi
• Micmac
• Black Foot
• Anishnaabe
• Moose Cree
• Swampy Cree
• English

• 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 counselling services, peer support groups, and workshops that address various issues including:

• Anger management
• Depression
• Male survivors of sexual abuse
• Relationships
• Trauma

Member agency of Support Services Network for Male Survivors in Ontario

• Provides a range of responsive individual, family and community programs and services for the complete life journey of all Anishinabek people
• Cares for the physical health, mental health, and the health of the communities where Anishinabek people live by promoting wellness, preventing illness and trauma, and providing diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation

Offers a variety of program and services including:

• Child Welfare Services
• Cultural Programs and Services
• Health Services, also under Dilico Family Health Team Clinic
• Mental Health and Addiction Services including walk-in clinics

• Provides counselling and support services to men who have experienced sexual abuse or sexual assault
• Offered specifically for men to regain a sense of control over their lives by developing positive coping skills
• Provides counselling for family members of male survivors

Member agency of Support Services Network for Male Survivors in Ontario (North Region)

Provides in-person and online professional, confidential services to individuals, couples and families to help them make positive changes in their lives

Programs include:

• Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Addiction and Mental Health
• Financial Counselling
• Children and Youth
• Education and Training Workshops

Also offers Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) for workplace wellness support

Lead agency of Support Services Network for Male Survivors in Ontario (North Region); may offer e-counselling for Male Survivors

Provides supports for Indigenous women, youth and girls affected by sexual exploitation

Crisis services include:

• Immediate response to women at risk of human trafficking or leaving a situation of trafficking
• Stabilization with transportation to safe housing
• Collaboration with police services as required
• Access to ongoing trauma-informed, culturally-based crisis care and supports as needed

Long-term supports and services include:

• Case management
• Developing safety plans
• Short and long-term planning
• One on one supportive counselling
• Referrals and transportation/accompaniment to community resources
• Follow-up services as required

• Provides individualized 24 hour emergency service to victims and survivors of sexual assault and/or domestic violence
• Provides emergency medical assessment and treatment
• Provides initial emotional and social support as well as ongoing follow-up care by specially trained nurses

Provides initial emergency care only with the patient's informed consent, and may include all or part of the following:

• Assessment and treatment of injuries
• Testing/treatment/prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STI) including HIV
• Emergency contraceptives
• Reassurance and emotional support
• Collection of forensic evidence including photographs
• Risk assessment and safety planning
• Referral for medical follow-up
• Referral to appropriate social services agencies
• Referral to shelter and or other relevant community resources
• Police involvement, at victims request
• Storage of forensic evidence for up to six months if the patient is uncertain about involving the authorities

Provides optional follow-up services accessible through the Sexual Assault/ Domestic Violence Victim Treatment Centre (SA/DVTC) that may include:

• Reassessment of injuries
• Further consideration of safety
• Continuing treatment and monitoring of STIs (including Hepatitis and HIV)
• Further photographs if indicated
• Appropriate referrals

All in-person services are by appointment only; services are also offered virtually, by phone or video conference

Provides confidential and free support for Francophone women affected by sexual assault including the following:

• Accompaniment
• Advocacy
• Community liaison and development
• Counselling and peer support
• Information and referral
• Practical assistance

Also provides:

• Free lending library
• Prevention programs
• Public education
• Volunteer training

Satellite office located in:

• Geraldton

COVID19 In-person and virtual services available; phone and virtual counselling to frontline health workers and their families, and others members of the public, in Ontario; also assists permanent residents, convention refugees, student visa and work permit holders with Employment Insurance (EI)and Canada Emergency Resource Benefit (CERB) applications

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Linguistically and culturally sensitive counselling and settlement services for individuals and families

Counselling and Psychotherapy
Individual, group, couple, marital and family counselling and mental health psychotherapy, for issues such as elder abuse, family violence, wife assault, male batterers, incest, sexual assault, offenders, bereavement, problem gambling, substance abuse; crisis intervention; referrals to community partners as necessary

• consultation for human service providers
• satellite offices (limited hours, by appointment only) in Toronto (602 Queen St W), Markham (5665 14th Ave), Mississauga (720 Burnhamthorpe Rd W, Unit 2), and Unionville (600 Village Pkwy)

Family programs, including parenting and family life education, and youth counselling and leadership development

Partner Assault Response (PAR)
12 week group education and counselling program on domestic violence and non-abusive ways of resolving conflict

• victims/partners of the offender provided with support including safety planning, referrals to community resources, and information on offender's progress
• group counselling in Cantonese, Mandarin and Vietnamese

Settlement Program
Orientation, needs and eligibility assessments, interpretation and translation; information and referral topics include immigration, issues of concern to refugees and foreign domestic workers, citizenship, social assistance benefits, legal aid, housing, child care, English classes, and education and employment training

• computer access
• job search and employment counselling
• assistance in accessing services

Housing and Transitional Support Program
Counselling, information and referrals, crisis intervention and case management for women who have experienced violence, and their children

• community services information on issues such as housing, legal, financial, health care, immigration, children's services
• settlement support including assistance setting up safety plan, ongoing counselling and support

Interpreters, including interpreters for women who are victims of domestic violence and sexual violence, as well as those who have been sexually exploited through human trafficking

• certified translations
• interpreter training
• language testing
• language consulting
• social enterprise

COVID19

• call nurses' line before going if possible, 416-323-6366
• emergency room staff and program nurse will decide if patient should be transported to 76 Grenville

Medical Assessment and Treatment

• crisis and emotional support
• testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections and drugs that may have been used to commit the assault
• emergency contraceptive options
• collection of medical and legal evidence at request of client
• risk assessment and safety planning; referral to community resources
• follow-up services

Mobile team of nurses can be requested to come to the following emergency departments in Toronto:

Mount Sinai Hospital
600 University Ave
416-596-4200

Toronto General Hospital
200 Elizabeth Street
416-340-3111

Toronto Western Hospital
399 Bathurst St
416-603-2581

Michael Garron Hospital
825 Coxwell Ave
416-461-8272

St. Michael's Hospital
30 Bond St
416-360-4000

St. Joseph's Health Care Centre
30 The Queensway
416-530-6000

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
2075 Bayview Ave
416-480-6100

COVID19 - Nurse-staffed 24 hour telephone line available to assist victims/survivors and service providers with service navigation during the COVID19 pandemic; call 1-855-628-7283 or visit website for details, or to find a local Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Treatment Centre in Ontario

Provides representation, leadership and support to 36 hospital-based sexual assault and domestic violence treatment centres collaboration in research, education and training activities to establish standardization in service provision

Information on health options and centre locations for victims/survivors of violence

• direct services for victims/survivors provided by member centres
• online training modules for service providers
• resource library

Find a Centre -- online searchable directory of sexual assault/domestic violence centres in Ontario; map available to download

COVID19 -- office closed for visits, staff working remotely, intake line open



Free confidential service for Ontario workers who have experienced harassment and/or sexual assault in the workplace * legal information and advice, referrals * community outreach

Provides four hours of free legal advice to those who qualify by phone or video chat from one or more lawyers on referral list

• service available anytime after assault has occurred
• Does not provide legal representation

Information and referral to community support services to meet long term needs including crisis and follow-up services



Member agency of Support Services Network for Male Survivors in Ontario

Francophone helpline for women

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

Telephone and online (chat) crisis counselling, emotional support, information and referrals to emergency shelters, legal information and community services, as well as culturally appropriate resources for abused women

• liaison with diverse communities
• confidential and anonymous

Toronto only: initial assessment and intake for assaulted women's shelters, call 416-863-0511 or toll free 1-866-863-0511

Professional counselling, consultation and education services

• education services include workshops, training and therapy groups to address identified needs and specific requests
• faith incorporated into the therapeutic process

Individual intervention

• anxiety
• depression
• trauma (including emotional, physical, sexual abuse/assault in childhood or more recent, PTSD)
• domestic violence
• sexual addictions and pornography
• decision-making skills
• spiritual/faith issues
• issues related to self-harm
• eating disorders
• bereavement
• mental health challenges
• most other areas

Couple and family intervention

• conflict resolution and communication skills
• healing from trauma as a couple or family
• bereavement issues (including separation/divorce and impact on children)
• forgiveness
• surviving infidelity
• roles in relationships
• challenges of parenting
• blended family issues
• challenges of elderly family members
• adult siblings issues
• most other areas of couple and family intervention

Education services

• abuse prevention training
• conferences on special topics (parent-child relationship throughout life cycles, general relationship skills, see website for monthly Education/Seminar topics)
• bereavement
• vicarious trauma and prevention of burnout
• parenting topics
• emotional and spiritual health
• any life concern topics on request

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