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META:PHI supports addiction professionals in delivering care to patients with addictions across care settings; promotes barrier-free and integrated addiction services

Rapid Access Addiction Medicine Clinics (RAAM Clinics)

To access a list of RAAM clinics across Ontario, www.metaphi.ca/raam-clinics/

• low-barrier, walk-in clinics for addictions
• time-limited medical addiction care, including pharmacotherapy, brief counselling, and referrals to community services

COVID19 Online mental health and substance use support, including resources, tools, apps and connections to trained volunteers and qualified mental health professionals; confidential modules for addressing low mood, worry, substance use, social isolation and relationship issues

Immediate crisis support available:

• youth call 1-888-668-6810 or text WELLNESS to 686868
• adults call 1-866-585-0445 or text WELLNESS to 741741​

PocketWell App
Includes access to self-assessment tool and tracker that monitors mood and mental well-being; connects to WTC portal

Partnership includes Kids Help Phone, Homewood Health, and Government of Canada (Health Canada), see separate listings

Promote the health of Toronto residents through the delivery of health services and programs and the development and implementation of public policy and practices

• immunization and screening for communicable diseases
• health education programs
• family and child health
• dental health
• sexual health
• injury prevention
• environmental health
• physical activity
• public health standards enforcement
• research and population-based health research
• air quality health index
• beaches water quality
• extreme heat/cold alerts
• food handler certification program
• health status reports
• home visiting program for pregnant women and parents of children birth-3 years
• smoking cessation * support to help quit smoking

Breastfeeding Support - Counseling for breastfeeding mothers * phone calls or home visits * breast pump rentals * discussion of the effects of foods and medications on breast milk

Dental Services - Free dental clinics for eligible children and youth (ages birth-17 years), adults enrolled in selected programs, and older adults 65 years and older * low cost dental clinic referral for those not eligible for free services

Diabetes Prevention - Community programs that focus on promoting healthy lifestyle changes to prevent type 2 diabetes * programs focus on diabetes risk assessment, food skills and nutrition, physical activity, and smoking cessation and stress management

Services and Programs:

• Early Abilities (Speech and Language, Vision, Hearing)
• Emergency Preparedness
• Immunization Information Centre
• Works, The
• Case Management *Mmt
• COVID-19 Toronto Public Health Shelter Intake Line
• Toronto - Fall Prevention
• Vulnerable Adults and Seniors Program

Harm reduction based opioid substitution program that includes methadone and suboxone

Eating Disorders Program

• for children and youth 8-18 years
• diagnosis and treatment
• inpatient and outpatient programs
• family education

Substance Abuse Day Treatment Program and Outpatient Services

• harm reduction approach
• assessment, individual and group treatment
• day treatment with academic program
• parent support

Young Families Program

• health care for adolescent mothers and their children
• nutrition and feeding
• parenting education

SickKids Interprofessional Team for Youth (SITY)

• focuses on illness-specific issues for youth with chronic health conditions
• identification and reduction of high-risk health behaviours
• health care for marginalized and at-risk populations including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth, street-involved teens, and immigrant and newcomer adolescents
• advocacy

Transgender Youth Clinic -- interdisciplinary medical care and support to transgender adolescents

SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health (formerly Hincks-Dellcrest Centre) -- see separate entries

Program partnered with Cancer Care Ontario designed to enhance knowledge, build capacity and empower Indigenous communities with the skills and tools needed to address tobacco cessation, protection and prevention

Virtual care clinics offering:

• Primary care consultations
• Specialist clinics
• Substance Use Services / Withdrawal Management
• Psychiatry
• E-Prescriptions
• Labs and referrals
• Medical sick notes

COVID19 -- Call or visit hospital website for updates on entryway restrictions, current visitor policies and appointment cancellations; telephone or virtual visits may be available, ask care provider for details


Acute care hospital

• cardiac care
• transplant centre
• surgery and critical care

Outpatient clinics

• diabetes
• eating disorders
• geriatric psychiatry
• HIV
• osteoporosis
• sleep
• tropical disease

Trauma-informed care, residential and community treatment programs

Residential Treatment Program
Includes individual and group counselling, cognitive behavioural therapy, relapse prevention, life skills classes, smoking cessation support, family support, discharge and continuing care planning, and spiritual awareness

Community Treatment Program
Includes individual and group counselling, relapse prevention, life skills classes, smoking cessation support, pre-treatment support, continuing care

COVID19 Building closed to the public, all non-essential services suspended; mental health and justice case management available

• Friends Community Meal Program, takeout food only Mon-Fri 10 am-4:30 pm; take out dinner Mon-Fri 4 pm-5 pm
• access to telephone, washrooms Mon-Fri 2:30 pm-4 pm
• PAID Clinic Thu 1:30 pm-3:30 pm, assistance with ID on first come, first served basis
• visit Fred Victor website for details on available services

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Drop-in services, including information and referral, counselling and advocacy

• access to ID clinic
• access to food, clothing and phones
• mental health and justice workers
• harm reduction equipment and support
• Fair Change Legal Clinic
• seasonal income tax preparation
• creative arts programs and outings
• community garden

Member agency of Toronto Drop-in Network (TDIN)

COVID19 -- Substance Use Service and RAAM Clinic open


Substance Use Service

• assessment and ongoing management of substance use disorders
• harm reduction education and supplies
• brief individual counselling
• group counselling
• withdrawal management
• medication assisted treatment
• referral to long-term treatment

Rapid Access Addiction Medicine (RAAM) Clinic -- addiction assessment and care for people without connections to other addiction treatment

Emergency shelter for men
Short term problem solving and referrals, case management, housing and addiction counselling, and harm reduction

• access to Housing Connections (see separate listing) Community Partner, assistance with housing search and application process

Emergency Hostel Program 416-392-5547
Emergency accommodation in dormitory setting (capacity 240), with access to bed area 4 pm-8 am, includes day program, counselling and referrals, meals

• access to lounge, resource room, computers
• laundry and lockers available

Long Term Program 416-392-5542
Long term accommodation (capacity 134) with 24-hour bed access, includes counselling and referrals, meals and laundry, and on-site day nurse

O'Neill House Program 416-392-5407
Housing transition program (capacity 50)

Seaton House part of George Street Revitalization and scheduled to close by end of 2022, with residents moved to alternate locations, for information visit City of Toronto website for George Street Revitalization updates

Non-medical alcohol and drug detoxification

• crisis care
• assessment, referral and treatment planning

Residential Withdrawal Management Program

• capacity 16
• assessment
• symptom management
• counselling
• referral to other services

Community and Day Withdrawal Management

• assessment
• referral
• treatment planning
• education
• stress management
• counselling

Coordinated Access to Addiction Services, 1-855-505-5045 -- telephone information and referral to addiction support services in Toronto

COVID19 Modified services via phone, email, video calling, or screened on-site services by appointment with enhanced safety protocols

Health Centre
Nurses or nurse practitioners available for phone consultations and referrals, or by appointment; urgent psychiatry visits can be arranged; call 416-929-9614 ext 2238 or email healthcentre@ysm.ca

Mental Health Services
Telephone counselling by appointment, call Nazreth 416-929-9614 ext 2269 or email nmebrahtu@ysm.ca

Nursery
Appointments available for supplies for young families in need; current registered families may receive a 2 week supply of child supplies, to coordinate pick up call Ruth 416-929-9614 ext 2232 or email rroblin@ysm.ca

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Health Services
Including primary medical care, dental care, check ups, lab tests (including HIV testing), referrals, and ID replacement; no Ontario Health Insurance or identification required; child care available

• access to diapers, formula, baby food
• birth control, pregnancy tests
• prenatal care, perinatal services
• prenatal and parenting classes
• immunization
• optometry, eye glasses
• chiropractor, physiotherapist, naturopath, psychiatrist
• addictions counselling
• traditional Chinese medicine
• foot care, socks and shoes
• health education and counselling on health issues

Non-residential substance use treatment program, assessment, individual and outreach counselling, crisis intervention, referral, harm reduction, educational workshops

• no emergency services

For other YMCA/YSAP locations in Greater Toronto Area, see separate listings

Drop-in services, including medical, mental health, employment, housing support and legal services

• breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack
• access to laundry, showers
• hygiene products
• substance use counselling and harm reduction supplies
• mental health counselling and crisis intervention
• visiting nurse
• housing support services
• access to telephones, resource computers
• referral to community partners
• clothing available (dependent on donations)

Member agency of Toronto Drop-in Network (TDIN)

COVID19 Call 416-926-8267 ext 110 for information on admission to residential services; client must be at another secure residential location for at least 2 weeks, and must have tested negative for COVID19 prior to admission

Supportive residential treatment and transitional housing, including rehabilitative programs, aftercare, community development

• Catholic perspective

Matt Talbot Houses
Transitional housing and long-term supportive housing programs

St Michael's Houses
Short term residential and extended residential treatment programs

Group and individual counselling to individuals with mental health and addiction issues * addiction day treatment program

Services and Programs:

• Aboriginal Mental Health And Addiction Services
• Rapid Access Addiction Medicine (RAAM) Program

COVID19 -- registered nurse on site, but regular drop-in medical clinic hours have been suspended until further notice


CATCH (Co-ordinated Access to Care for the Homeless) --for persons who are homeless and not connected to services, with or without mental health or addiction problems, referrals through Medical clinic -- call for details

AApricot (Addiction Assessment Psychotherapy Referral in Community of Toronto) program

• assess, motivate and refer underserved substance users to appropriate services
• operates in partnership with Fred Victor (see separate entry) and community physicians

Housing workers/resettlement/crisis intervention counselling -- Monday-Friday, by appointment only

Gambling Addiction Program -- case management and support groups for adults struggling with both homelessness and problem or pathological gambling (temporarily closed, call for details on re-opening of program)

Veterans Housing Navigation Team

• intensive case management for veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness
• contact Veterans' Transition Worker

Pastoral Care Program -- counselling and support to meet spiritual needs

Member agency of Toronto Drop-in Network (TDIN)

Residential, outpatient and distant delivery substance addiction recovery programs, including alcohol and drug use

Complete Care
Inpatient and outpatient treatment programs, including primary care, alumni and family care, and relapse prevention aftercare

• 6 week intensive outpatient treatment
• residential care in home-like treatment setting
• children's and parenting programs
• separate programs for self-identified men and women
• 12 step philosophy
• continuing care
• workplace programs

Virtual Intensive Outpatient Program (VIOP)
Home based 26-week intensive outpatient treatment, including 6 weeks intensive programming and 20 weeks continuing care

• remote access, video-conferencing
• pre-admission support groups
• alumni support groups
• family supports
• continuing care

COVID19 -- most staff working remotely, call or email for program intake and support

In-person court services, and visits to Vanier Centre suspended, Market Place closed due to COVID restrictions

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Transitional housing, counselling, community, court and outreach programs

Phyllis Haslam Residence -- transitional residence for women on parole

• staffed 24 hours
• individual and group counselling, practical assistance
• referral and support to plan for release
• capacity 14, also 2 satellite apartments for independent community living, 1 for woman with a child

General Counselling -- individual and group counselling supports and workshops for women in the community dealing with social, economic and justice issues

• provides information pertaining to legal rights, health and safety and alternatives to at-risk behaviours
• programs include parenting, immigrant family law, anger management, theft and fraud, healing from abuse and trauma, domestic/gender based violence, substance abuse and gambling support

Reintegration Counselling -- individual and group counselling for women on provincial probation and parole

• clients provided with skills to develop alternatives to theft, fraud, substance use behaviours and poor decision making

Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model (TREM) --individual and group counselling and psycho-educational support for women who have experienced gender-based trauma

Direct Accountability Program (DAP) -- provides alternatives to prosecution for individuals charged with minor criminal offences, operates at the College Park court

Partner Abuse Response program -- 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

BEST (Building Employment Strategies Together) -- individual and group support for women to develop a job search plan

• communication skills, resume writing, financial literacy, identifying career training programs and job placement

My Start-Up Entrepreneurship Program -- self-employment entrepreneurship training and support program for women who want to start their own business

• idea generator sessions, employment skills workshop, support developing business ideas and low interest loans
• in partnership with Rise Asset Development at University of Toronto

Record Suspension (Pardon) Information Services -- assistance with submitting a pardon application with the National Parole Board of Canada

Talk and Listen Phone Line, 1-855-924-3708 -- assists women calling from institutions to navigate the criminal justice system

• information and resources on legal information, housing, mental health services, reintegration, release planning
• does not make third part calls or call on anyone's behalf

College Park Court Program -- practical assistance and support, information to women and their families navigating the court system

• assistance with referrals, information and resources
• free snacks, clothing, personal hygiene items for women released on bail

Vanier Centre for Women -- social and recreation program, provides information and resources about Elizabeth Fry Toronto and other community supports

The Market Place -- for marginalized women particularly those recently released from incarceration

• in-house service provides free personalized shopping allowing women to pick up clothing, food, supplies and other needed items