- How We Help
- Healthy people, strong communities
Healthy people, strong communities
- Improving access to social and health-related support services
- Supporting resident and community engagement
- Supporting community integration and settlement
Hamilton Agencies
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AFRO Canadian Caribbean Association
Phone: 905-385-0925
Website: www.accahamilton.ca
Group Supports to Seniors offers physical, recreational, social, emotional, and health supports to seniors. Program also helps seniors to access social assistance benefits.
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Ancaster Community Services & Information
Phone: 905-648-6675
Website: www.ancastercommunityservices.ca
Assisted Volunteer Driving Program supports seniors in maintaining their well-being and independence by offering clients safe and reliable transportation to important medical appointments or social necessities.
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Canadian Mental Health Association, Hamilton Branch
Phone: 905-521-0090
Website: www.cmhahamilton.ca
Evening Social Recreation Rehabilitation Program provides opportunities for adult consumers of mental health services to plan evening activities where they can relax, socialize, and learn communication and living skills, develop group programs and projects, as well as offer educational opportunities.
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Canadian Red Cross, Hamilton Branch
Phone: 905-522-8485
Website: www.redcross.ca
Friendly Visiting Volunteers provide outings for seniors who live alone or face social isolation due to aging, lack of services or geographic isolation.
Health Equipment Loan program provides short-term loans of medical equipment and mobility aids.Meals on Wheels delivers hot and cold nutritious meals to seniors, adults convalescing, chronically ill and physically or mentally challenged individuals.
Transportation provides safe, reliable transportation to and from medical, rehabilitative or out of town specialist appointments and adult day programs for the frail, elderly, cognitively and physically disabled.
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Catholic Family Services
Phone: 905-527-3823
Website: www.redcross.ca
Individual and Family Counselling delivers services to individuals who do not have the resources to access counselling. It builds on the strengths of individuals, couples and families and assists in removing barriers that prevent optimal social functioning.
Senior’s Intervention and Support enables high-risk seniors to remain in independent living situations. Program intervenes before health or other personal problems develop preventing the need for health services or institutional care.
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Canadian Hearing Society, Hamilton Region
Phone: 905-522-0755
Website: www.chs.ca
Hearing Care Counselling Program provides communication and hearing care support services to enable seniors with hearing loss to carry out daily activities independently, safely and with reduced communication difficulties.
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Canadian National Institute for the Blind(CNIB)
Phone: 1-888-275-5332
Website: www.cnib.ca
Rehabilitation Program works with seniors experiencing vision loss to develop the skills necessary to help them remain independent and active within their community. Counselling and Referral Services identifies individual needs and goals of new clients experiencing vision loss and the necessary support services to meet those needs. Referrals to other community services are made as required
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Community Information Hamilton
Phone: 905-528-0104
Website: www.cishw.on.ca
Information and Referral/Data Management collects and maintains current community information; disseminates community information through a range of modes that meet community needs; documents and reports gaps in services and unmet needs.
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Community Living Hamilton
Phone: 905-528-0281
Website: www.communitylivinghamilton.com
Respite/Supported Leisure Planning supports the inclusion of children and youth with developmental disabilities through recreational activities.
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Dundas Community Services
Phone: 905-627-5461
Website: www.dundascommunityservices.on.ca
Community Development and Planning identifies emerging community needs through research, finds financial and human resources to address those needs and recruits and organizes citizens to meet those needs.
Coordinated Services identifies community needs; reports needs to appropriate agencies/organizations, advocates and negotiates for services to be available in the Dundas community, and coordinates multiple services for the citizens of Dundas.
Family and Individual Counselling promotes and strengthens individuals and families and enhances community inclusion and integration through the provision of ongoing assessment and counselling, crisis intervention, advocacy and referrals for individuals and families.
Information Dundas provides citizens with the information that links them with services available in the community.
Services for Seniors and Persons with Disabilities provides assisted transportation, caregiver support, training, information and education, security and reassurance checks, friendly visiting, Canada Post alerts and meals on wheels.
Volunteer Services responds to the volunteer needs of not-for-profit organizations. Service recruits, screens, interviews, refers and places volunteers.
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Elizabeth Fry Society, Hamilton Branch
Phone: 905-527-3097
Website: www.efryhamilton.org
Court Support assists women who have been charged with criminal offences by providing crisis/transitional counselling, education on justice system, alternative sentencing options and apprises women of their legal rights.
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Flamborough Information & Community Services
Phone: 905-689-7880
Website: www.infoflam.on.ca
Waterdown Seniors Social Club provides a variety of social and recreational activities to meet the different needs and abilities of the members.
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Glanbrook home Support Program INC.
Phone: 905-692-3464
Website: www.ghsp.ca
Meals Made Easy provides a wide variety of freshly prepared homemade, frozen meals that are delivered to the client’s home or can be picked up.
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Hamilton & District Ostomy Association.
Phone: 905-389-8822
Website: www.ostomyhamilton.com
Community Outreach provides support to persons with an Ostomy and their families through monthly meetings, referrals, information materials, public awareness and education in the community.
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Hamilton Council on Aging
Phone: 905-777-3837
Website: www.coahamilton.ca
Community Support Services for Seniors from the Diverse Community focuses on addressing and eliminating barriers improving access for seniors from diverse communities.
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Hamilton Jewish Services
Phone: 905-627-9922
Website: www.hamiltonjss.org
Casework provides crisis intervention, resettlement and integration programs, information and referral and a Kosher Food Bank.
Senior Program provides a variety of support services for older adults including daily workshops, a choir, a theatre, social and recreational activities, English as a second language, literacy workshops and access to computers.
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HARRRP
Phone: 905-525-3069
Website: www.harrrp.ca
Social and Recreation opportunities, in partnership with various organizations, the Centres provide a variety of social and recreational programs to children, youth, families and seniors.
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John Howard Society
Phone: 905-522-4446
Website: www.jhshamilton.on.ca
Crisis Intervention & Reintegration Services supports recently released individuals from a correctional institution through short-term counselling, direct assistance or referral to appropriate services. Family Support provides brief intervention services for parents who are experiencing challenges parenting youth ages 12-17 who are in conflict with the law or at risk of coming into conflict with the Youth Justice System. Transportation provides monthly trips to the federal penitentiaries in the Kingston and Warkworth areas for family members and their children who wish to maintain contact with incarcerated loved ones.
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Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, Hamilton Chapter
Phone: 905-527-7874
Website: www.mssociety.ca/hamilton
Health and Wellness offers a number of key activities (self-help groups, Yoga classes, education sessions, friendly visits and kids programs) aimed at supporting individuals and families in addressing health and wellness concerns resulting from MS.
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Robert Land Community Association
Phone: 905-526-1558
Website: www.robertland.org
Community Hub builds community capacity through partnerships that bring needed and appropriate programs to the Keith neighbourhood.
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SACHA, Sexual Assault Centre Hamilton and Area
Phone: 905-525-4573
Website: www.sacha.ca
Abuse Prevention offers off-site educational presentations and training workshops on issues related to sexual assault, sexual harassment, childhood sexual assault and other related issues. Counselling and Advocacy offers support services for women, 16 years of age or older, who have experienced childhood and/or adult sexual violence.
Crisis Support provides a free, confidential and anonymous 24-hour telephone support line to female and male survivors of adult and/or child sexual abuse. Accompaniment and transportation for women to the hospital or police station is offered.
Diverse Community Outreach provides multilingual support programs to new immigrant women and women from diverse racial and cultural communities.
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Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton
Phone: 905-522-1148
Website: www.sprc.hamilton.on.ca
Research Planning and Coordination initiates and engages in activity that uses research, planning and coordination functions to inform decisions for policy and program choices.
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St. John Ambulance
Phone: 905-387-1880
Website: www.sja.ca
Therapy Dog Program facilitates and trains volunteers and their dogs to visit residents of long-term care facilities reducing isolation and encouraging socializing.
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St. Joseph’s Home Care
Phone: 905-522-6888
Phone: 905-522-6888
Website: www.stjoeshomecare.on.ca
Personal and Home Support Services identifies seniors who require personal and/or home support to enable them to remain independent in the community. A program manager helps clients establish personal goals and assists them to achieve those goals through the provision of a personalized care plan.
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St. Joseph’s Villa
Phone: 905-627-3541
Website: www.seniorsinmotion.net
Adult Day Program is a social, recreational, physically stimulating day program for seniors, offering a wide range of activities focusing on the maintenance of cognitive and physical functioning.
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St. Matthew’s House
Phone: 905-523-5546
Website: www.inform.hamilton.ca
Roxborough Seniors Centre enables seniors to share skills, socialize, access fitness and recreation programs, information and referral within their neighbourhood.
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Student Open Circles
Phone: 905-528-1221
Website: www.studentopencircles.com
Community Volunteer Action Group provides human resources to not-for-profit organizations through volunteer placement of McMaster University students.
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Threshold School of Building
Phone: 905-522-8686
Website: www.thresholdschool.ca
Ready to Work offers training and work experience to youth with employment barriers providing mentorship, hands-on classroom and shop instruction, and on-site work experience.
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Urban Native Homes
Phone: 905-548-6974
Website: www.unhinc.com
Transitional Supportive Housing for Homeless Aboriginal Seniors provides on-site supports to seniors in order to maintain their home and access other needed supports.
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United Way Burlington & Greater Hamilton
Phone: 905-527-4543
Website:www.uwaybh.ca
The McMaster Not-for-Profit Governance Workshops are specifically designed to enhance governance in the not-for-profit sector using sound business principles as embodied in the Directors’ College at the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University.
Union Peer Counselling Training Program is designed to give representatives the tools needed to assist fellow employees (and/or their families) find help and services in our community.
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Volunteer Hamilton
Phone: 905-523-4444
Website: www.volunteerhamilton.on.ca
>Agency Capacity
builds organizational capacity by providing workshops in the areas of Volunteer Management and Voluntary Organizational Management. Volunteer Engagement provides an on-line searchable volunteer database with over 130 community agencies posting volunteer opportunities available to the public.
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Victorian Order of Nurses, Hamilton
Phone: 905-529-0700
Website: www.von.ca
Good Beginnings is a parent and infant support volunteer program that screens, selects, trains and assigns volunteers to visit the homes of parents with a newborn. Meals on Wheels volunteers deliver a hot or cold meal to seniors’ homes from Monday to Friday.
Tele-Touch trained volunteers call socially isolated seniors and individuals with disabilities on a scheduled basis to provide friendly conversation and security. Volunteer Visiting volunteers provide regular friendly visits and support to lonely, socially isolated, elderly, disabled and chronically ill individuals who live on their own.
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YWCA of Hamilton
Phone: 905-522-9922
Website: www.ywcahamilton.org
Living Well offers a variety of physical and wellness programs for individuals and groups that enhance well-being and promote social interaction and inclusion. Women’s Transitional Housing provides safe, supportive, affordable housing for women over 16 who wish to develop skills in independent living in a supportive environment.
Burlington Agencies
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Active Aldershot
Phone: 905-847-9559
Website: www.activealdershot.ca
Active for Lifeprovides unique programming for seniors living in Aldershot to increase their physical, emotional and social well-being.
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Burlington Counselling and Family Services
Phone: 905-637-5256
Website: www.burlingtoncounselling.com
Individual, Couple, and Family Counselling provides professional counselling to individuals and families facing personal, emotional or relationship problems. Issues may include dealing with separation and divorce, marital problems, coping with depression, family violence, and parent/child conflicts.
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Burlington Senior’s Centre & Partners
Phone: 905-335-7888
Website: www.burlington.ca
Isolated Seniors Program supports seniors living in isolation by providing transportation to the Burlington Seniors’ Centre to access physical and recreational activities to promote their well-being, reduce social isolation and loneliness, and increase knowledge of the community.
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Canadian Mental Health Association, Halton Region
Phone: 905-693-4270
Website: www.cmha-halton.ca
Mental Health Education and Marketing Services educates the community with mental health information, and provides community referral services by phone during normal business hours.
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Canadian Red Cross, Burlington Branch
Phone: 905-637-5664
Website: www.redcross.ca
Home Healthcare Equipment Services provides short-term loans of medical equipment and mobility aids.
Meals on Wheels delivers hot and cold nutritious meals to seniors, adults convalescing, chronically ill and physically or mentally challenged individuals.
Transportation provides elderly, cognitively and physically disabled with safe, reliable transportation to and from medical, rehabilitative, and out of town specialist appointments and adult day programs.
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Community Development Halton / volunteer Halton
Phone: 905-632-1975
Website: www.cdhalton.ca, www.volunteerhalton.ca
Social Planning provides social research to identify trends, needs and issues within the community; education and community awareness for community issues. Volunteer Halton promotes and supports effective volunteerism through recruitment, referral, education, promotion and leadership. Provides and maintains an interactive website where volunteers can access current volunteer opportunities from the privacy of their home.
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Community Living Burlington
Phone: 905-336-2225
Website: www.clburlington.ca
Life Skills provides basic life skills training, social and recreational activities, and work activities with financial remuneration to adults with a developmental disability. New Horizons aims to integrate seniors with developmental disabilities with their non-disabled peers. Provides support to enable seniors to participate in age appropriate activities e.g. bingo. Preschool Integration provides support, resources and training to child care programs to assist in including all children in the program routines and activities.
Residential Services provides accommodation, care and supervision to adults with a developmental disability in group living settings. Each participant develops a personal Individual Support Plan and services are provided based on their needs.
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Canadian National Institute for the Blind
Phone: 1-888-275-5332
Website: www.cnib.ca
Rehabilitation Program works with seniors experiencing vision loss to develop the skills necessary to help them remain independent and active within their community. Counselling and Referral Services identifies individual needs and goals of new clients experiencing vision loss and the necessary support services to meet those needs. Referrals to other community resources are made as required.
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Halton Family Services
Phone: 905-845-3811
Website: www.haltonfamilyservices.org
Individual, couple and family counselling provides a range of professional counselling services to help people cope with a wide range of life’s problems and stresses.
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Halton Truma Centre
Phone: 905-825-3242
Website: www.haltontraumacentre.ca
Trauma Assessment/Treatment offers counselling and other supports to children or adults who have been subjected to sexual, physical or emotional abuse and neglect.
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SAVIS
Phone: 905-825-3622
Website: www.savisofhalton.org
Seniors Sharing Circles is delivered by seniors for seniors with an exchange of information and ideas. Encourages peer support between seniors, allowing them to learn from each other’s experiences of victimization through to survivorship, coping strategies and access to support network/services.
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United Way of Burlington & Greater Hamilton
Phone: 905-635-3138
Website: www.uwaybh.ca
The McMaster Not-for-Profit Governance Workshops are specifically designed to enhance governance in the not-for-profit sector using sound business principles as embodied in the Directors’ College at the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University.Union Peer Counselling Training Program is designed to give representatives the tools needed to assist fellow employees (and/or their families) find help and services in the community.
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YMCA of Hamilton / Burlington / Brantford
Phone: 905-632-5000
Website: www.ymcahbb.ca
Young and Young at Heart is an intergenerational program to help at-risk youth gain a better understanding of their world from an older, more experienced perspective. Program consists of three components; nutritious meals, physical activity and leisure social activity.