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Helpful Information and Resources

What is Psychotherapy?​​​​​

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On this Page:

  1. General Mental Health Resources

  2. ​Specialized Services

  3. Online Safety, Gaming, and Sex Trafficking Resources

  4. Navigating Health Services

  5. Crisis Services

  6. Helpful Phone Apps

 

General Mental Health Resources
Free Services

     

Family Services

     

Resource Collections

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Specialized Services

Autism Services

 

Substance Use and Addiction Resources

     

Youth Mental Health Resources

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Online Safety, Gaming, and Sex Trafficking Resources

Internet Safety Quick Guides

 

Screen Time

 

Sexuality and the Internet

 

Parental Controls

 

Sex Trafficking

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Screen Time Logging Challenge

  • Challenge your youth to complete the one-week log Screen Time Challenge with you. Fill out a log with your teens daily to increase communication, closeness, understanding and accountability. 

  • At the end of the week, compare the amount of screen time tabulated against recommendations on the bottom of the log sheet.

  • This exercise can help build new family time while guiding individual screen habits. 

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Navigating Health Services

Newcomer Information & Health Plans

  • Apply for OHIP

  • Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) Covers the following for 3 Months:

    • Hospital services

    • Services from doctors and nurses outside the hospital

    • Basic lab work and imaging tests

    • Supplementary benefits (may last up to 12 months) may include:

      • Certain prescription medications 

      • Urgent dental care

      • Limited vision care

      • Other services like counselling can be available but will need approval beforehand 

 

Health Navigation & Crisis Resources

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Crisis Services

Immediate Support

  • Call: 911 for Emergencies

  • Call: 988 Suicide & Crisis Line

  • EveryMind Crisis Response

    • Call: 416-410-8615, available 24/7

  • Youthdale Psychiatric Crisis Services

    • Call: 416-363-9990, available 24/7 for parents/guardians

 

Support Lines

  • For Children & Youth

    • Kids Help Phone

    • Call: 1-800-668-6868, Text: CONNECT to 686868

  • Wellness Together for Adults, Connecting with a Mental Health Professional

    • Call: 1-866-585-0445, Text: WELLNESS to 741741

  • Wellness Together for Youth, Connecting with a Mental Health Professional

    • Call: 1-888-668-6810, Text: WELLNESS to 686868

  • Hope for Wellness Help Line for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples

    • Call: 1-855-242-3310, available 24/7 in English and French and, by request, in Cree, Ojibway, and Inuktitut

  • Former Indigenous Residential School Students Crisis Support

    • Call: 1-866-925-4419, available 24/7

  • Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Crisis Line

    • Call: 1-844-413-6649, available 24/7

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Helpful Phone Apps

Stress and Anxiety Relief

  • MindShift CBT

  • Happify

  • Calm

  • Headspace

  • Headway

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Mood Management

  • Daylio

  • BoosterBuddy

  • MoodMission

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Religion-based Support

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General Mental Health Resources
Specialized Services
Online Safety etc.
Navigating Health Services
Crisis Services
Phone Apps
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