Mississauga office:
3476 Glen Erin Drive, Suite 13A
Mississauga, Ontario L5L 3R4
Phone: 905-828-8787 | Fax: 905-828-8781

Brampton office:
20 Nelson Street, Suite 302
Brampton, ON L6X 2M5
Phone: 905-460-9514 | Fax: 905-460-9769

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Website: www.africancommunityservices.com

Agency Mandate
To improve the quality of life of the newcomer community in Peel by providing information, support and services necessary for healthy integration into Canadian society.

Agency Programs

• Newcomer Settlement Services: Provides a comprehensive range of direct settlement services to newcomers.
• Job Search Workshops and Employment Programs: Provides three-day intensive job search workshops and one-on-one services to immigrants and refugees and also provides other employment services that enhance participation in the labor market.
• Seniors' Support Services: Provides a drop-in program that includes a range of activities and services for the black/African community.
• Youth Development Programs: Programs include various activities and services to assist immigrant and convention refugee youth in developing their leadership, academic and social skills development, goal setting and achievement, safety, self care, summer youth employment etc.
• Violence and Abuse Prevention Program
• Volunteer Development Program: Recruits and trains newcomers as community volunteers to assist them to acquire employability skills as well as get Canadian work experience, Student Co-op and Ontario Works volunteer placement opportunities are also provided.
• Women and Families Support Programs: Provides immigrant women with one-on-one and group counselling, information, referrals, advocacy and support services pertaining to women's health issues, parenting, self care and self improvement, employment, inter-generational issues etc .
• Young African Achievers Club: Provides Club activities such as Summer Camps, field trips, group sessions etc. for youth age 8-14.
• Computer Basics: Introduces and orients newcomers to computers in a non-threatening environment.
• Community Information and Participation Services: Provides culture-specific information, informal language interpretation and translation, encourages community members to be actively engaged in their communities.

Associated Youth Services of Peel

120 Matheson Blvd. East, Suite 201
Mississauga, ON L4Z 1X1
Phone: 905-890-5222 | Fax: 905-890-5230
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Website: www.aysp.ca

Agency Mandate
AYSP is a dynamic team of optimistic and compassionate professionals and volunteers dedicated to helping children, youth and families manage mental health and/or justice issues in order to realize their potential and encourage their contribution to community.

Agency Programs

• Group Services: Offers community-based, short-term, education-focused parenting groups.
• R.I.S.E. (Recognizing Individual Success and Excellence): Addresses the multi-faceted needs of children, aged 6-9, displaying anti-social behaviour.
• S.E.E.D. (Support Excellence, Encourage Development) Program: Early intervention for youth, aged 9-12, displaying anti-social behaviour.
• Extrajudicial Sanctions (EJS): A diversion program for youth, aged 12-17, charged with minor offences.
• Court Program: Court staff act as a liaison between the Ontario Court of Justice and Probation Services.
• Community Service Order Program: Supports young people and adults required by the Courts to complete Community Service work.
• Volunteer Program: Provides volunteer services to children, youth and families.
• Challenges: A Child Management Program: An intensive outreach service in which workers form partnerships with parents to help them deal with their child's troublesome issues.
• Family Connections: A Family Preservation Program: An 8-10-week intensive outreach program for families experiencing crisis and for families at risk of having a child or youth placed in care.
• Working Together with Families, 0-6: An intensive, home-based intervention involving a number of agencies.
• Youth Justice Committee (YJC): An alternative to formal court proceedings when dealing with young people alleged to have committed first-time offences.
• Multisystemic Therapy Program: An intensive short-term intervention that involves the entire family.
• The R.A.I.N. (Reaching Adolescents in Need) Program: An outreach program that identifies and engages youth with mental health issues who are marginalized from their families, school and community.
• Section 23 Classrooms: An educational program that provides service for students unable to attend regular or special education classes within a community school.
• The Attendance Centre: An alternative to custody program under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, which allows young people to remain in the community to participate in a structured and supervised program.
• The Adolescent Team: Provides a variety of service options to families who are involved with Peel CAS where risk factors are related to parent-adolescent conflict and the youth is at risk of removal from the home.
• The Transitional Aged Youth Outreach Program (TAYO): Assists youth who are experiencing on-going mental health challenges as they transition into adult services.
• The Youth Beyond Barriers Program (YBB): Provides support and resources to queer and trans youth in Peel.
• The Youth Mental Health Court Worker Program: Provides referral resources to the Youth Justice Court at the A. Grenville & William Davis Courthouse for transitional aged youth, 16 and 17 years, with serious mental health issues who are in conflict with the law.
• The Enhanced Extrajudicial Sanctions Program (EEJS): Provides community based intervention through in-house programming and established programs operated by community agencies. The goal of the program is to reduce and/or eliminate the associated labeling of young people involved with the legal system through active involvement in the community. (Toronto area only)
• The Extrajudicial Measures Program (EJM): Diverts young individuals from formal criminal proceedings into a program of rehabilitation.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel

71 West Drive, Unit 23
Brampton, ON L6T 5E2
Phone: 905-457-7288 | Fax: 905-454-0769
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Website: www.bbbspeel.com

Agency Mandate
A mentoring organization for children and youth ages 6 - 17 in Peel Region.

Agency Programs

• One-to-One Friendship: This program matches a child 6 – 17 years of age (Little Sister/Little Brother) with a caring adult (Big Sister/Big Brother) over the age of 18. Matches are encouraged to plan fun and low cost activities 2 – 4 times per month for 1 year. Monthly agency sponsored recreational activities are provided. Unique opportunities to mentor a child together as a couple or as a female volunteer matched with a young boy are also available in our Couples for Kids Program and Big & Little Buddy Program.
• Group Mentoring: Five volunteers mentor ten children one weeknight from September to June in local schools throughout the Region. Groups participate in fun and skill-based activities. Outing costs are covered by the agency. Activities include floor hockey and sports, community tours, swimming and more.
• Big Bunch: A program designed for children on the waiting list. Activities are planned by the agency and volunteers sign up to bring children to at least one outing per month.
• In-School Mentoring: Offered in partnership with the Peel District School Board and the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board this program matches elementary girls and boys with a caring adult mentor. Matches meet for one hour during school hours and on school property to share in fun activities.
• Teen Mentoring: This school-based program matches elementary students with caring youth mentors – ages 15 and up from a nearby secondary school. Matches meet at the same time each week in a supervised group setting.
• Go Girls! Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: A school-based mentoring program for girls in grades 7 – 8. The program curriculum promotes active living, healthy eating and positive self esteem. Female mentors ages 18 – 25 years are trained to lead the fun and interactive sessions over 7 weeks.
• Conversation Club: Provides new Canadian youth (12 – 18) with opportunities to integrate into Canadian society, to practice English conversation skills and receive homework help from youth mentors (16 – 24). Offered in partnership with the Centre for Education and Training and funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

Boys and Girls Club of Peel

315 Traders Blvd., Unit 11
Mississauga, ON L4Z 3E4
Phone: 905-712-1789 | Fax: 905-712 1775
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Agency Vision:
Building Caring Communities – one child at a time; one youth at time

Agency Programs

• Youth Programs: Social/recreational activities designed to enhance the growth and development of children and youth in a group setting.
• After-School & Evening Programs: Promotes active social/recreational participation, homework and computer/Internet access among children and youth in a safe and caring environment.
• Breakfast for Kids: Provides breakfast programs at 114 different locations to address the problem of hungry children in Peel schools.
• CONNECTIONS Program: A summer program delivered in partnership with Canadian Tire Jumpstart Program, the YMCA and Parks and Recreation in Brampton and Mississauga to help children from disadvantaged families participate in sports programs or summer camp. Transportation and financial subsidies are available to those who qualify.

Brampton Caledon Community Living

Brampton office:
34 Church Street West
Brampton, ON L6X 1H3
Phone: 905-453-8841 | Fax: 905-453-8853

Caledon office:
33 King Street West
Bolton, Ontario L7E 1C7
Phone: 905-857-9691 | Fax: 905-951-2303

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Website: www.bramptoncaledoncl.ca

Agency Mandate
To support and empower people who have an intellectual disability, in partnership with their families and the community, to lead enriched and meaningful lives.

Agency Programs

• Respite: Parents of children with an intellectual disability can enjoy some time of their own while their children participate in staff supported social and recreational activities.
• Connections: Supports young adults who have an intellectual disability make a successful transition from school to a wide range of community activities including work.
• Early Childhood Services: Supports preschool teachers in early childhood settings in Brampton and Caledon that support the inclusion of children who have an intellectual disability and facilitate the transition of children from early childhood settings to the educational system.
• Employment: Norpak is a competitive packaging business that employs adults who have an intellectual disability in a workshop environment.
• Alliance Personnel: In conjunction with employers and the business community, supports individuals who have an intellectual disabilityto access and secure competitive employment in the community.
• Community Participation Supports: Supports adults with an intellectual disability to participate in cultural, recreational, and educational activities.
• Community Living Supports: Supports people who have an intellectual disability to live in their homes, develop their skills, pursue their interests, and to participate in all elements of community living.

Brampton Multicultural Community Centre

Brampton office:
150 Central Park Drive, Suite 107
Brampton, ON L6T 2T9
Phone: 905-790-8482 | Fax: 905-790-8488

Brampton office:
197 County Court Blvd., Suite 303
Brampton, ON L6W 4P6
Phone: 905-790-8482 | Fax: 905-790-8488

Mississauga office:
3190 Ridgeway Drive, Unit 35
Mississauga, ON, L5L 5S8
Phone: 905-828-1328 | Fax: 905-828-8439

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Website: www.bmccentre.org

Agency Mandate
To strengthen the abilities of individuals and families in building their capacity to become self-sufficient, independent and self reliant through supportive programs, services and skills development.

Agency Programs

• Integration, Settlement and Adaptation Program (ISAP): Facilitates early settlement of immigrants and conventional refugees who arrived in Canada within three years.
• Settlement Workers in Schools Program (SWIS): Provides settlement services to youth and newcomer families in schools.
• Newcomers Settlement Program (NSP): Helps families, including immigrants, refugees, and newcomers, who are facing difficulty in adapting to new culture and systems.
• Job Search Workshops for Newcomers (JSW): Short-term employment assistance support for newcomers that assists using a workshop model and one to one support for employment planning and preparation skills development.
• Settlement Beyond 3-Years: A drop-in service for clients to access supportive counselling and settlement services.
• Volunteer Management: Provides individuals, people who are unemployed and newcomers with an opportunity to develop or upgrade their skills.
• Employment Support Program
• HOST: Facilitates adaption, settlement and integration by matching new immigrants with Host volunteers. This program is offerd through two Brampton locations.
• Library Settlement Program (LSP): Supports the settlement and integration of newcomers to Canada. BMC employees are based in Brampton Library to assist newcomers with information that help them to start new life in Peel.

Caledon Community Services

Caledon Community Serrvices
Royal Courtyards, Upper level,
18 King Street East, Bolton, ON L7E 1E8
Phone: 905-951-2300 or 905-584-9460| Fax: 905-951-2303

Chez Thrift
301 Queen Street South, Bolton
Phone: 905-857-8121

ReUstore
109 Industrial Road, Bolton
Phone: 905-857-7824

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Website: www.ccs4u.org

Agency Mandate
As multi-service, community-impact organization, CCS supports residents in the community of Caledon and surrounding communities by "helping people help themselves by working creatively and responding to community needs."

Agency Programs

• Crisis and Counselling: Individuals and families are provided with support and resources that assist them in dealing with tragedies, illness, housing problems, family violence, parent/child conflicts, financial hardship and other challenging circumstances.
• Community Information: Residents access the human services in the Town of Caledon and the Region of Peel by receiving responses to their telephone and electronic inquiries for information about government, health, and social services.
• LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada): Language training classes and other settlement support services for newcomers to Canada.
• Supportive Housing: Around the clock support services and care coordination to frail residents within six not-for-profit seniors' apartments in Caledon.
• Seniors Helping Seniors - A seniors mentoring program that recruits seniors to provide leadership in various community activities that promote civic engagement and seniors activation.
• Transportation: Wheelchair-accessible transportation for seniors and people with disabilities to medical appointments, recreational activities, etc. For those unable to travel on their own, a trained passenger assistant will accompany them from the door of their residence directly to the door of the facility they are attending.
• Respite Care: Brokers in-home respite care to help people who are caring for elderly or disabled family members.
• Transitional Care Centre: The two-bed facility meets the needs of seniors who have completed an acute-care phase in hospital and are in need of additional support before returning home.
• Jobs Caledon: Assists and supports Caledon residents looking for employment through workshops, resources and individual coaching. Strategic alliances with local businesses also allow for development of skill sets and provide opportunities for employment.
• LIFE for Youth: Assessment, training and employment placement for youth, ages 15-30.
• Volunteerism: Assists with volunteer placement opportunities, resulting in personal growth, leadership opportunities and the ability to impact the community in which they live.
• Chez Thrift: Eco-friendly social entrepreneurial store offering low-cost clothing, books and household goods.
• The ReUstore: Eco-friendly social entrepreneurial store offering low-cost furniture, household goods, appliances and building supplies.
• A variety of satellite services via Peel-based agencies that offer individual and family counselling, substance abuse counselling, support for people with mental illness, diabetes clinic, dental screening for children, probation and parole services and a healthy sexuality clinic.

Caledon Meals on Wheels

80 Allan Drive
Bolton, ON L7E 1P7
Phone: 905-857-7651 or 905-584-2992 | Fax: 905-951-3706
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Website: www.cmow.org

Agency Mandate
Caledon Meals on Wheels is dedicated to feeding the community spirit by enabling individuals of all ages to live independent lives by promoting nutritious meals, companionship, social programs and exercises for the mind and body.

Agency Programs

• Meals On Wheels: Volunteer drivers deliver hot, nutritious meals daily to the homes of isolated seniors and people with disabilities throughout Caledon and Orangeville.
• Volunteer Visiting & Telechat: Links a senior or person with a disability to a volunteer who visits in the client's home and may accompany the client to appointments, shopping or social outings. Volunteers provide regular contact by telephone for friendly conversation and safety checks.
• Wheels to Meals/Congregate Dining: Group social luncheons providing nutrition, social interaction and information. S.M.I.L.E. (Simple Movement to Enhance Independent Living for the Elderly and Disabled): Group gentle exercise classes offered at six Peel Living seniors apartment buildings in Caledon; St. James Seniors' Drop-In Centre; and Caledon Seniors' Centre. In-home program (HSEP) offered on an individual basis by trained staff and volunteers.

Caledon Parent-Child Centre

150 Queen St. S.
Bolton, ON L7E 1E3
Phone: 905-857-0090 | Fax: 905-857-0107
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Website: www.cp-cc.org

Agency Mandate
To provide support, resources and education that strengthen families and promote the optimal development of children.

Agency Programs

• Family Time: Drop-in sessions for children, parents and caregivers including children's play opportunities, creative and early enrichment activities.
• Child Development/Parenting Programs: Interactive adult/child early learning and parenting programs for infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
• Parenting Education: Workshops for parents and caregivers on a variety of parenting, family enrichment and health promotion topics.
• Open Door: Information, referral services and support for parents and caregivers.
• Parent Resource Library: Parenting books and audio/visual materials available for lending.
• Pre-natal, post-natal classes and breastfeeding clinics (offered through Peel Health)
• Adjustments After Birth: Postpartum Support Group
• Let's Get Together: Assistance, support and programs for families parenting a child with special needs.
• Caregivers' Morning: A drop-in for caregivers and the children in their care.
• Red Cross Babysitting Certification course
• On-site Consulting Services: For families concerned about their child's development and health (conducted by Region of Peel, Halton-Peel Speech and Language, Peel Children's Centre, and Kerry's Place).
• Pep-Start Clinics for Children
• Child care information
• Rural Outreach Program: A mobile van used to transport educational toys, program supplies, resources and staff to rural communities within Caledon. Staff deliver programs in rented space throughout rural Caledon where children's programming is limited.

Caledon\Dufferin Victim Services

Caledon Head Office (South Caledon):
18 Mill Street
Bolton, ON L7E 1C1
Phone: 905-951-3838 | Fax: 905-951-2772
Crisis line: 905-951-3838 | Toll Free: 1-888-743-6496

Shelburne Office (North Dufferin):
203 Main Street East
Shelburne, ON LON 1SO
Phone: (519) 925-1001 | Fax: (519) 925-3098
24-hour Crisis line: 905-951-3838 or 1-888-743-6496

Dufferin Head Office (South Dufferin):
390 C Line
Orangeville Ontario L9W 3Z8
Phone: 519-942-1452 | Toll Free: 1-888-742-2658
24-hour Crisis line: 905-951-3838 or 1-888-743-6496

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Website: www.cdvs.ca

Agency Mandate
To lessen the impact of crime and tragedy, increase the victim's level of empowerment, improve the victim's/community's safety, help prevent re-victimization, connect victims with appropriate community services and assist police and other emergency service providers in meeting a victim's emotional and practical needs.

Agency Programs

• Crisis Intervention: In person and on telephone: Provides one-on-one assistance during times of crisis or as follow-up to an incident referred to the agency by police or other emergency services.
• DVERS Alarms: Supply personal home alarm systems to people in abusive relationships who are considered at high risk of violence from an intimate ex-partner.
• SupportLink Program: Supply complimentary wireless telephones programmed to dial 9-1-1 to victims at high risk of domestic violence, sexual assault and harassment.
• Information and Referral Services: Provides information and referrals to community resources for ongoing support and longer-term care to clients subsequent to their involvement with the agency.
• Volunteer Program: Agency trains volunteers, who provide the frontline crisis intervention.
• Court Support Program: Provides information on the criminal justice system and help with criminal injuries compensation and victim impact statements. Accompaniment.
• Victim Quick Response Program (VQRP): Provides "immediate" financial assistance for short term counselling, funeral expenses for homicide victims, crime scene cleanup, emergency home repairs, emergency child\elderly\special needs dependents, emergency accommodation\meals to victims who report a violent criminal code offence.

Canadian Hearing Society

2227 South Millway, Suite 300
Mississauga, ON L5L 3R6
Phone: 905-608-0271 | Fax: 905-608-8241 | TTY: 905-608-1691
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Website: www.chs.ca

Agency Mandate
The Canadian Hearing Society is the leading provider of services, products and information that removes barriers to communication, advance hearing health, promote equity for people who are culturally deaf, oral deaf, deafened and hard of hearing. .

Agency Programs

• Audiology: Provides hearing testing, hearing aid evaluation and hearing aid check-up or fine-tuning to people of all ages. The audiologist can also make referrals to other services to assist clients and their families to communicate effectively and live with hearing loss.
• Hearing Aid Program: Provides a variety of services including custom fitting of hearing aids and assessments to ensure they are working properly. Training in the use of and maintenance of hearing aids and repairs are also available. The Hearing Aid Program also fits and makes custom-made swim
• Interpreting: Provides quality OIS-registered ASL-English interpreters in a variety of life settings, including: medical/health/dental, mental health/counselling services, social services, employment settings, educational, legal, personal business, government services. Also provides English-American Sign Language interpretation between deaf and hearing people. As well, offers after-hours emergency interpreting.
• Hearing Care Counselling: Enhances the independence of persons with hearing loss (mainly seniors) through education, guidance and technology.
• Communication Devices/Access: Provides consultations, demonstrations and sale of listening devices to deaf, deafened and hard-of-hearing people.
• General Support Services: Provides support to those who are deaf, deafened or hard of hearing, their families and community members by helping them cope with daily life issues.
• Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC): Provides an opportunity for deaf newcomers to Canada to learn basic reading, writing and comprehension of English.
• Sign Language Program: Provides sign language instruction via classes, special contracts and tutorials by trained deaf instructors.
• Information Services: Coordinates volunteers and special events, provides information and referrals, and produces a local newsletter.
• Mental Health and Wellness Program: Counselling for deaf, deafened or hard-of-hearing people.

Canadian Mental Health Association - Peel Branch

Resource Centre:
2 County Court Blvd., Suite 102
Brampton, ON L6W 3W8
Phone: 905-451-2123 | Fax: 905-456-7492
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Website: www.cmhapeel.ca

Agency Mandate
To enhance the well being of all people in our community by promoting and supporting good mental health.

Agency Programs

• Resource Centre: Offers information and referral, library services, awareness and education. Serves as the front door to CMHA/Peel and its Intake Services.
• Concurrent Disorders Crisis Management: Offers training and clinical support to agencies in Peel that work with people who have or may have a concurrent disorder. Also within the Resource Centre.
• Consumer/Survivor Support Network: Provides opportunities for adults with mental health problems to reduce isolation and develop social support through social recreation at a drop-in centre, outreach activities, and delivering and helping to establish self-help groups.
• Youth Net: A "by youth, for youth" mental health promotion and early identification program serving 12-20-year-olds.
• ACT (Assertive Community Treatment): Transdisciplinary team serves clients with the most serious mental illnesses.
• Access to Recovery Case Management: Case managers assist clients to achieve a satisfactory quality of life, with support from the client's family and other agencies and service providers.
• Davidson Scholarship: Provides annual awards to consumers to pursue study at a recognized teaching institution. The education may ultimately prepare someone to return to work or give them the skills and confidence to apply for their first job.
• FACT Peel+: Case managers provide clients leaving the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health's FACT Peel program with ongoing community support.
• Homeless Outreach: Provides direct outreach to, and engagement of, people with mental illness and/or addictions who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Operates the Street Helpline in Peel Region.
• Housing And Support Peel (HASP): Supportive housing for people with a serious mental illness who are homeless or at imminent risk of being homeless.
• McEvenue Home Works: One-time financial assistance to help individuals with a serious mental illness maintain/obtain housing.
• Mental Health & Justice Services: Provides support to persons who have committed a nonviolent minor offence with an underlying cause of mental illness (Diversion, consultation, short-term case management), as well as custodial facility discharge planning.
• PAR Clubhouse: A community-based psychosocial rehabilitation, adult day program focused on a work-ordered day. Provides employment and housing support to its members.
• Partnerships: Written agreements with other service providers to deliver services that address mental health and/or serious mental illness, as well as acting as a "paymaster" for the LHIN with full accountability for specific programs of other providers e.g. financial mgmt., client outcomes
• Program/Service Development and Support: Undertaken in collaboration with community partners to identify needs and gaps in services impacting mental health in Peel Region and to take initiative in developing needed programs and resources.

Carefirst Seniors & Community Services

Administration Office:
3601 Victoria Park Ave, Suite 501
Scarborough, ON M1W 3Y3
Phone: 416-502-2323 | Fax: 416-502-2382
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Mississauga Community Services Centre:
1177 Central Parkway West, Unit 81
Golden Square Centre
Mississauga, ON L5C 4P3
Phone: 905-361-2479| Fax: 905-361-1082
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Website: www.carefirstseniors.com

Agency Mandate
To ensure that Chinese seniors and, where appropriate, others in need of services in the Greater Toronto Area and the vicinity, live a quality and enriched life in the community.

Agency Programs

• Volunteer Development Program: Provides volunteer training programs and assistance in service delivery.
• Community Social Programs: Offers a variety of community outreach and education programs including self-help groups, community development, wellness education and health promotion, community linkage, "Seniors Caring for Seniors" outreach and an elderly persons drop-in centre.
• Home Support Services: Home support services include escorts to medical appointments, telephone security checks, friendly visiting, grocery shopping, client intervention and assistance, home help, homemaking, congregate dining and transportation.
• Information and Referral: Drop-in information/referral clinic and telephone enquiries.
• Elder Abuse Education Program: Mobile outreach team provides education seminars throughout the community, interactive learning workshops through skits and role plays and elder abuse resources centre.

Catholic Cross-cultural Services

Mississauga Office:
3660 Hurontario Street, 7th Floor
Mississauga, ON L5B 2T5
Phone: 905-273-4140 | Fax: 905-273-4176

LINC Classes:
4557 Hurontario Street, Unit #B11
Mississauga, ON L4Z 3M2
Phone: 905-272-1703 Fax: 905-272-8690

Brampton Office:
8 Nelson Street West, Suite 302
Brampton, ON L6X 5A5
Phone: 905-457-7740 | Fax: 905-457-7769

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Website: www.ccspeel.org

Agency Mandate
To provide services to recent immigrants and refugees that assist in their settlement and integration into Canada, and enhancing their participation in the economic, cultural and social life of the community. Services are provided to all regardless of the religion, country of origin or immigration status.

Agency Programs

• Settlement Services: Provides assistance to immigrant families, individuals and seniors to help them achieve successful settlement and integration.
• Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC): Teaches English to immigrants at Levels 1 through 7. Childminding for preschool children is provided free of charge.
• Violence Against Women: Provides a safe environment for immigrant women experiencing domestic violence with counselling, ongoing support, group support, and referral services.
• Post Settlement Program: Assists long-term immigrants in accessing community services and enhancing their participation in community life through information and orientation sessions and individual and group support.
• Job Search Workshop Program: Assists recent immigrants to identify skills, write effective resumes, prepare for job interviews, access hidden job markets, connect to mentoring opportunities and conduct successful job searches through group support and one-on-one counselling.

Catholic Family Services of Peel-Dufferin

Brampton office:
10 Gillingham Drive, Unit 201
Brampton, ON L6X 5A5
Phone: 905-450-1608 | Fax: 905-450-8902

Mississauga office:
10 Kingsbridge Garden Circle, Unit 400 Mississauga, ON L5R 3K6
Phone: 905-897-1644 | Fax: 905-897-2467

Caledon satellite office:
18 King Street East, Unit D8
Bolton, ON L7E 1E8
Phone: 905-450-1608 | Fax: 905-450-8902

Orangeville satellite office:
Dufferin Child and Family Services
655 Ridell Road
Orangeville, ON L9W 4Z5
Phone: 1-888-940-0584

Call 905-450-1608 ext.112 to register for any counselling programs.

Website: www.cfspd.com
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Agency Mandate
To enhance individual, family and community life in a manner that reflects the values and traditions consistent with the Catholic faith. Service is provided to persons of all faiths and creeds.

Agency Programs

• Individual, Couple and Family Counselling: Individual, Couple and Family services strive to improve relationships, reduce emotional distress and enhance personal well-being.
• Partner Abuse Counselling: Provides individual counselling and a variety of group counselling programs to help victims of abuse protect themselves from further abuse and to promote healing from the effects of past abuse.
• Helping End Abuse for Life (HEAL) Network: Organized in collaboration with other agencies, programs are designed to help children and adolescents deal with the experience of witnessing woman abuse, and to help them to learn ways to feel better about themselves and not feel responsible for the abuse in their family.
• Pars Program: Helps male perpetrators of woman abuse learn to stop their abusive behaviours.
• Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse (Sexual Assault) Counselling: Provides individual counselling to men and women who were abused as children.
• Community Support Program: Trains volunteers to provide service to clients and the community.
• Walk In Counselling Clinics: For individuals, couples and families. Walk in hours: Mississauga on Tuesdays from 12:30 – 7:30 p.m. Brampton on Thursdays from 12:30 – 7:30 p.m.
• Sistering: a volunteer program for women who have experienced violence, trauma or other forms of oppression. The Sisters are at a stage in their personal healing where they are able to offer support to other women who would benefit from having another woman journey with them during their healing process.

CNIB - Halton-Peel

1270 Central Parkway West, Suite 100
Mississauga, ON L5C 4P4
Phone: 1-888-275-5332 | Fax: 905-275-7710 | TTY: 905-275-4409
Website: www.cnib.ca

Agency Mandate
To enhance independence for people with vision loss and to be the leader in promoting vision health.

Agency Programs

• Low Vision Services: Provides professional assessments and instruction on how to maximize vision using magnifiers, lighting, contrasting colours and textures.
• Counselling and peer support: Helps people face the emotional and practical challenges of vision loss.
• Independent Living Skills instruction: Professional instructors provide training to help manage the essentials of daily living, with an emphasis on maintaining independence.
• Orientation and mobility instruction: Professional instructors give individual instruction to ensure individuals can move around safely and independently wherever they want to go.
• CNIB Library: Provides clients of all ages access to books and magazines in Braille, PrintBraille in CD format in French and English. Tapes in some languages can be arranged through the Library of Congress.
• Consumer products: Canada's largest supplier of innovative consumer products for people experiencing vision loss
• Specialized Training: Offers computer technology courses and other programs to help individuals manage the essentials of daily living, emphasizing independence.
• Deafblind Services: Ensures deaf-blind persons have access to information and are able to pursue educational, vocational, avocational and social goals.
• Early Intervention Services: Provides case management and hands-on instruction to children (0-6) who have vision loss and to their families.

Community Living Mississauga

6695 Millcreek Drive, Unit 1
Mississauga, ON L5N 5R8
Phone: 905-542-2694 | Fax: 905-542-0987
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Website: www.clmiss.ca

Agency Mandate
Supports individuals who have an intellectual disability to ensure their life in the community is meaningfully improved.

Agency Programs

• Children's Summer Support Program: Provides children aged 3-12 with one-to-one support while they attend the summer day camp of their choice.
• Summer Teen Activity Program: Offers youth aged 13-21 a summer day camp opportunity with activities such as laser tag, mini golf, swimming, movies etc.
• Summer Work Experience: Provides young people aged 16-21 with the opportunity to work at typical summer jobs and gain valuable work experience.
• Service Coordination: Provides connections to community resources, funding sources and future planning.
• Residential Supports: Support is provided to individuals to live in the community in houses, townhomes and apartments.
• Employment: Helps individuals achieve employment goals in the community.
• Day Activities: Three base sites offer activities such as literacy, cooking and computer skills.
• Community On Campus: In partnership with University of Toronto at Mississauga, adults participate in on-campus experience.
• Preschool Services: Provides Resource Teaching support to children aged 2 to 6 and their families, and promotes the inclusion of children into community child care programs.
• Social Opportunities: Facilitates evening social activities for youth and adults.
• Respite Opportunities: Provides Friday evening and Saturday daytime recreational opportunities for youth.
• Community Connect: Facilitates connections between individuals and supports them to maximize their community participation.