Please Note: Services may be impacted in response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
Please contact any service prior to visiting in person to receive up to date information on changes to their availability (e.g. hours of operation etc.)
Please contact any service prior to visiting in person to receive up to date information on changes to their availability (e.g. hours of operation etc.)
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Located near Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay
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Assists men to end the use of abusive parenting strategies
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Telephone crisis support continues to operate 24/7. In Thunder Bay, call 807-346-8282, or in the district, call toll-free at 1-888-269-3100. Mobile Unit and Crisis Support Residence currently suspended due to covid-19.
CMHA branches are open but many are offering alternative service delivery at this time
Service delivery may be provided:
Follow this link to determine how service delivery is being provided by choosing the appropriate CMHA location from the website's drop down list.
- Provides 24/7 telephone support
- Offers an 8 hour mobile unit to provide in-person crisis assessment
- Operates a short-term Crisis Support Residence
- Crisis assessment and intervention
- Follow-up
- Referrals to other community services
- Support to family and friends
- Wellness Planning
CMHA branches are open but many are offering alternative service delivery at this time
Service delivery may be provided:
- in person
- by phone
- PCVC - Personal computer video conferencing
- OTN - Ontario Telemedicine Network
- ZOOM - Video/web conferencing platform
Follow this link to determine how service delivery is being provided by choosing the appropriate CMHA location from the website's drop down list.
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807-345-1972
114 Centennial Square
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 1H3
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 1H3
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Provides legal assistance for low-income people
Services include:
Services include:
- Legal representation for eligible clients who appear in court without a lawyer
- Legal aid applications and information over the phone
- Legal resources and referrals to other social assistance agencies
- A certificate program for complex and serious cases
- Criminal
- Domestic violence
- Family
- Wrongful dismissal
- Change of name
- Personal bankruptcy
- Power of attorney
- Money lent to others or money owed to others
- Sponsorship of relatives
- Commercial litigation
- Real estate matters and libel
- Defamation and slander
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807-346-2950
114 Centennial Square
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 1H3
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 1H3
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Assists individuals with family law issues who are being assisted by Legal Aid Ontario
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807-624-3400
St Joseph's Health Care Centre; 710 Victoria Ave E
Thunder Bay, ON, P7C 5P7
Thunder Bay, ON, P7C 5P7
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- Offers an out-patient mental health program with a multidisciplinary approach to treating a variety of mental health issues
- Provides individual counselling
- Emphasizes skill based training and other integrative educational strategies to help clients achieve their goals
- Anger Management Group
- Anxiety (Understanding Anxiety)
- Assertion Group
- Communication Group
- Depression (Understanding Depression)
- Family Issues Group
- Feeling Good Group
- Life
- Living with a Loss Group
- Men's Group
- Relationships Group
- Self-Esteem
- Soul (Returning to Soul)
- Spirituality Group
- Stress Management
- This Is Your Life - A Peer Support Group
- Wellness Group
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620 Victoria Ave E, 2nd Floor
Thunder Bay, ON, P7C 1A9
Thunder Bay, ON, P7C 1A9
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- Helps individuals navigate the judicial system
- Explains legal rights and court procedures
- Provides Courtworkers who act as a liaison between the offender, the courts and the Aboriginal Community Council Program (ACCP)
- Provides counselling, referrals, follow-up and encouragement to offenders to become contributing members of the community
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138 May St S
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 1B3
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 1B3
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- Provides professional counselling services
- Offers faith-based counselling if requested
- Offers the Family Strengthening program
- Abuse and neglect
- Addictions
- Depression and anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Residential school experiences
- Self-esteem and identity
- Trauma
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125 Syndicate Ave S, Unit 5
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 6H8
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 6H8
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- Assists abused women in making the transition to an abuse-free life
- Helps women secure and maintain housing
- Helps with safety planning and developing short and long-term goals
- Provides transportation assistance
- Counselling
- Education upgrading
- Health and wellness services
- Housing
- Income support
- Job training
- Legal aid
- Parenting support
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125 Syndicate Ave S, Unit 5
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 6H8
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 6H8
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- Provides holistic healing services
- Offers individual and group counselling
- Anger Management for Women (court approved)
- Child Witness
- Drumming Group
- Grief Counselling?
- Sacred Circle
- Sexual Abuse/Sexual Assault healing
- Support for Indigenous Trafficking Survivors
- Women Living Free From Violence Group
- Women's Addiction Program
- Walk-in Counselling
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125 Syndicate Ave S, Unit 5
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 6H8
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 6H8
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Offers weekly walk-in counselling on a first-come, first-served basis
Types of counselling include:
Types of counselling include:
- Abuse/Sexual Abuse Trauma
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Depression and anxiety
- Grief
- Residential School trauma
- Provides seminars on health issues such as depression, diabetes and parenting teens
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125 Syndicate Ave S, Unit 5
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 6H8
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 6H8
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- Provides safe housing and support services to women leaving an abusive situation
- Operates 14 transitional and 12 permanent housing units with rent geared to income
- Provides outreach services to women and children who reside in the transitional housing units
- Provides access to programs and services offered through Beendigen
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- Offers culturally appropriate counselling services to Indigenous women by Indigenous women, via telephone, text or chat
- Offers services in 14 languages, including the following:
- Oji-Cree
- Cree
- Algonquin
- Inuktitut
- Mohawk
- Oneida
- Odawa
- Potawatomi
- Micmac
- Black Foot
- Anishinaabe
- Moose Cree
- Swampy Cree
- English
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Due to the recent developments related to COVID-19, Beendigen's offices located in Victoriaville Mall, Syndicate Avenue, Luci Court and on Fort William First Nation will be closed effective immediately.
Beendigen is continuing to operate and provide services during this stressful time by providing shelter, telephone counselling, and crisis support.
Please note the new procedure that is in effect: when a woman comes into the isolation unit at the crisis home, she will be tested and if the test comes back negative, she can be moved into the main part of the crisis home. This will shorten the 14-day isolation period and allow to get more women into the home
807-622-1121
Toll-free crisis line 1-888-200-9997 or in Thunder Bay 807-346-HELP (4357)
Toll-free lines are open 24/7
Beendigen is continuing to operate and provide services during this stressful time by providing shelter, telephone counselling, and crisis support.
Please note the new procedure that is in effect: when a woman comes into the isolation unit at the crisis home, she will be tested and if the test comes back negative, she can be moved into the main part of the crisis home. This will shorten the 14-day isolation period and allow to get more women into the home
807-622-1121
Toll-free crisis line 1-888-200-9997 or in Thunder Bay 807-346-HELP (4357)
Toll-free lines are open 24/7
- Provides emergency shelter for women and children who require safe accommodations and are seeking refuge from abuse
- Allows women and children to stay up to 6 weeks
- Crisis and supportive counselling
- Safety planning
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807-345-0450
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- Functions as an independent, non-profit cross-sectoral committee dedicated to ending violence against women
- Engages in systemic advocacy to improve the development and coordination of services for those affected by violence against women
- Works to ensure better enforcement of the laws to protect woman abuse survivors and their children
- Assists in community education on violence against women
- Represents the areas of women's services, child welfare, women's shelters, justice systems, police services, multicultural associations and other members of the community
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- Operates a 24-hour crisis line for Indigenous women and their children
- Provides immediate crisis assessment, intervention, referrals and follow-up
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710 Victoria Ave E, Victoriaville Centre, 3rd Fl
Thunder Bay, ON, P7C 5P7
Thunder Bay, ON, P7C 5P7
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Supports individuals who were sexually abused by convicted pedophile Ralph Rowe
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Open during the pandemic. Call the 24-hour crisis line at 807-345-0450, text 807-700-5011, or use the 24-hour chat line at https://fayepeterson.org/ to access services.
- Operates a shelter for abused women, youth and their children who have been victims of physical, emotional, sexual or financial abuse
- Provides crisis services, confidential counselling, information and referral, and victim advocacy
- Provides public education and follow-up services where possible
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Open during the pandemic. Call the 24-hour crisis line at 807-345-0450, text 807-700-5011, or use the 24-hour chat line at https://fayepeterson.org/ to access services.
- Provides support, education, information and community awareness to both residents of the shelter as well as former residents
- Works with women in the application of and follow through with housing
- Accompanies and advocates for women regarding Ontario Works
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Open during the pandemic. Call the 24-hour crisis line at 807-345-0450, text 807-700-5011, or use the 24-hour chat line at https://fayepeterson.org/ to access services.
Provides the following support services to women 50 and older:
Provides the following support services to women 50 and older:
- Advocacy
- Assistance with housing applications
- Individual and group counselling
- Legal aid and court appointments
- Safety planning
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Open during the pandemic. Call the 24-hour crisis line at 807-345-0450, text 807-700-5011, or use the 24-hour chat line at https://fayepeterson.org/ to access services.
Provides the following services:
Provides the following services:
- Assistance in accessing employment and education
- Crisis intervention and referral services
- Individual counselling
- Support and advocacy for medical, legal and court appointments
- Support groups
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Open during the pandemic. Call the 24-hour crisis line at 807-345-0450, text 807-700-5011, or use the 24-hour chat line at https://fayepeterson.org/ to access services.
- Assists abused women and their children in making the transition to an abuse-free life
- Helps secure and maintain housing and develop an individual safety and transitional plan
- Assists women in identifying the choices and resources available for them and their children
- Advocacy
- Confidential counselling
- Crisis intervention
- Custody support
- Education upgrading
- Health and wellness support
- Housing applications and access to priority housing
- Income support and budgeting
- Legal information and support
- Parental support
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Open during the pandemic. Call the 24-hour crisis line at 807-345-0450, text 807-700-5011, or use the 24-hour chat line at https://fayepeterson.org/ to access services.
- Provides information on the family court process
- Assists in documenting the history of abuse and accessing Legal Aid for family court proceedings
- Offers referrals to specialized services and supports in the community
- Teaches safety planning and assists with the development of safety plans
- Accompanies victims to court proceedings when appropriate
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807-624-5025
226 May St S
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 1B4
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 1B4
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Operates as a program under the Healing and Wellness Branch
- Developed as a new program aimed at supporting healthy and whole Métis families
- Works to reduce family violence, the number of youth involved in the justice system and the number of children in care
- Focus is on providing direct one-on-one client services and educational resources and family wellness planning
- After school safe places and homework clubs
- Assistance in navigating the community support system
- Assisting children and youth to foster self-identity and to develop life skills
- Court-related supports
- Empowering parents to be their children's best advocates
- Ensuring families have their basic needs met
- Guidance for building healthy relationships and raising awareness of personal safety issues
- Peer support for youth involved in justice and correction issues
- Referrals for employment and training programs
- Supports for children and youth who have experienced or witnessed violence
- Supports for Métis youth to stay in school
- Support in case meetings and conferencing
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807-623-5355
315 Syndicate Ave S
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 1E2
Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 1E2
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Works in partnership with First Nation communities to assist youth in conflict with the law and their families
- Involves youth in appropriate community activities and encourages more traditional healthy lifestyle choices
- Refers youth to appropriate agencies, community supports and/or treatment
- Provides clinical counselling
- Educates youth about the criminal justice system
- Coordinates appropriate workshops
- Addictions and substance abuse
- Anger Management
- Bullying
- Creative Life Skills
- Family Violence
- Life skills
- Self-esteem
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807-623-8511
131 Archibald St N
Thunder Bay, ON, P7C 3X7
Thunder Bay, ON, P7C 3X7
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Helps Aboriginal children and families who are residing in the Thunder Bay District better access Dilico's health, mental health, addictions, and child welfare services through a city location
Health services that can be accessed at this site include:
Health services that can be accessed at this site include:
- Adult Mental Health Worker
- Concurrent Disorder Case Manager
- Diabetes program
- Health Services Manager
- Intake and Aftercare workers
- Primary care
- Transitional aged service workers
- Walk-in medical clinic
- Youth Outreach Workers
- Youth in transition worker
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