The Algoma Community Care Access Centre offers a single point of access to information and a broad range of community care services in collaboration with community partners. Individuals can either call or visit us to obtain information about services to assist them, or can browse through the Web site for more detailed information. http://www.algoma.ccac-ont.ca/
Algoma Family Service is a non-profit, charitable organization providing high quality support Algoma Family Services to individuals, children, adults, and families as part of the Algoma District.
The Algoma Health Unit is committed to supporting healthy communities by providing a continuum of quality health services throughout the Algoma district. www.ahu.on.ca
The Canadian Mental Health Association – Sault Ste. Marie Branch, in partnership with consumers, volunteers, and service providers, strives to make a significant difference in the mental health of persons living in the Algoma District through a range of services that include support programs, advocacy, mental health promotion and education. www.cmhassm.com
Child Care Algoma provide a number of child care services for children and their families.
Community Living Algoma is based on a vision of equality of rights, opportunities, and responsibilities for all citizens, CLA developed goal and priority statements in important areas. All goals strive for inclusion in the community. CLA believes that people with a developmental disability must be able to access the same education, housing, employment, social, leisure, recreation, and retirement options as anyone else, and that they have the right to make informed choices about their life.
Get Street Smart website features a searchable database that includes a brief summary and contact information for more than 130 social service agencies providing over 625 programs and services in the city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. http://www.getstreetsmart.org
Group Health Centre is a progressive, multi-specialty, ambulatory care health organization and is one of Canada’s first consumer-sponsored health care facilities built with private funds donated by local union members. www.ghc.on.ca
The Indian Friendship Centre’s vision is to continue to expand in all areas of need for the community. All the our staff actively participate on internal committees, while the majority of staff serve on external job-related boards and committees, locally and provincially.
The John Howard Society of Sault Ste. Marie and District. Effective, just humane responses to crime and its punishment. www.jhsossm.ca
The local Chapter of the Learning Disabilities Association provide information and referral services. Operate a resource centre, advocate for persons with learning disabilites.
Mind Your Mind is an award winning site for youth by youth. This is a place where you can get information, resources and the tools to help you manage stress, crisis and mental health problems. Share what you live and what you know with your friends.
Nimkii-Naabkawagan Batchawana Family Crisis Shelter. A secure 10-bed facility with trained staff that offers Aboriginal & Non-Aboriginal women 16 years of age & over with or without children in any crisis with safe home-like accomodations. http://www.getstreetsmart.org/agencies/details.asp?a=63
Nog-Da-Win-Da-Min was established in 1990 as a Native Child and Family Services Agency. Its member First Nations mandated Nog-Da-Win-Da-Min to develop and implement a Native Child Welfare System that would provide culturally appropriate services to their children and families. www.nog.ca
Ontario March of Dimes. Our goal is to enhance the independence and community participation of people with physical disabilities every day through a wide range of programs and services across the province. http://www.marchofdimes.ca/dimes/
Metis Nation of Ontario The founding delegates established the fundamental principles of a representative organisation intended to reflect the values and aspirations of a proud people. Determined to avoid the failure and narrow vision evident in so many organisations driven primarily by self-interest and short-term goals, the delegates made a conscious decision against a ’corporate’ focus. Instead, they sought to bind their people together in the spirit of nation-building. www.metisnation.org
The Sault Area Hospital. We are committed to work together in creative ways to deliver or provide access to healthcare services in a respectful, caring and responsible manner. www.sah.on.ca
The Sault Ste. Marie Family YMCA is a charitable organization that promotes the development of spirit, mind and body by encouraging healthy lifestyles, personal growth and service to the community.
The Sault Ste. Marie Public Library believes in the individual’s right to access all expressions of knowledge, creativity, experience and intellectual activity. To this end, the Sault Ste. Marie Public Library provides and promotes services and resources that meet individual and community needs for information, education, recreation and personal development. http://www.ssmpl.ca/
Summit Human Services. Our mission is to provide a spectrum of services, which will enhance the quality of life for the people we serve. We are committed to the development of programs and services for families, individuals and children to receive quality care that is based on out agency’s philosophy. Rather than duplicate services that are available from other agencies, we are interested in developing strategic alliances to establish those elements that are missing from the local array of services and to serving those persons at risk of falling through the cracks in local service systems. We continue to identify, evaluate and provide services in a timely fashion to children, adolescents, and adults who experience social, emotional, behavioral, educational or psychological problems.
The United Way of Sault Ste. Marie, is a human care charitable organization, which is facilitating building an extraordinary community to address priority issues of:Poverty, Health, Crime and Employment www.ssmunitedway.ca
Victim Crisis Assistance & Referral Service. To provide crisis assistance and referral services to victims of crime or tragic circumstance at the request of police officers, fire departments and hospitals throughout the District of Algoma. http://www.algomavcars.ca/Public/index.cfm
The Waabinong Head Start Family Resource Program is an Early Intervention Program for Urban Aboriginal Preschoolers and their families. The program’s mandate is to strengthen the spiritual, mental, physical and emotional well being of the family from a holistic approach.
Women In Crisis (Algoma) Inc. Our purpose is to provide refuge, support and counselling services to abused women (and their children) and to create a society which tolerates no forms of violence against them, but seeks to establish equality for, and recognition of ’women’s value’ in all phases of our social structures. http://wicalgoma.shelternet.ca/library/SNetCore.cfm?languageid=1&skipIt=YES
Youth Service Canada. The source of infomation about programs and services available for youth at the community level and beyond. www.youth.gc.ca
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