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Response to Ontario Today, “Having a hard time accessing mental health help?” October 20th episode.
For over 50 years family service agencies have been the primary source for low to moderate mental health services across Ontario. With walk-in clinics and minimal wait times for service, family service agencies are one the frontlines for mental health services.
Response to intimate partner violence is not a one size fits all approach.
As a provincial network of 42 members serving women who have experienced intimate partner violence, as well as offenders, through twenty-one of Ontario’s Partner Assault Response (PAR) programs, we believe meaningful change is needed to prevent intimate partner violence and femicide.
Ontariocounsellingfinder.ca launches to make local counselling easier access
New Ontario Counselling Finder website from Family Service Ontario provides counselling from over 40 non-profit providers across Ontario.
Solutions are needed so no one is left behind
Family service agencies play a vital role in Ontario’s mental-health eco-system. Individuals, couples, and families come to us for a variety of reasons, but often because the services they need do not exist for those without the means to pay for a private therapist.
Ontario has an opportunity to radically change mental health support
Family Service Ontario strongly agrees that a “major shift is needed” in the provision of mental-health supports to address the number of people falling through the gaps in care.
The Perfect Storm: A formidable force on mental health services
The next wave has started, and it is looking like a tsunami, with a lack of resources to respond. The next wave is the increased need for mental health, couple, and family therapy services.
Critical mental health program lost while pandemic demands surge
As a community-based counselling agency and a member of Family Service Ontario, NCCC provided outstanding service to 1,000 individuals and families each year.
Mental health, the surprise election issue
Universal access to mental health services is a welcomed theme in this election. Every day we experience firsthand individuals, youth and families who fall through the system’s gaps in care.