Agencies & Programs

COMMUNITY LIVING community with presentations and workshops on Active Listening, • 4 Employment Resource Centres (for any person/any age) • Aid to individuals with developmental Suicide Prevention and DCD Service • SmartServe Training delays to achieve a place in the community • Co-op program provides specialty training to selected • Service Excellence Training • Vocational and residential services students over the age of 18 • Community Education/Public Speaking • Summer programs and family support Crisis Line ...... (905)433-1121 • Project X-Change & Substance Abuse Counselling Oshawa/Clarington ...... (905)576-3011 Durham Region Phone Number ...... 1-800-452-0688 Oshawa ...... (905)579-8482 Ajax, Pickering and Whitby ...... (905)427-3300 Oshawa Office...... (905)723-4461 Clarington...... (905)623-6814 Durham North ...... (905) 985-8511 Whitby...... (905)666-8847 DURHAM DEAF SERVICES BETHESDA HOUSE • Literacy program for Deaf adults NAVY LEAGUE OF CANADA • Shelter and support for abused women and their children • Sign language instruction • Training for young people between the ages of 10 and 18 years • Education and counselling services • Interpreting services in citizenship, self-discipline, community involvement, band, Clarington...... (905)623-6045 • Family Communication program seamanship and sailing • Support services Oshawa ...... (905)723-7433 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF • Children’s programs OSHAWA & WHITBY • Public education presentations SALVATION ARMY COMMUNITY • Provides adult role models for boys and girls • Resource centre SERVICES • In-school mentoring program • Workshops • Food – to those in need • Couples for kids • Information and referral • Counselling – family or single • Child safety program • Home to the Durham Deaf Club • Camp for underprivileged children • Big Bunch activity program Oshawa ...... (905)579-3328 • Trusteeship Oshawa ...... (905)579-2551 • Court and jail work COMMUNITY CARE DURHAM – • Clothing and some furniture BIG BROTHERS & SISTERS OF HOME SUPPORT • Gals Lifeskills Coffee House CLARINGTON • Foot care clinic Oshawa ...... (905)723-7422 ...... Clarington...... (905)623-6646 • Home help Whitby (905)430-3454 • Home maintenance BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF • Meals on wheels SIMCOE HALL SETTLEMENT HOUSE NORTH DURHAM • In-home respite • Food Bank Services • Children’s After School Program Port Perry ...... (905)985-3733 • Escorted transportation / errands • Visiting • Rainbows For All Children BLOCK PARENTS • Telephone security checks • Sun Fun Day Camp • Provides police screened “safe refuge” in an • Information and referral • Fitkidz Program emergency for children and adults. • Assistance with government forms • Life Skills Coaching For Adults • Works in conjunction with police and school boards. • Adult day program • Parent Coaching Program • Children Of Separation and Divorce Seminars Oshawa ...... 1-800-563-2771 COPE MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM • One to One support • Seniors Lunch and Leisure Program SCOUTS CANADA • Group support • Christmas Food Drive • Boys 5-7 Beavers, Boys 7-11 Wolf Cubs and Boys 11-14 Scouts, Services vary in each area, but information is available on other Oshawa ...... (905)728-7525 Youth 14-17 Venturers, Youth 18-26 Rovers agencies which provide specific services . VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES • Summer camps, summer residential camps and summer Oshawa Branch ...... (905)434-1691 • Covering the entire region of Durham Whitby Branch ...... (905)668-6223 adventure camps • Private pay nursing services in home ...... Clarington Branch ...... (905)623-2261 White Pine Council (905)571-1346 • Mental Health case management program Whitby...... (905)668-6303 • Educational sessions for business & industry DURHAM REGION UNEMPLOYED • Alzheimer community support volunteer program CNIB HELP CENTRE • Pet therapy volunteer visiting • Counselling and referral • 3 day job club • Foot care program • Visual Aids, Assessment and Training • Job development • Influenza clinics • Personal Home Management Training • Free use of computers, internet, fax and photocopier • Friendly Visitor program • Talking Book Library Program • Internet training • Educational program for caregivers of developmentally challenged • Independent and Safe Travel Training • Workshops for new Canadians clients...... All services free to unemployed and under-employed adults, Oshawa (905)436-7732 Oshawa ...... (905)571-3151 25 years or over. Appointment required. CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH Oshawa ...... (905)579-1821 YMCA DURHAM REGION ASSOCIATION • Membership campus with fitness, health and recreation Durham Branch EASTVIEW BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ CLUB programs for children, youth, adults • Club Central and New Horizons – psychosocial rehabilitation • Open all year round • Membership Assistance program for ex-psychiatric adults • Two locations, Eastview and Northview • Swimming lessons • Supportive Housing, Case Management, Housing • General membership program for children and • Family Resource Centres with toy lending libraries Outreach, Public Education, Counselling youth from 6-18 years of age • Summer day camps, nursery school programs, licensed child care • Resource Centre for Wellness and Learning • Teen programs • Supervised Access program for children and their Oshawa ...... (905)436-8760 • Youth and Family Support divorced/separated parents • Leisure and Social activities • Tutoring for elementary school children CANADIAN RED CROSS • Nursery School program – 2 1/2-5 years of age • Youth Leaders Corps Humanitarian organization which provides services to improve the • Aquatic programs – all ages Durham Family YMCA ...... (905)438-0822 lives of the vulnerable. Services include; • Wood working – all ages • Disaster Services • Saturday program YWCA OF DURHAM • Health Care Equipment • Special Events • Emergency accommodation for women and their children • Water Safety, First Aid, Injury Prevention • Breakfast Club program • Counselling and accommodation services for abused women • Respect ED • Drama Club • Recreational programs for all ages • International relief, development and education - channeling . . . • Torch Club • Fitness certification courses donations and information to assist stricken countries • Girl’s night, Boy’s night and sports night Oshawa ...... (905)576-8880 Oshawa ...... (905)723-2933 • Computer program Clarington...... (905)623-9922 No child or youth shall be turned away for lack of funds CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES OF Oshawa ...... (905)728-5121 DURHAM SPECIAL GRANTS 2003 • family, individual, marital, group counselling GIRL GUIDES OF CANADA • Children’s Community Fair • groups for abused women, children exposed to violence, sexually • Sparks 5-6 years • Clarington Youth Advisory Committee abused children, teens and adult women; anger management and • Brownies 7-8 years • Interchurch Health Ministries parenting groups • Guides 9-12 years • Learning Disabilities Association of Peterborough Oshawa ...... (905)725-3513 • Pathfinders 12-15 years • Racing Against Drugs • Rangers, cadets, junior leaders • Rose of Durham CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY • Adults – Women 18 and older working with girls and other • Volunteer Resource Centre ASSOCIATION DURHAM INC. women • Emergency Accommodation for Men Oshawa ...... (905)723-2442 SPECIAL GRANTS 2004 • Transitional Housing for Men • Brock Youth Centre • Transitional Program for Offenders JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY • Brock Community Centre • Rent-Geared-To-Income Apartments for single men and • Learning Alternatives (Adult education in reading/spelling/math) • Clarington Youth Centre women in Durham • Access to Affordable Housing • InterChurch Health Ministries Oshawa ...... (905)433-0254 • Residential Program • Learning Disabilities Association of Peterborough • Active Parenting Today (groups for parents of children 0-4, 2-12, • Literacy Council of Durham DISTRESS CENTRE OF DURHAM and teens) • North Durham Hospice REGION • Anger Management (Group & Individual) • Oshawa Children’s Community Fair • Confidential 24 hour volunteer telephone helpline, offering • Counselling (Group & Individual for many Issues) • Oshawa Cares emotional support, crisis intervention and suicide prevention • Firehouse Youth (Clarington only) • Racing Against Drugs • Callers are given the opportunity to have anonymous, • DADS (Dads Aiming for Direction and Support) non-judgemental human contact • Job Connect (for youth age 16-24) • “Prevention Through Education” program provides the • Summer Jobs Service (for students age 15-24) Dogood something for your community

Our 7 Funding Priorities

• Helping the disabled

• Giving kids a chance

• Compassionate Care

• Health supports

• Education supports

• Training

• Basic needs United Way

OSHAWA • WHITBY • CLARINGTON • BROCK & SCUGOG 345 Simcoe Street South, Oshawa, Ontario L1H 4J2 Phone: (905) 436-7377 www.unitedwayowc.com The United Way ensures that your donation 1. Development of stays in your community. The United Way Social Engagement ensures that one campaign for so many and Responsibility different service needs delivers maximum Your donation helps us impact and efficiency to you. The United fund programs which Way ensures that your donation helps to develop tolerance, respect and a sense of social address priority needs in the community. obligation. We fund programs which develop The United Way helps you do good easily early life skills, and which and efficiently. promote self respect and 1 self confidence in children. With our funding priorities, you may help as broadly or as specifically as you wish, IT’S YOUR CHOICE. Whether you choose to 2. Better Education direct your donation to a specific funding Your donation helps to develop area, or provide for your gift to assist in all social and literacy skills as well areas of need, our guarantee to you is that as helping to develop better your donation will address priority needs technical/computer skills. This IN THIS COMMUNITY. contributes to the expansion of the base of general knowledge.

The United Way provides support which addresses a great variety of need. However, there is a common denominator. In each and every instance, OUR PRIORITY IS HELPING PEOPLE. 2 6. Improved Provision of Basic Needs with confidence - Your donation helps to Giving the United Way provide the most essential and elemental needs of an individual. Principally, but • Your donation stays in your community not exclusively, you will • Administrative overhead are kept to a minimum help to provide food, shelter • You may support as broadly or as specifically as you choose and clothing to those not • You support a planned approach which minimizes service able to provide or supply for overlaps and duplications themselves. • United Way volunteers and staff monitor programs and outcomes 3

3. Improved Access Do to Training something good Your donation helps to provide vocational, job • Help children get a better start in life preparation, daily living and other life skills training. • Help someone with basic shelter or nutritional needs Additionally, our priority • Help make the life of a senior a little more enjoyable includes resource programs • Help someone with a disability to assist parents, families or • Help build yourself a stronger community individuals.

With a single donation to the United Wa 4. Increased Provision of Service for the Disadvantaged Tax Benefits Your donation will help to provide better access, life skills, or mobility Your donation to the United Way allows you to take advantage of a training for physically disadvantaged tax deduction provided for by federal legislation (against both individuals. Programs are designed to provincial & federal tax payable. develop self reliance and independent For donations up to $200 you receive a minimum 27% tax deduction. skills for those members of our In addition, on donation amounts above $200, you receive a community who face physical or 4 mental disadvantages. minimum of 47% tax deduction on the amount above $200.

DONATION AMOUNT 5. Compassionate Care

Your donation will provide care and $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $600 $700 $800 $900 $1000 relief of a physical or mental net cost of donation $635 min. tax credit $365 condition or help to fight social isolation. Additionally, in this area $336 $164 we help to provide assistance with $276 $124 life skills and daily living tasks for those in need. $216 $84 $156 $44 5 $78 $22

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• Support your workplace campaign 6 payroll deduction is the most efficient way to help

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7 ay, you can do a whole lot of good.