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Barrier Focused Resources

Covid Stress

Bipolar Disorder & OCD

Suicide

​Canada-Wide 

On

Newfoundland and Labrador:

  • Mental Health Crisis Line - 888-737-4668

Nova Scotia:

  • Communities Addressing Suicide Together (CAST) - 902-466-6600

  • Mental Health Mobile Crisis Team - 902-429-8167 / 888-429-8167

Manitoba:

British Columbia:

  • Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre - 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433)

  • Vancouver Island Crisis Line - 888-494-3888

  • YouthInBC.com  - 24/7 Crisis Chat 12:00 pm - 1:00 am PST (Canada only) Email youthinbc@crisiscentre.bc.ca Allow two-day response time

  • Extensive Listings

  • Youthspace.ca - Crisis Chat 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm PST / Crisis Text 778-783-0177 / Forums   Email youthtalk2@pcfsa.org / Resources

Alberta

Sexual Assault/Violence/Health

Canada -wide 

British Columbia ​

Offering Free HIV Self Test Kits:

  • Sexual Harassment - Learn your rights when harassment involves conduct of a sexual nature, as well as options if you’re sexually harassed.

  • British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal - Human right complaints 

  • Legal Aid BC - Free legal help for BC residents 

  • Rise: Women's Legal Centre - unbundled legal services (primarily in family law) for clients otherwise unable to access legal help., Our clients include people who are economically disadvantaged, members of marginalized groups, and people seeking protection from family violence., We also provide legal support to advocates, transition house workers, settlement, and community workers across the province.

Victoria

Vancouver Island

Alberta

Edmonton​

​Creating a collaborative, coordinated, diverse, community response to family violence, strengthening community capacity to take constructive action against family violence.

Women's Second Stage Housing

Offering Free HIV Self Testing kits:

Contact:  jesse.murray@ourhealthyeg.ca or 
 connect@ourhealthyeg.ca

HIV Edmonton   

Contact: juan.u@hivedmonton.com or jonah.e@hivedmonton.com

Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (iSMSS)
University of Alberta
Contact:  lieb@ualberta.ca, mapeters@ualberta.ca or cwyness@ualberta.ca

LGBTQ+ Wellness Centre Contact: sarah.alexander@ualberta.ca,
manager@wellnesscentre.ca

Medi-Drugs Millcreek
Contact: dpmoulto@ualberta.ca

Manitoba​

Offering Free HIV Self-testing Kits:

Winnipeg

New Brunswick 

Newfoundland & Labrador â€‹

St.Johns

North West Territories 

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Nova Scotia​

 Bridgewater

Saskatchewan 

Sydney​

Halifax​

Taber

Wabasca

Whitecourt

St.Paul

Stand Off

Strathcona County 

Strathmore 

Pincher Creak 

Red Deer

Offer Free HIV Self Test Kits:

Rocky Mountain House 

Slave Lake

  • Northern Haven Support Society
    Phone: 780-849-4418 or 1-877-214-4418

Peace River 

Maskwacis

  • Ermineskin Women’s Shelter
    Phone: 780-585-4444 or 1-866-585-3941

Medicine Hat

Morley

  • Eagle's Nest Shelter - Phone: 403-881-2000 or 403-932-2222 if you are in immediate danger on reserve

Hinton

  • Yellowhead Emergency Shelter for Women,Phone: 780-865-5133 or 1-800-661-0937

Lac La Biche 

Lethbridge 

Lloydminster 

High River 

High Level 

  • Safe Home - Phone: 780-926-3899 or 1-888-926-0301

Grande Cashe

Grande Prarie â€‹

Edmonton

  • Lurana Shelter -  emergency shelter providing safe, secure refuge and emergency services such as meals, clothing, personal care items, transportation, and child support, as well as services related to advocacy, and staffing 24/7 for support and security. Phone: 780-424-5875

Enilda

  • Sucker Creek Emergency Women’s Shelter- Phone: 780-523-4357 or 1-866-523-2929

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Fairview

Fort McMurray

Cold Lake

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  • Camrose Women's Shelter - We are committed to providing a safe place and services for individuals and families affected by violence and abuse, Phone: 780-672-1035 or 1-877-7672-1010

  • Cantara Safe House - Phone: 403-793-2232

Calgary​

Offering Free HIV Self Test Kits :

Women's Second Stage Housing

Phone: 403-760-3200, 9 am to 5 pm weekdays, and on weekends

Ontario

Quebec 

      Toronto â€‹

Neurodivergent + Other Disabilities

Canada Wide 

Email to get started!

  • Ketogenic Diet and Epilepsy  - webinars focused on paediatric solutions and considerations of the ketogenic diet, as options for epilepsy seizure treatments

  • March Epilepsy - Edmonton Epilepsy Association 

  • Moving Through Glass - first-ever augmented reality application providing round-the-clock aid for people living with Parkinson’s.

  • Parkinson Canada - Research leading to the end of Parkinson’s,  voices of Parkinson’s to the forefront, Support helping people living with Parkinson’s. Call or Email 

  • Schizophrenia Family Strategies - tools, resources, and other forms of support 

  • Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides -Canadians with disabilities achieve greater safety, mobility and independence with a specially trained Dog Guide. Every Dog Guide partnership is unique, built on trust and meticulously trained skills to enable people to lead a more independent life.  Call or Email 

  • UCB - global biopharmaceutical company focusing on neurology and immunology disorders

British Columbia

  • Vela Canada - Assists people with disabilities in taking greater control of their lives by exploring ideas that can lead to customized, inclusive, and creative supports primarily through developing a Microboard™ or accessing Individualized Funding. Call or Email 

Calgary

Edmonton 

​A non-profit that delivers essential programs that create friendships. We empower individuals with visible and invisible disabilities to grow, succeed and belong.

Ontario​

Empower youth in work, life, and school through opportunities ​

Saskachewan 

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Addictions

Nation-wide​

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Red Deer

Grand Prairie 

Hinton

Calgary 

Edmonton

Bonnyville: (780) 826-8034

Calgary: (403) 297-5118 

Cardston: (403) 653-5283 

Edmonton: (780) 422-1302 

Fort MacMurray: (780) 793-8300  Grande Prairie: (780) 833-4991 

High Prairie: (780) 536-2136  Lethbridge: (403) 942-3003

Medicine Hat: (403) 504-1874 

Red Deer: (403) 309-3652

AHS Virtual Opioid Dependency Program - Toll Free 1-844-383-7688 Monday to Sunday 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM

  • Opioid Harm Reduction Services (Edmonton) :

Boyle Street Community Services 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM , (780) 424-4106

Boyle McCauley Health Centre Monday – Thursday 8:30 AM – 7:30 PM Friday 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM Saturday 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, (780) 422-7333

George Spady Centre 8:00 PM – 8:00 AM, (780) 424-8335

Royal Alexandra Hospital In-patients only - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, (780) 735-4111​​

  • Drug SafeReducing the harm of drugs and alcohol (Alberta)

Ontario

  • Gerstein Crisis centre -  crisis services include 24/7 telephone support, in-person mobile crisis team, community support referrals, substance use crisis management, follow-up and access to short-term crisis bed

British Columbia

  • DULF - Community coalition finding ways to prevent overdoses

PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome)


Nicole Bendayan Nutrition  - Birth control supports, health & wellness with your cycle 

Orchyd - Bluetooth connected app + case that learns and improves your period 

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