Counselling & Trauma Support
https://maureenpollardassociates.com
A counselling and education service led by social workers that helps individuals, families, and professionals navigate grief, trauma, and resilience. They offer support for traumatic losses including child death, pregnancy loss, and suicide loss, as well as training and workshops.
Support for Survivors of Abuse
https://thegatehouse.org/
A Canadian charity based in Toronto that provides trauma-informed support, peer support groups, expressive therapy, and healing programs for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Their services include safe spaces, workshops, community connection, and education.
Suicide Loss Community & Healing
https://allianceofhope.org/
A nonprofit focused on supporting people who have lost loved ones to suicide. It offers peer-to-peer connections, resources to understand and cope with grief, community forums, healing newsletters, and ways to honor loved ones — helping survivors feel less alone and more understood.
Survivors of Suicide & Homicide Loss Support
https://www.dcogt.com/survivors-of-suicide-and-homicide-loss/
A program through the Distress Centres of Greater Toronto that provides compassionate support for people grieving after a suicide or homicide. They offer safe spaces to share feelings, trained facilitators, support groups, individual and family options, and community education to aid healing.
Crisis & Emotional Support Services
https://www.lh.ca/our-services/mental-health-and-addictions/distress-centre-durham/
Part of Lakeridge Health, this centre offers emotional support, crisis management, suicide risk assessment, and referral information through trained volunteer responders. They operate a distress helpline (calls available without wait or referral) to support people in crisis.
Community Mental Health ServicesÂ
https://nhh.ca/Patients/PatientCareServices/OutpatientCare/CommunityMentalHealth
Provided by Northumberland Hills Hospital, this program supports individuals (teenagers and adults) with depression, anxiety, trauma, stress, psychosis, and other mental health challenges. Services include counselling, group and individual support, crisis intervention, walk-in counselling, early psychosis programs, housing support, and collaborative care.