Agencies and Areas of Service

• BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF AJAX-PICKERING
  Provides quality volunteer adult role models to young people from our communities, initiating opportunities for friendship and personal development.   Details   Web Site

• BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF NORTH DURHAM REGION.  Provides quality volunteer adult role models to young people from our communities, initiating opportunities for friendship and personal development.    Details Web Site

• CNIB
  Provides quality rehabilitation services broadly and equitably, to blind, visually impaired and deafblind individuals to enable them to live in a manner that allows for maximum independence and integration within their community..   Details   Web Site

• CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
  To promote and enhance the mental and emotional well being of the residents of Durham Region.   Details   Web Site
  
• CANADIAN RED CROSS
  Provides emergency relief and humanitarian aid daily and in time of disaster in Canada and around the world.   Details
  
• CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES
  Works to strengthen the emotional and social functioning of individuals and families through counselling, prevention and education for all denominations.   Details   Web Site

• COMMUNITY CARE & COPE A/P
  Helps people live at home with a network of support in caring communities.   Details   Web Site

• COMMUNITY CARE & COPE UXBRIDGE
  Helps people live at home with a network of support in caring communities.   Details   Web Site

• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL DURHAM
  Seeks to create, advocate and support policies, attitudes and actions that enhance individual, family and community growth.   Details   Web Site
  

• COMMUNITY LIVING AJAX, PICKERING ,WHITBY
  Works with people who live with a developmental disability, to facilitate interdependency and full inclusion in all aspects of community life.   Details  Web Site

• COMMUNITY LIVING DURHAM NORTH
  Provides support to people with intellectual disabilities, facilitating full inclusion in all aspects of community living.   Details
  

• CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
  Endeavours to provide all necessary and possible resources and facilities to enable and re-integrate homeless and marginalized individuals into our communities.   Details   Web Site
  
• CREDIT COUNSELLING
  To assist and support individuals and families in Durham Region in finding appropriate solutions to their financial concerns.   Details   Web Site
  
• DISTRESS CENTRE DURHAM
  Crisis/suicide intervention/prevention and telephone support. Professionally trained volunteers deliver this service to over 2,000 people each year in the Ajax-Pickering and Uxbridge areas.   Details   Web Site
  
• DURHAM ASSOCIATION FOR FAMILY RESPITE SERVICES
  Provides respite, community involvement and individual living supports to children labelled with intellectual and physical disabilities and adults with intellectual disabilities in Durham Region. Nursing Program provides in home and school support to children with high medical needs.   Details

• DURHAM DEAF SERVICES
  Offers services and educational program to promote self-reliance within the deaf, deafened and hard-of-hearing community.   Details   Web Site

• DURHAM HOSPICE
  Hospice Durham is committed to enhancing the quality of life of individuals and families facing a progressive life threatening illness through volunteer support and education in partnership with the community.   Details  Web Site

• GIRLS INCORPORATED OF DURHAM
  Dedicated to inspiring all girls through mentoring and group programming to be strong, smart and bold. Programs and services clearly focus on girls’ needs with the intent of making a difference in girls’ lives and assisting them to reach their full potential.   Details  Web Site

• JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY
  A non-profit, social service agency dedicated to servicing individuals and families with programs and services to address the general aspects of family and individual relationships, employment, education, housing and crime prevention.   Details   Web Site
  

• KINARK CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
  Fully accredited by Children’s Mental Health, Ontario. Kinark delivers children’s mental health programs and services to children and their families in the Durham Region.   Details
  
• LITERACY COUNCIL
  Literacy Council of Durham Region is a community-based literacy program that offers one-to-one literacy tutoring to basic level adult learners. Learners are matched with trained literacy volunteers throughout the region.   Details
  
• PRECIOUS MINDS
  Precious Minds provides support for families with children who have barriers to learning. Details
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• ROSE OF DURHAM
  Rose of Durham provides support services to teen parents.  They offer a variety of programs that help the family build a better future.     Rose Of Durham
  
• VON
  The Victorian Order of Nurses provides health care to help clients remain in their home and to have the best possible quality of life.   Details   Web Site
  

• YWCA OF DURHAM REGION
  To provide opportunities for women’s self-development through recreational and educational programming, and supportive housing services for women and their children.   Details