2. Kids Help Phone
• Hotline: 1800-668-6868 (available 24/7)
• www.org.kidshelpphone.ca
• Services:
▫ A hotline that offers counselling to children 24/7
through phone or email in any community in Canada
▫ Can connect children to appropriate services within
their community
▫ Provides anonymous listening councillors to children,
right at the very moment when they need someone to
talk to
3. Children’s Aid Society of Toronto
• Hotline: (416) 924-4646 (available 24/7)
• www.torontocas.ca
• Services:
▫ Protects and takes care of the welfare of children;
Removing children from dangerous and abusive home
environment and bring them to a safer living environment.
▫ They provide foster homes for children
▫ They also offer adoption services
▫ FCC (Family Centered Conferencing) – voluntary
Family members are enabled to communicate to each other and
resolve conflicts and concerns (together with their support persons
and CAS worker)
Goal is to keep children in a safe environment and at the same time
keep families strong
4. Catholic Children’s Aid Society
• Hotline: (416) 395-1500
• www.ccas.toronto.on.ca
• Services:
▫ Protect children through performing investigation regarding
reports of abuse
Non-severe Cases: They connect them to appropriate services that
are available within the community to help resolve their issues
Severe Cases: Children are placed in the temporary care of their
relatives and friends, or foster parents
▫ Provides counselling to parents who are “service recipients”
(involve in an abuse case)
▫ Provides counselling to families involved in the abuse case; to
adoptive parents; to kin (relatives/friends) caregivers and to
foster families
5. The Gatehouse Child Abuse
Investigation and Support Site
• Contact Number: (416) 255-5900
• www.thegatehouse.org
• Address: 3101 Lakeshore Blvd West, Toronto, ON
(M8V 3W8)
• Services:
▫ The Gatehouse Investigation Support Program
(GISP)
Offered to children and their family members who are
undergoing child abuse investigations
They provide a child-friendly, non-threatening environment
where children and their families will feel safe while
investigators ask them questions regarding the child abuse case
6. ▫ The Gatehouse Group Adult Support Program (GASN)
Peer-support Program
Offered to adults who were victims/survivors of child abuse
They facilitate social-reconnection, education and self-support
skills to reduce the adult’s feeling of isolation which was brought
about by his child abuse experience
▫ Strong Youth and Strong Family Programs
For youth:
Offered to youth who have experienced child abuse
Provide age-appropriate investigation room
Provide counselling, peer support and community services that will
help the youth gain confidence and sense of belongingness
For families:
Offered to families of youth who suffered child abuse
Helps families understand the youth’s and their emotions
Inform families on how to support the child and to connect them to
community-based services
7. Boost (Child Abuse Prevention and
Intervention)
• Hotline: 1-855-424-1100 or (416) 515-1100
• www.boostforkids.org
• Address: 890 Yonge St Toronto, ON (M4W 3P4)
• Services:
▫ Committed to eliminate child-abuse through their programs
▫ Offers prevention education program that promotes early
identification of child abuse and strategies for prevention
▫ Trauma and assessment – services to children and youth
who have experienced abuse/violence; families who are
recovering from trauma due to violence/abuse.
▫ Support programs for child victims (child abuse cases) who
are undergoing criminal proceedings
8. Family Service Toronto
• Hotline: (416) 595-9618
• www.familyservicetoronto.org
• Address:
▫ 355 Church St. Toronto, ON
▫ 747 Warden Ave. Scarborough, ON
▫ 185-5th St. at L.A.M.P Etobicoke, ON
▫ 150 Berry Rd at Stonegate Etobicoke, ON
▫ 700 Lawrence Ave West North York, ON
▫ 8 Taber Rd – Rexdale Community Health Centre
9. • Services: (requires fees; fees are created based on
household income; services accessible to all income
range)
▫ Individual, couple and family counselling
▫ Help individuals, couples and families to understand
and manage difficult emotions, challenging life
situations, stress, anxiety and depression.
▫ Help build communication lines between partners,
children/youth, parents and the like, that will help
resolve and discuss relationship conflicts.
▫ Help victims of sexual or physical abuse, neglect &
violence and witnesses of domestic abuse to cope with
the trauma of their past experience.
10. • Services: (requires fees; fees are created based on
household income; services accessible to all income
range)
▫ Individual, couple and family counselling
▫ Help individuals, couples and families to understand
and manage difficult emotions, challenging life
situations, stress, anxiety and depression.
▫ Help build communication lines between partners,
children/youth, parents and the like, that will help
resolve and discuss relationship conflicts.
▫ Help victims of sexual or physical abuse, neglect &
violence and witnesses of domestic abuse to cope with
the trauma of their past experience.
