Learn about your rights as a child, youth or young person.  Click here for more information.

• Rights Resource Poster (English)
• Rights Resource Poster (French)
• Information for youth 16 and 17 about protection services that are available (English)
• Information for youth 16 and 17 about protection services that are available (French)
• Quality Standards for Children/Youth Living Away from Parents (English)
• Quality Standards for Children/Youth Living Away from Parents (French)

Below, you will find a range of resources and information in the community and online that you may find helpful. 

Contact Hamilton provides intake and referral services on behalf of some specialized government funded services.  Referrals to these government funded services may only be completed through Contact Hamilton*.

Our Partners

• Centre de santé communautaire Hamilton/Niagara
• Community Living Hamilton
• Hamilton and District Extend-A-Family
• Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board
• Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board
• Lynwood Charlton Centre
• Ron Joyce Children’s Health Centre
• Rygiel Supports for Community Living
• Woodview Mental Health and Autism Services

Quick tips when seeking help:

• If you are having an emergency, call 911.
• For crisis mental health support, call COAST: 905-972-8338
• Have you called your family doctor? They may have mental health counsellors available.
• Have you called the school? They may have social workers and school-based mental health supports available?
• Have your checked you benefits? You may have coverage for private services.
• Have your searched 211 for the variety of services offered in Hamilton? https://211ontario.ca/

• Diagnostic Hub
• AccessOAP
• Ontario Autism Program
• Autism Ontario

• Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Hamilton
• Children’s Aid Society of Hamilton

• Affiliated Services for Children and Youth (ASCY)
• EarlyON Child and Family Centres
• Early Words
• Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development

• Growing Together Guide-McMaster Children’s Hospital

• Autism Ontario
• Developmental Services Ontario Hamilton-Niagara Region
• Partners for Planning
• Respiteservices.com

• CanFASD
• De dwa da dehs nye/Aboriginal Health Centre Diagnostic Clinic
• Hamilton FASD Collaborative
• Hamilton FASD Parents and Caregivers Support Group - fasd@gmail.com
• FASD ONE

Federal

• Child Disability Benefit
• Child and Family Benefits

Provincial

• Assistance for Children with Severe Disabilities (ACSD)
• Financial support for Child Care
• Ontario Child Benefit
• Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
• Ontario Works (OW)
• Special Services At Home (SSAH)

Financial Support

• Dental Care
• Easter Seals Incontinence Grant
• Jennifer Ashleigh Children’s Charity

• College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
• Dental Care
• De dwa da dehs nye/Aboriginal Health Centre
• The Hamilton Academy of Medicine
• Home and Community Care Support Services
• Hamilton Public Health
• Health Care Connect: Find a Family Doctor or Nurse Practitioner 
• Telehealth Ontario 1-866-797-0000

• De dwa da dehs nye>s Aboriginal Health Centre
• Hamilton Regional Indian Centre (HRIC)

• AFFIRM
• 2SLGBTQ Youth Line 
  Text 647-694-4275
  Call 1-800-268-9688
  Email askus@youthline.ca

• Caring for Kids New to Canada
• Refugee Hamilton Centre for Newcomer Health
• Wesley Newcomer Services

• Partners for Planning