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Advocacy and Professional Associations/Councils
Ontario & Canada
- Canadian Council on Social Development : is to develop and promote progressive social policies inspired by social justice, equality and the empowerment of individuals and communities. We do this through research, consultation, public education and advocacy.
- Canadian Child Care Federation: The Canadian Child Care Federation is a bilingual, non-profit, member-based organization that is committed to the excellence in early learning and child car
- Voices for Children: Voices for Children brings children's issues forward through timely bulletins, commentaries, and resources informed by research and practice.
International
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Board of Directors - Resources
- Pay Equity Commission: The Pay Equity Office (PEO) is responsible for implementing and enforcing the Pay Equity Act. The PEO investigates, mediates and resolves complaints under the Act. The PEO also provides programs and services to help employers, employees, and bargaining agents understand and comply with the Pay Equity Act.
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Boards of Education
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- Reporting Child Abuse: This page summarizes reporting responsibilities under Ontario's Child and Family Services Act.
- Woman Abuse and its Effects on Children: A concise handbook for students and volunteers entering the helping professions, to prepare them to recognize and respond to families in which there is or was violence at home, published by the Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System in London, Ontario.
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- Peel Infant Development :Peel Infant Development is one of many Infant Development programs across Ontario and Canada that specialize in providing services and resources for families with children who are at risk of, or have a delay in his or her development. Here we provide you with information about our services, how to contact us, as well as some other useful resources on the Internet dedicated to infant development and infant mental health in general.
- Attachment Across Cultures: This web-site was developed by St. Joseph's Women's Health Centre for the use of service providers to support them in promoting positive cross-cultural attachment practices in their programming. It came out of the findings of the project:
- The Progress of Canada's Children & Youth:The Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) has been producing Progress since 1996. This magazine-style publication provides a wealth of information on different factors that influence the health and well-being of Canadian children and youth. This 7th edition reports on many indicators, including family life, economic security, physical safety, learning, and more. Because the report tracks this information over time, it helps identify trends, successes, and challenges.
- McGill Early Intervention Reaserch Project: The Early Intervention Research Project team is working on a three year study to improve and influence Canadian public policy that effects children with developmental disabilities (0-9) and their families, researchers, practitioners and all health professionals at both the federal and provincial levels of government.
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Colleges
Universities
Cultural Organizations
- Arabtoronto: Guide to the Arabic culture and Arab community in Toronto
- Aboriginal Canada Portal: This is your single window to First Nations, Metis and Inuit online resoruces and government programs and services
- Ontario Aboriginal Calendar: A guide to social, recreational, educational, councelling and other resources and support services for Aboriginal youth in Ontario
- Toronto.com: Contains comprehensive information coverin all aspects of life in the GTA. Cultural centres or association for different ethnic groups can be found by searching the site
- Leadership and Culture: basic characteristics that point out the differences between how Eastern and Western cultural expectations of leaders differ, PDF
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- Children's Folk Games: Games children play in different languages are to be found here: English, Romanian, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, Greek and others.
- Education world: The Educator's Complete Resource Guide to the Internet. Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom.
- Boowa et Quoila: Up to ten kids is an amazing french website designed for children to learn online with access to 776 free educational games and activities
- Le petite velo rouge : French website of games, activities and animated stories catering to children 3-10years old
- Yadeeda: is the producer/distributor of the popular series ‘Easy-to-Learn Children's Songs in English,
French, and Spanish’. Since 1990, we have introduced these languages to children all over the U.S. and Canada.
Our CDs provide one of the most enjoyable ways to introduce children to a new language
- Les jeux du Lulu : French website of games, activities and animated stories catering to children 3-10years old
- Poisson rouge : A French website of differrent educational activities for children ages 4-9 years old
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Effective/Best Practices for Early Education
- College of ECE : A fact sheet about What every ECE should know about the Ontario College of Early Childhood Educators
- SpeciaLink: puts researchers, policy makers, parents, early childhood educators and directors in touch with the best inclusive practices on the frontlines of Canadian child care. SpeciaLink's goal is to expand the quality and quantity of opportunities for inclusion in child care, recreation, education, and other community settings, to young children with special needs and their families. Our findings are available to EVERYONE.
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Employment Resources
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- The Canadian Kids Page: It is meant as a jumping in point for teachers and students, and parents and children exploring the Web together.
- Discovery Channel School: DiscoverySchool.com is dedicated to making teaching and learning an exciting, rewarding adventure for students, teachers, and parents. To that end we provide innovative teaching materials for teachers, useful and enjoyable resources for students, and an entire store full of helpful learning products for parents to share with their children.
- Kids @ National Geographic: The National Geographic Society is the world's argest nonprofit scientific and educational organization. And our responsibility to kids and educators is a natural outcome of our mission: "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge."
- Kid's Stuff: websites for children and families.
- Mississauga Library: Children's Services calendar of events.
- Raffi
- Canadian Parents Online: Our goal is to make Canadian Parents Online your arm and friendly home on the net. We feel this site is a collaborative, community effort.
- The Vanier Institute of the Family: Our Vision is to make families as important to the life of Canadian society as they are to the lives of individual Canadians. Vise à mettre la famille au cœur de la société canadienne tout comme elle est au cœur de chaque citoyen et citoyenne du pays.
- Your Social Worker Gary Direnfeld - Parenting Articles: Gary Direnfeld is a social worker with more than 20 years of experience working with parents, teens and young children. Courts in Ontario, Canada have deemed Gary and expert on child development, parent-child relations, and marital and family therapy. These articles may help you with a parenting, marital or family issue.
- Robert Munsch: The offical website for Canadian children's author Robert Munsch
- Corporate Voices for Working Families : a non-partisan, non-profit corporate membership organization created to bring the private sector voice into the public dialogue on issues affecting working families
- Canadian Parents for French : Canadian Parents for French (CPF) is the national network of volunteers which values French as an integral part of Canada and which is dedicated to the promotion and creation of French Second Language (FSL) learning opportunities for young Canadians.ing opportunities for young Canadians.
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Federal
- Statistics Canada: Statistics Canada is the country's national statistical agency, with programs organized into three broad subject matter areas: demographic and social, socio-economic and economic.
Provincial
- Ministry of Children and Youth Services: The Ministry of Children and Youth Services provides funding for child care services directed to Ontario Works participants and other low income families with young children. The ministry sets standards and licenses child care programs and agencies. Funding supports fee subsidies, wage subsidies, special needs resourcing and resource centres.
- Ministry of Community and Social Services: The Ministry of Community, Family and Children's Services has two core businesses: income and employment supports; and social and community services . Services are provided to Ontarians who are vulnerable and in need, including adults, children and youth, and people with physical and developmental disabilitiesMinistry of Culture, Ontario: The Ministry of Culture encourages the arts and cultural industries, protects Ontario's heritage and advances the public library system in order to maximize their contribution to the province's economic and social vitality.
Regional/Municipal
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Child Health
- Canada Fact Sheet for Mental Health First Aid: This link will answers questions such as " Where did Mental Health First Aid come from?", "Do other countries have mental health first aid?", "How many MHFA Canada instructors are there in Canada?" and other related questions.
- How to Make First Aid & Preparedness Kits : Safety is important, so to ensure that you are not caught unprepared in an emergency; here are some handy suggestions for putting together your own personal, portable Preparedness Kit.
- Kids Mental Health: Children's Mental Health Ontario (CMHO) works to improve the mental health and well-being of children, youth and their families.
- Free Prenatal Classes: The Peel Health Department Is offering a variety of free prenatal classes to meet the needs of the peel residents.
- Peel Health: offers a wide range of public health services to ensure residents and workers can obtain credible information on preventing illness and improving the health of our community.
- Peel's Heat Alert System:The Peel Health Department has developed a heat alert system that is specific to Peel's three municipalities-Mississauga, Brampton & Caledon
- Survey of Parents of Children 0-2 years-2002: This report describes results of a telephone survey conducted with mothers who resided in Peel Region, delivered a baby in 2000 or 2001 and spoke English. Data regarding pregnancy and health, fetal alcohol syndrome, folic acid use, physical activity, reading to children, sun safety, second hand smoke and other child related issues.
- The Prenatal Education Classes: Survey of Mothers -2003 Report: This report summarizes results of a telephone survey that was conducted with a sample of mothers from the Healthy Babies/Healthy Children program who resided in Peel Region, delivered a baby between the months of May and October 2003 and spoke English.
- Hooray for Health with Arthur:This health curriculum guide is designed for teachers, after-school providers, and school nurses. Each unit explores a different early childhood health topic, offering background information, a featured ARTHUR show, classroom activities, recommended books and, in many cases, family activity sheets in English, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.
- Caring for Kids: The Canadian Pediatric Society publishes a monthly newsletter for parents with information about their child’s health and well-being.
General Health
- Anaphylaxis Canada: Anaphylaxis Canada's mission is to inform, support, educate, and advocate for the needs of individuals and families living with anaphylaxis and to support and conduct research related to anaphylaxis.
- Canadian Health Network: CHN is a billingual web-based health information service. It helps Canadians find information they are looking for on how to stay ealthy and prevent disease.
- Grief Journey: Dedicated to serving grieving people and those who want to help them.
- Health Canada: Health Canada is the federal department responsible for helping the people of Canada maintain and improve their health.
- Healthy Ontario: Healthy Ontario.com was created to provide Ontarians with a world-leading web destination for trusted health information services and advice for healthier living.
- The Local Health Integration Network (LHINs): have been created by the Government of Ontario to provide community basis for Health care planning. To begin to diliver on this road mandate, the Mississauga Halton LHIN team is holding a series of consultation forums with the public to seek our input for the development of an Integrated Health Service Plan (IHSP). The consultation sessions forums begin on May 1st.
- Kids Health : Site for children, parents and caregivers whose focus is Health
- Med Broadcast: Med Broadcast .com is a comprehensive consumer-oriented online medical resource.
- SMARTRISK: SMARTRISK is a national non-profit organization dedicated to preventing injuries and saving lives. Founded in 1992, SMARTRISK has become one of the leading injury prevention groups in Canada and enjoys international recognition and support.
- Trillium Health Centre: In partnership with many others, we positively impact the health of the individuals, families and communities we serve.
Prenatal and Postnatal Resources
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- Heartsafe Emergency Medical Solutions: is a Paramedic based service & equipment provider. Our mission is to strengthen the Chain of Survival in our communities through the early evaluation and management of life threatening injuries and illnesses. Our company provides: Emergency education & training, Onsite Paramedic service and Emergency equipment for First Aid, CPR & Automatic External Defibrillation (AED) programs.
- The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB): This agency oversees Ontario's workplace safety education and training system, provides disability benefits, monitors the quality of health care, and assists in early and safe return to work.
- SMARTRISK: is a national non-profit organization dedicated to preventing injuries and saving lives. Founded in 1992, SMARTRISK has become one of the leading injury prevention groups in Canada and enjoys international recognition and support. Why has it grown in status so quickly? Because the SMARTRISK philosophy has the potential to revolutionize the way Canadians take risks.
- Safe Kids Canada: Safe Kids Canada promotes effective strategies to prevent unintentional injuries. By building partnerships and using a comprehensive approach, we advance safety and reduce the burden of injuries to Canada’s children and youth. Our strength is that of knowledge broker – turning research into action – by providing credible programs and messages.
- Staying Alive: Staying Alive is a non-profit organization that promotes public safety and raises awareness about fire safety.
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Resources for New Canadians
- Canada Online: Canadian citizenship, federal government services, ESL and employment information for immigrants
- Canada Site: Services for You: This section provides you with an opportunity to explore Canada on line. Includes links to government departments and agencies
- Citizenship & Immigration Canada: Immigrant services include information about immigrating to Canada and living in Canada. For newcomers, returning residents, Canadian volunteers, information for settlement partners
- Cultural Profiles Project: Profiles on countries where our immigrants came from. Each profile includes a summary fact sheet an information on landscape, climate, culture, food, health, arts and literature
- Ontario Government: Information on Ontario Government, including, education, employment, business & health
- FREE Parenting Workshops! Supper & Child Care provided at no cost! 2005 -2006 List of Workshops Coming Soon.Come and learn some new skills and share everyday parenting challenges, come out to a series of free parenting workshops and networking sessions presented by the Region of Peel - Children's Services in partnership with the Family Education Centre
Newspapers and Magazines
- The Toronto Sun
- News Connect: The Virtual LReference Library's gteway to news from home and around the world. It features over a thousand news-related sites in more than 70 languages
- News Directory: Browse English language newspapers and magazines by little, contry or subject
- The Knowledge Development Centre: The knowledge Development Centre posts publications and resources available free in pdf format, covering areas such as volunteer experiences, leadership and governance, engaging and managing volunteers and corporate volunteer programs.
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Ontario Community Information Sites
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Peel Community Database
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- Peel Data Centre : Was created to give you greater access to socio-economic and planning data on Peel and the Greater Toronto Area
- City of Brampton: Our City Council, staff and volunteers are committed to working together to protect, support and enrich the quality of life of the people who live, work and play in the City of Brampton.
- City of Mississauga: Everything you need to know about the city of Mississauga.
- Town of Caledon: Everything you need to know about the Town of Caledon.
- The Credit Valley Hospital: The Credit Valley Hospital offers quality compassionate health care to the people of the growing communities of Peel and Halton.
- Region of Peel: The Region of Peel plays a leadership role in the provision of services to make Peel a healthy and safe community in which to live and work.
 PINET: Your access to information on more than a thousand resources in Peel!
- Health & Social Services
- Information and Referral Services
- Libraries throughout the Region of Peel (Brampton, Caledon, and Mississauga)
- Community Groups
- Government offices
- Family Education Centre: The Family Education Centre is a non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to enriching the quality of life for families through community based, parent-to-parent education, support and training.
- Credit Valley Conservation: Credit Valley Conservation is one of 36 conservation authorities operating in Ontario, and is a partnership of the municipalities within the Credit River Watershed. Credit Valley Conservaion is a community-based environmental organization originally formed by an Act of provincial government and dedicated to conserving, restoring, developing and managing natural resources on a watershed basis.
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- Canadian Parks and Recreation Association -The Canadian Parks and Recreation Association (CPRA) currently offers a CPRA Canadian Certified Playground Inspector Certification program to individuals who successfully complete the Theory and Practical training courses through the Canadian Playground Safety Institute (CPSI). This program will help individuals understand CAN/CSA Z614-03 “Children’s Playspaces and Equipment” and to learn how to conduct a hands-on inspection / audit of their playspace.
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- Peel Multicultural Council - The Mission of the Peel Multicultural Council, as an umbrella organization, is to promote a harmonious multicultural society in Peel, by increasing communication and by building bridges of understanding between ethno-cultural groups, institutions, and the community, and to facilitate settlement and integration of newcomers to Canada.
- National Organization for Albinism & Hypopigmentation (NOAH) - NOAH is a U.S. based nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that offers information and support to people with albinism, their families and the professionals who work with them. NOAH is operated by its members on a volunteer basis and is funded primarily by dues and contributions of its members. NOAH has also received grants from foundations and organizations for specific projects.
- Future Aids - The Braille Superstore - The Braille Superstore is a Canadian company that offers a wide variety of Brailling products for those who use, know or would like to learn Braille. A large selection of brailled books for all ages, writing tools, toys, housewares, a giftshop and a Transcription Service.
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Setting the Stage for Successful Behaviour
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- Kids Health : Site for children, parents and caregivers whose focus is Health
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Screening Tools
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- Associated Youth Services of Peel - Associated Youth Services of Peel (AYSP) is a charitable organization which strengthens the abilities of adults, children, youth and their families who are, or are at risk of, experiencing serious social, emotional or behavioral difficulties.
- Canadian Cancer Society, Mississauga - Join our team! Do you want to make a difference? Are you willing to share your skills, time and experience to help the Canadian Cancer Society make cancer history?
- Child Development Resource Connection Peel -Volunteers are the main reason we have been so successful! Our Board, Committees and Task Groups are made up of volunteers who provide expertise in a variety of areas.
- City of Mississauga - Volunteers are a valuable part of the Recreation and Parks team. The city invests time and resources to provide volunteers with an opportunity for an enjoyable and rewarding experience.
- Charity Village - Canada's supersite for the nonprofit sector --- 3,000 pages of news, jobs, information and resources for executives, staffers, donors, and volunteers. If philanthropy and volunteerism are part of your world, this is your place.
- Christian Horizons - This organization strives to provide an exceptional quality of life by offering real choices for individuals with exceptional needs and their families.
- Erinoak - Erinoak is dedicated to helping children with special needs. A comprehensive range of clinical services and family supports is provided to children and youth with multiple disabilities, complex disorders and speech delay living in Halton, Peel and, in some cases, Waterloo, Wellington and Dufferin.
- Evergreen - Every successful community and school restoration project is a reflection of the ideas, inspirations and hard work of many committed volunteers. Through the Evergreen Web site and their on-line project registry, they want to help facilitate volunteer opportunities across the country.
- Family Literacy Volunteers - Contact Leanne Ellis, Coordinator, Volunteer and Student Services at 905-791-1585, ext 7230, Advertisement Flyer, PDF
- Family Services of Peel - Family Services of Peel was established in 1971 as a non-profit, non-governmental Agency for the purpose of providing professional counselling and learning for living education services for the people of Peel.
- Georgetown Hospital Volunteer Association - Re-established in 2005, when GH was transferred to HHS, the Volunteer Association boasts over 150 volunteers. Numerous hospital programs and services benefit from the time, talents and energy shared by their volunteer teams working in both direct patient care and behind the scenes.
- Kerry's Place - Kerry’s Place Autism Services is comFamily Services of Peel was established in 1971 as a non-profit, non-governmental Agency for the purpose of providing professional counselling and learning for living education services for the people of Peel. They are committed to enhancing the quality of life of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder that will allow them to live in society.
- Milton District Hospital Auxiliary Junior Volunteers - Teens, 14 years of age and older, can apply to become a junior volunteer. As a junior volunteer you have the opportunity to gain knowledge and experience in the healthcare field. Young adult volunteers assist the nursing staff on a daily basis by assisting the nursing staff in many areas, serving customers in the hospital gift shop and visiting with patients.
- Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration - The Ontario government is providing $700,000 to 47 community organizations to host Community Volunteer Summits.The summits will enable communities to mark the International Year of Volunteers (IYV), engage in volunteer fairs, provide information on Ontario's volunteer programs and celebrate Ontario's Promise.
- Ontario March of Dimes - Their goal is to enhance the independence and community participation of people with physical disabilities every day through a wide range of programs and services across the province.
- Peel Children's Aid - Their aim is to protect children and strengthen families and communities through partnership.
- Peel Children's Centre - Peel Children's Centre is one of the largest children's mental health providers in Canada and they work collectively with other children's service providers to create a network of systems and supports for children and youth throughout the community.
- Peel District School Board - The Peel District School Board is one of Canada's largest public school boards. It serves the 776 square kilometres (125,000 hectares) of Peel Region.
- PCPC Office at (416) 410-2667 or (705) 327-5873 or at info @ pcpctoronto.org.
- PLASP - PLASP Child Care Services provides information on all the services they provide to children from 6 weeks to 12 years of age. PLASP is a not-for-profit, community organization, providing affordable, high quality child care in the regions of Peel and Toronto.
- Region of Peel, Children’s Services Division - Children’s Services operates 11 child care centres in Brampton and Mississauga, and provides subsidy access to centre and home based child care in over 350 liscenced programs throughout the Region of Peel.
- Sunshine Dreams for Kids, Peel/Halton - Wherever you live in Canada, people are making Sunshine in a community near you. Volunteers are the very heart of their organization, coast to coast. Sunshine's volunteer 'Chapters' raise funds and present dreams to children in their area. Sunshine volunteers and independent groups all across Canada hold fundraising events to raise money and generate awareness of Sunshine.
- The Peel Literacy Guild - The Peel Literacy Guild Inc. (Charitable BN 10783 0689 RR0001) began providing free, one-on-one literacy tutoring to English-speaking, adult non-readers in 1981. Up until then, although Mississauga had numerous classes for English as a Second Language, there was no tutoring service for basic literacy.
- Trillium Health Centre - Volunteer Resources of Trillium Health Centre is committed to updating volunteer news and information on a regular basis. Visit frequently to keep up-to-date. They invite you to explore volunteer opportunities through their web site, and contact them with any questions or comments you may have.
- United Way of Peel Region - To provide high-quality, client-centred, community health care and related services in response to the changing health care needs of residents of Peel Region.
- Victim Services of Peel - Victim Services relies on the volunteer support of people in the community like you to deliver our services. Volunteering for Victim Services is both a challenging and exciting experience. As a volunteer, you could be called to the scene of a family violence dispute, sexual assault, robbery, suicide, homicide or sudden death.
- Volunteer Caledon - Volunteer Caledon's members are a group of Caledon community service agencies who have come together to promote volunteerism within their own organizations and within the Caledon region. This site provides information on becoming a volunteer as well as current listings of volunteer opportunities within each member agency.
- YMCA of Greater Toronto - The YMCA believes that serving others is essential for personal development. Most YMCA programs are guided by volunteers who are, in turn, sustained by teams of staff and professionals, who ensure that the YMCA's excellent training and service standards are met. Voluntarism is key to delivering charitable services within the community.
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