YRCCS Partners

Partnerships to help you get the services you need

We offer a wide range of service partnerships through our community hub approach which provides more coordinated and complete support for our clients.

• AIDS Committee of York Region
  • ACYR is a safe, confidential, non-judgmental and inclusive space where people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS can get support.
• Blue Door Shelters (Emergency Shelter)
  • Blue Door Shelters, located in York Region, provides safe, supportive shelter and services for people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
• Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness
  • Delivering Hope is a program that helps supply furniture, clothing, toys and house wares to women, children and men who have suffered from abuse.
• Canadian Mental Health Association
  • CMHA branches across Canada provide a wide range of innovative services and supports to people who are experiencing mental illness and their families.
• Community Legal Clinic of York Region
  • We provide legal solutions to low-income residents of York Region.   We may be able to help you with housing issues for tenants, Ontario Works issues, Ontario Disability Support Program issues, Employment Insurance matters, CPP Disability matters, Criminal Injuries Compensations matters and advice on Employment Standards and Consumer Law.
• Domestic Abuse Sexual Assault Care Centre
  • Services are provided by healthcare professionals who are specially trained in forensics and trauma related to abuse and assault. The centre also provides client counseling as well as support to family members and caregivers.
• Domestic Violence Court
  • The Integrated Domestic Violence Court provides a single judge to hear both the criminal and the family law cases (excluding divorce, family property and child protection cases) that relate to one family where the underlying issue is domestic violence. The goals of this court are a more integrated and holistic approach to families experiencing domestic violence, increased consistency between family and criminal court orders and quicker resolutions of the judicial proceedings.
• Family Services of York Region
  • FSYR provides a wide array of counselling services for people of all ages, ethnicity and orientation who are facing and seeking assistance with critical difficulties in their lives.
• The Housing Help Centre
  • Our programs focus on housing, identification, integrated information and referral, voice messaging and long distance service, and energy assistance programs.
• JRCC Furniture Depot
  • The JRCC Furniture depot helps people with limited means settle and create a home by providing them with furniture free of charge under our furniture donation program . Those donating furniture, can take pride in knowing their gently used furniture is going to those who need it.
• John Howard Society
  • Provides for the effective integration into the community of those in conflict with the law and provides, or encourages others to provide, services to those in contact with, or affected by the criminal justice system.
• Krasman Centre
  • We work collaboratively with consumer/survivors and families to improve lives through information, networking, self-help, mutual support, and partnership. All programs and services, including volunteer-delivered programs, are delivered by people who identify as having direct personal experience of mental health extremes and/or homelessness and/or people who identify as psychiatric consumer/survivors as part of our peer support philosophy.
• Legal Aid Ontario
  • Legal Aid Ontario provides legal assistance for low-income people.
• Moving Forward Foundation
  • The Next Step provides individuals, primarily women and their children experiencing domestic violence with a Hand Up not a handout. In partnership with 24 agencies across the Greater Toronto Area, the Next Step lifts women and their children out of domestic violence, into safe homes through our micro-financing program.
• Multi-lingual Cultural Interpretation Services
  • A non-profit social enterprise with the most comprehensive and professional language solutions in the industry.
• Rose of Sharon
  • Rose of Sharon is dedicated to providing counselling, education and parenting resources to prenatal and parenting young mothers and their families throughout York Region supporting their social, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
• Sandgate Women’s Shelter of York Region
  • Sandgate is dedicated to providing all persons who identify as women and their children shelter, support and information so they can take steps towards ending abuse in their lives.
• Social Services Network
  • Deliver culturally and linguistically appropriate direct services to the South Asian community through partnerships developed with other service providers. Specifically, we strive to inform, support and empower the community to live an independent and enriched life.
• South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario
  • SALCO provides advice, brief services, and/or legal representation in a various areas of poverty law.
• Victims Services of York Region
  • Provides 24 hour emotional support and practical assistance to persons victimized by crime or tragic circumstance.
• Victim/Witness Assistance Program
  • Victim/Witness Assistance Program (V/WAP) services are provided on a priority basis to the most vulnerable victims and witnesses of violent crime, such as domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, homicide and hate crime. Families of traffic fatality victims are also eligible. Services begin once police have laid charges and continue until the court case is over.
• Women’s Centre of York Region
  • For women who have identified the need and desire for positive change in their lives, Women’s Centre of York Region offers unique programming and services that address a range of circumstances.
• Yellow Brick House
  • Yellow Brick House is a place for abused women and children. In your neighbourhood and across our community, we are here 24 hours a day, 7 days providing help and hope to women and children.
• York Region Children’s Aid Society
  • To champion the care and protection of children and youth, and the wellbeing of their families.
• York Regional Police
  • York Regional Police is proud to serve the 1.13 million residents of one of Canada’s fastest-growing and most-diverse communities. The hard work and dedication of 1,529 officers and 605 civilians has resulted in our reputation as a national leader in law enforcement and crime prevention programs. Our members are guided by their mission and their values to realize our vision of making a difference in our community.
• YMCA
  • From identifying opportunities to helping you write effective resumes and prepare for interviews, the YMCA of Greater Toronto’s wide range of employment services will help find the job that’s right for you.