Health+Supports+in+Toronto

[|Youth Services and Supports in Toronto Directory]
Awesome resource that has contact info for housing, health and wellness, employment, legal and financial, LGBTQ and Newcomer supports in Toronto.

**Social Assistance**
If a student or their parents are receiving social assistance then they are eligible for many supports: dental, eyeglasses, hearing aids, prescriptions, etc. See the following link: [] If they are not receiving public assistance, the links below may be of some assistance:

**__A. Eyeglasses__**
Talk to your school social worker, they have a contact for free or low cost eyeglasses.

**__B. Free Dental/ low cost dental__**
Toronto Public Health offers free and low cost dental services to children and youth (0-17) in their clinics and work with many community health centres, community agencies and private dentists throughout the city.

[|Cinot Program] [|Dental Clinics] [|Low cost dental clinics] [|Healthy Smiles Ontario]

**__C. Hearing Aids__**
Youth are eligible for free hearing aids through the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

[|Assistive Devices Program]

**__D. Toronto Community Health Centres__**
A list of all of Toronto’s Community Health Centres, and their contact information.

[|Toronto Community Health Centres]

**__E. Addiction Services__**
Toronto Outpatient Services for Drug and Alcohol Rehab - Government-Funded outpatient programs.

[|Toronto Outpatient Services]

Health resources for LGBTQ youth: [|Link]

**__G. Subsidized Psychological Testing for Post-Secondary Education Supports__**
MAT is a service which allows post-secondary students across Southern Ontario to access assessment services, even if they have limited or no means of paying for such an assessment. The MAT provides skilled, qualified Psychologists and Psychological Associates who will come to the student's home institution and complete a full assessment.

__ [|Mobile Assessment Team] __

[|METRAC] [|NIP Youth Resources] [|SACC Youth Resources]

Thanks Heather Johnson for this great resource!