Services Map is an interactive guide to key legal and social services in Ontario. Browse the Services Map to combine your region with the legal topic you are interested in and the type of service you are looking for.
Listed below are a small number of community organizatons that provide assistance to low-income people in Ontario with legal problems. If you have a service or community agency to suggest, please contact us.
We will be adding more information to the various sections of our Services Map in the coming weeks.
See also:
- Service by type - Legal Clinics - General Service
- Service by type - Legal Clinics – Specialty
- Service by type - Student Legal Aid Services Society (SLASS)
- Services by type - Legal Aid Ontario Services
- Services by type - Court and Tribunal Related Services
- Services by type - Other Government Services
- Services by type - Other Law-related Services
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211 Ontario is an information and referral hotline that gives help in many languages. Dial 211 for free from any phone in Ontario. They take calls 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
For general information on finding legal help visit: I need legal help, but have limited income and can't afford a lawyer. What can I do?
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Featured services for this type
Community Living Ontario
Community Living Ontario is a non-profit, provincial association that advocates for people who have an intellectual disability to be fully included in all aspects of community life.Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Fort Erie Multicultural Centre
Fort Erie Multicultural Centre provides social services, health care, education opportunities, and support programs for the purpose of assisting in the early and effective settlement of newcomers in...Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres (OFIFC)
The Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres (OFIFC) is a provincial Aboriginal organization representing the collective interests of twenty-nine member Friendship Centres located in towns and...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
All services for this type
Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services
Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services improves health outcomes for the most vulnerable immigrants, refugees, and their communities in Toronto. They do this by facilitating...Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT)
The AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT) is a community-based, charitable organization that provides support, HIV prevention and education services for people living with and at risk for HIV/AIDS.Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Assaulted Women's Helpline
Women who need legal help because of domestic violence can call the Assaulted Women's Helpline. The Helpline does crisis counselling, gives emotional support, and makes referrals to shelters and...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Beendigen
Beendigen is an independent Native family healing agency whose vision is to provide safety and shelter to Aboriginal women and children experiencing women abuse and to facilitate the cycle of healing...Regions served:
Northern Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ)
The Canadian Centre for International Justice/Centre canadien pour la justice internationale is a charitable organization that works with survivors of genocide, torture and other atrocities to seek...Regions served:
Eastern Ontario, Canada
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR)
The Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR) is a non-profit umbrella organization committed to the rights and protection of refugees in Canada and around the world and to the settlement of refugees and...Regions served:
Canada
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Canadian Mental Health Association Toronto
The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Toronto Branch is one of a network of branches that offer mental health services in communities across Canada.Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System
The Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System is a non-profit organization committed to helping children and families involved with the legal system. London Custody and Access Project...Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Community Law School (Sarnia-Lambton) Inc.
Community Law School (Sarnia-Lambton) Inc. (CLS) is a non-profit public legal education project. CLS provides workshops on a variety of social welfare law topics to non-profit community organizations...Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Community Living Ontario
Community Living Ontario is a non-profit, provincial association that advocates for people who have an intellectual disability to be fully included in all aspects of community life.Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Consolidated Credit Counseling Services of Canada
Consolidated Credit Counseling Services of Canada, Inc. is a not-for-profit, community-based organization that teaches consumers how to budget, get out of debt, and use credit wisely.Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario, Canada
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Family Service Toronto (FST)
Family Service Toronto (FST) is a non-profit social service agency offering a wide range of multilingual counselling and support programs that reflect the needs of Toronto's diverse communities. FST'...Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Family Transition Place
Family Transition Place provides safe shelter for abused women and their children, support and counselling so that abused individuals may build lives free from violence and abuse, and information and...Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations
The Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations (FMTA) is a non-profit organization which advocates for better rights for tenants. Founded in 1974, it is the oldest and largest tenant federation in...Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services, Other Law-related Services
Fem'aide
Fem'aide offers French-speaking women in Ontario who have experienced gender-based violence, support, information and referral to appropriate front-line services within their communities, 24 hours a...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Fort Erie Multicultural Centre
Fort Erie Multicultural Centre provides social services, health care, education opportunities, and support programs for the purpose of assisting in the early and effective settlement of newcomers in...Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Housing Help Association of Ontario
The Housing Help Association of Ontario (HHAO) is a provincial association of community based, not-for-profit organizations delivering free housing help services that prevent and reduce homelessness.Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Kids Help Phone
To reach a Kids Help Phone professional counsellor, kids, teens, and young adults, from any community in Canada, can call 1-800-668-6868 or go online 24 hours a day, 365 day a year. Professional...Regions served:
Canada
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Labour Community Services of Peel Inc
Labour Community Services of Peel Inc is a non-profit community service that assists workers with their employment rights, human rights and income security programs.Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Ontario Association of Credit Counselling Services (OACCS)
The OACCS provides referrals to OACCS certified credit counsellors across Ontario. Credit counsellors can do financial assessments, provide information and support, and intervene with creditors.Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Ontario Association of the Deaf (OAD)
Ontario Association of the Deaf (OAD) is Canada's oldest Deaf non-profit consumer organization. Some of OAD's initiatives include: Consultation and Training Consumer Advocacy (Children and Adults...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres (OFIFC)
The Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres (OFIFC) is a provincial Aboriginal organization representing the collective interests of twenty-nine member Friendship Centres located in towns and...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Ontario Native Women's Association
The Ontario Native Women's Association (ONWA) is a not-for-profit organization that works to empower and support Aboriginal women and their families in the province of Ontario.Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Osgoode Mediation Centre (OMC)
The Osgoode Mediation Centre (OMC) is comprised of law students from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. They provide a range of services including conflict resolution education and training;...Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services, Student Legal Aid Services Society
Rent Banks
In some areas of Ontario, there are programs, usually called rent banks, that might be able to help if you are having a temporary problem paying your rent. To find the rent bank in your area, you can...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Sexual Assault Centre Kingston
Sexual Assault Centre Kingston (SAC Kingston) provides free of charge, confidential, non-judgmental support to survivors of sexualized violence, offers public education on issues of sexualized...Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region (SASC)
The Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region (SASC) supports, in a non-judgemental way, those who have been sexually assaulted as children or as adults by providing free of charge: a 24-hour...Regions served:
Southwestern Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Social Services Network (SSN)
Social Services Network (SSN) is a not-for-profit charitable organization delivering culturally and linguistically appropriate programs and services to the diverse South Asian community in the York...Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Springtide Resources
Springtide Resources, formerly known as Education Wife Assault (EWA), promotes healthy and equal relationships by engaging diverse communities in shared educational strategies designed to prevent...Regions served:
Serves all of Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
St. Christopher House Immigrant and Refugee Services
The Immigrant and Refugee Services programs at St. Christopher House provide information and support to help newcomers, individually and as community members, to develop the skills and knowledge to...Regions served:
Greater Toronto Area
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
Regions served:
Eastern Ontario
Service type:
Community and/or Social Services
