Community Supports

On this page:

• Mental health
• Food security and food banks for Timiskaming communities
• Closing the Digital Divide in Timiskaming
• Indigenous Peoples and COVID-19
• Government Financial Resources

Mental health

Alcohol and Other Drugs

Food security and food banks for Timiskaming communities

Closing the Digital Divide in Timiskaming 

Indigenous Peoples and COVID-19 

Timiskaming Health Unit service area is located on the territories of many Indigenous peoples, and provides services to First Nations, Métis and Inuit, Anishnaabe, Cree living in urban and rural communities.

Support for Indigenous Peoples during COVID-19 | Sutien aux peuples autochtones pendant la pandémie de COVID-19

We acknowledge that Indigenous people may benefit from accessing information related to COVID-19 from Indigenous organizations that are supporting community members living in urban and rural areas in response the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 information from Indigenous organizations:

• Temagami First Nation
• Matachewan First Nation
• Mino M'Shki-Ki Indigenous Health Center
• Anishinabek
• Chiefs of Ontario
• Ontario Native Women’s Association
• Métis Nation of Ontario
• Assembly of First Nations  
• National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health

Government Financial Resources

• MOST POPULAR Ontario COVID-19 Worker Income Protection Benefit (Government of Ontario)
  
• Toronto Public Health offers a brief summary of available income support 
• COVID-19 benefits and services (Government of Canada)
• Consult the COVID-19 benefits available to you (Government of Canada) 
• COVID-19: Support for people (Government of Ontario) 
• COVID-19: Help for businesses (Government of Ontario)
   

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