COVID-19 - Resources For Your Basic Needs and Mental Health

List of safe options to obtain food or other essentials. Click here or visit this site.

For area Home Support Agencies and their ability to help seniors and persons with disabilities affected by current physical distancing measures, click here. 

If you're looking for novel ideas on how to feel connected these days, check out this list.

Free legal aid is being offered now to persons affected by the pandemic. Check out this site. 

Decision-making aid regarding seniors in care by Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. 

Seniors who would like to become more proficient with technology can obtain free instruction from Connected Canadians. 

For isolated seniors: A Friendly Voice

Volunteer dog walkers for frontline staff and persons with health issues - Zoomies

ConnexOntario is a phone and web service to help Ontarians connect with mental health and addiction services. 

Counseling Connect - same day or next day teletherapy

Wellness Together - free support in various forms funded by the Federal Government

AbilityCBT - free Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Ontarians

BounceBack - free Cognitive Behavioral Therapy coaching or videos for Ontarians

Breaking Free Online: Online Substance Abuse Help

Find multiple resources here for UofO and students from other postsecondary institutions as well as this programme here for UofO students.

For Employees Receiving Extended Health Benefits from Sunlife: Free virtual and home support services

For Front-Line Healthcare Workers: Free psychological help
COVID Frontline Wellness - offered by The Royal

Peer to Peer Mental Health Support 
Together All (for Ontario residents)

For Women Victims of Abuse

Unsafe at Home Ottawa is offering help by text and chat.
Text: 613-704-5535
Chat: https://unsafeathomeottawa.ca 
Unsafe at Home Prescott-Russell: https://pasbienpr.ca

Support group for women offered by the Canadian Center for Women's Empowerment.

Please see the signal for help that women victims of violence can use in video calls to ask for help

 

Wabano Center
613-748-0657

Hope for Wellness Helpline - Helpline and online chat service
1-855-242-3310 - 24 hours/day, 7 days per week
To chat online, click on link above

For indigenous women: 
Talk 4 Healing
24 hours/day
Service offered in 14 languages
1-855-554-4325
Online chat by clicking on link above

An illustrated book to help children understand COVID-19
The Story of The Oyster and The Butterfly: The Corona Virus and Me - Ana M. Gomez

COVID with Kids - A Toolkit for Coping with Kids at Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic

CHEO and PLEO - Pandemic Parenting Playbook

COVID Coach - US Department of Veterans Affairs

Managing Your Stress and Anxiety During COVID-19 - CAMH (Center for Addiction and Mental Health) 

FACE COVID (5 minute animation)

Daily videos on COVID-related anxiety by Dr. Jud Brewer here

The Five Challenges of Staying at Home 

Grief and COVID

FACE COVID (infographic)

FACE COVID (ebook)

Managing Fears and Anxiety Around the Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Harvard University Health Services

"Psychology Works" Fact Sheet: Coping with and Preventing COVID-19 - Canadian Psychological Association

Tips to Manage Mental Health During COVID-19 - CMHA Ontario

Guide to Living with Worry and Anxiety Amidst a Global Pandemic - Psychology Tools

Tolerance for Uncertainty: A COVID-19 Workbook - A DBT-based workbook to help build the skills to get through this crisis.

The Inquiring Mind - COVID-19 - Self-Care and Resilience Guide

Coronavirus Anxiety Workbook - published by The Wellness Society

Mental Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic - CAMH

10 Things You Can Do Right Now to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Worry - Bounceback

Simple Mindfulness Practices to Help You through Difficult Times 

Doing What Matters in Times of Stress - World Health Organization

Your Surge Capacity is Depleted - It's Why You Feel Awful

Living Health Champlain - Living Healthy Webinars

CHEO and PLEO - Pandemic Parenting Playbook

Stress Management - offered by Shoppers Drug Mart and SilverCloudHealth

 

Bounce Back Ontario
Bounce Back is a free service provided to Ontario residents. Interested persons have the option to work through modules with a coach or use the self-directed videos. You can access the videos directly here. For the coaching, click here.

Starling Minds

Mindbeacon - free fully digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Ontarians