community services
Help yourself and others take advantage of important services in our area.
The following list is a start. If you know of a service we have missed please contact us and help make this great resource even better.
Newcomer Information Bruce Grey
Welcoming Communities Grey Bruce, in partnership with the United Way of Bruce Grey has created a virtual newcomer information hub, which can be searched, in over 20 different languages.
Y Settlement and Language Services
We are here to support you in effectively settling, integrating, and calling Grey and Bruce counties your home. This program offers a central place to help you feel more connected to your new community through many resources and partnerships with other local service agencies. Our free services are mobile and staff will be able to meet with you in the community where you live, throughout Grey Bruce.
Grey Bruce Local Immigration Partnership
The Grey Bruce Local Immigration Partnership works in collaboration with service-based organizations to ensure that new residents thrive and enhance the vibrant, diverse, and colourful landscapes they now call home.
Information Grey Bruce
A search engine for looking up services and resources available locally.
Southwest Healthline
A website for Ontario patients, doctors, and health care providers to get accurate and up-to-date information about health services in their communities.
✆ 211
This is a free telephone service that provides callers with information about and referrals to social services for every day needs and in times of crisis. It offers access to different types of services such as basic human needs resource, disaster response and recovery, mental health and health resources, employment supports, older adults and persons with disabilities, volunteer opportunities and donations, and children, youth and family support.
Non-English speaking callers can access information through a translator by following these steps:
- Learn to say your language in English with a translation app
- Call 211
- Tell the operator your language in English
- The operator will connect you with a translator
Toolkits & manuals
Welcoming Grey Bruce regularily publishes documents to help further knowledge in our community.
The following toolkits have been developed with various audiences in mind.
published: Jan 2021
Success for Everyone
The Rural Pathways for Newcomer Women in Grey Bruce project developed, implemented and evaluated some pathways to employment tools for visible minority newcomer women and other stakeholders in the region. This toolkit includes the tools, learning, reflections, best practices and processes that we hope will contribute to equity, equality and increased opportunities for visible minority newcomer women in our region.
published: May 2019
Making Rural Communities Home
The Making Grey Bruce Home project developed, implemented and evaluated a rural service delivery model to enhance the capacity of communities and service providers to support the social and economic integration of refugees and vulnerable newcomers. This toolkit is a culmination of the project.
published: May 2019
Service Provider Training Manual
The Making Grey Bruce Home project has delivered 8 workshops and provided training for 183 individuals from 40 organizations and agencies on how to work with newcomers in rural communities where conventional settlement services are not available. This training manual was developed from the content of those workshops, and also reflects the feedback and comments from the attendees.
published: May 2019
Volunteer Mentor Training Manual
The Making Grey Bruce Home project adapted the Good Neighbours Network Toolkit, written by the Good Neighbours Network in 2016, into this training manual that focuses on supporting refugees and vulnerable newcomers. It was tested in two training workshops in Grey Bruce, and revised based on feedback from the workshop participants.
reports
Dive into our latest in-depth findings.
We encourage you to take the time to read them. If you wish to inform yourself about the details of our organization, the following reports are a good place to start.
Weaving Paths Forward
Sep 2018
How can we move forward with Truth and Reconciliation in our region?
Us & Them
Oct 2019
Results and report from a community-building workshop