Resources

Helpful Websites and Documents

Click on links below to find websites, videos, ebooks, articles and programs about chronic conditions and information to assist you in staying healthy!

• 211 Ontario - Helpline (Call 2-1-1 or toll free 1-877-330-3213) and online database of Ontario's community and social services
• Choosing Wisely Canada is a campaign to help clinicians and patients engage in conversations about unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures.
• Health Care Connect - Find a Family Doctor or Nurse Practitioner
• Health Sciences North  - academic health centre offering a variety of program and services with regional programs in the areas of cardiac care, oncology, nephrology, trauma and rehabilitation. 
• Home and Community Care - how to get help for patients and seniors who need support living at home
  • Northeast LHIN (formally CCAC) - Health care services offered at home, at school, and in the community, as well as access to supported living programs and long-term care in Northeast Ontario
• Healthline  - find local health and community services across Ontario
  • ​Northeast Healthline - resource for patients, caregivers, health care providers, and anyone wanting to learn more about the many health services available in communities across Northeastern Ontario
• ​Ministry of Health and Long-term Care
  • ​Health care in Ontario - get help navigating Ontario's health care system and connecting with programs or services you're looking for

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Advanced Care Planning

• Speak Up Ontario

Alcohol Use

• ​Connex Ontario  - Drug and Alcohol Helpline: 1-866-531-2600

Arthritis (Including Lupus, Gout, Fibromyalgia, and Rheumatoid Arthritis)

• Arthritis Society
• ​Rheumatoid Arthritis Support Network

​​​​​Autism

• Autism Canada
• ​Autism Ontario
• Child & Community Resources
• ​Hands The Family Help Network
• Ministry of Children, Community and Services: Ontario Autism Program

Cancer

• Canadian Cancer Society
• Cancer Care Ontario
• Regional Cancer Program:  Northeast Cancer Centre 
• Cancer Screening in Ontario
• Time to Screen Tool
• Ontario Breast Screening Program
• Colon Cancer Check Program
• My Cancer IQ  
• Ontario Cervical Cancer screening

Caregivers

• Caregiver Exchange
• Caregiving Matters - Online resource of education and support for family caregivers who are dealing with the declining health and death of a parent or family member
• Carers Canada
• The Change Foundation: Family Caregivers
• Development Services Ontario - Community Participations Supports and Passport Respite Program - funding for community participation and caregiver respite supports
• Elizz - caregiver support and home services
• Federal Tax Credits and Insurance Benefits
  • Canada Caregiver Credit  - claim when you file income tax
  • Compassionate Care Benefit (CCB) program - employment Insurance benefits and job protection are provided to eligible family members for up to twenty-eight weeks while caring for someone.
  • Disability Tax Credit - Caregivers of dependents or spouses/common law partners may be eligible to have the disability tax credit amount transferred to their own tax return.
• Home Instead Senior Care - offers in-home care services to help seniors with daily activities of living.  
• Ontario Caregiver Organization
• Ontario Caregiver Coalition
• Respite Services.com - links workers to families that are in need of respite and/or developmental programming for their child wiht a physical or developmental disability or an adult with a development disability 

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Fibromyalgia

• National ME/RM Action Network

Chronic Pain

• Centre for Effective Practice
  • CEP site for providers - comprehensive database of trusted clinical tools and resources
  • LHIN Specific Resources for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain
    • Northeast Ontario region
• Chronic Pain Association of Canada
• Doctor Mike Evans video: Low Back Peain
• Health Sciences North: Integrated Chronic Pain Program (regional program services all Northeastern Ontario residents)
• Ontario Chronic Pain Programs - OHIP funded
• YouTube video: Tire Analogy - A Car with Four Flat Tires

Concussion

• Concussions Ontario  - led by the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation
  • Information for Patients and Families
  • Information for Healthcare Professionals
• ​Ontario Brain Injury Association 
  • ​Brain Injury Association - Sudbury & District
  • Brain Injury Association of North Bay and Area
  • Seizure & Brain Injury Centre - serving Cochrane-Temiskaming area
  • North Simcoe Muskoka Acquired Brain Injury Collaborative
  • Brain Injury Services Muskoka Simcoe
• ​Health Sciences North: Outpatient Brain Injury Rehabilitation Services - OBIRS provided services to clients who live in Northern Ontario 

Crohn's and Colitis

• Crohn's and Colitis Canada
  • Ontario Region

Dementia (Alzheimer's Disease and Other Related Dementias)

• Alzheimer Society of Canada
• Alzheimer Society of Ontario
• North Bay Regional Health Centre: Regional Dementia Care Program (Oak Lodge)

Diabetes

• Diabetes Canada 
• Diabetes Services in Algoma
• Health Sciences North - Diabetes Care Services
• Wounds Canada: Diabetes, Healthy Feet and You

Falls Prevention

• Finding Balance
• Ontario Chiropractic Association: Best Foot Forward
• Stand Up! Fall Prevention Program

Healthy Eating

• Dieticians of Canada
• Canada's Food Guide
• Eat Well Plate
• Healthy Choices 
• Unlock Food​ (formally EatRightOntario.ca) - information on nutrition, food and healthy eating as well as recipes, videos and interactive healthy eating tools.

Heart Disease (Stroke, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure)

• Heart and Stroke Foundation
• Health Sciences North: Heart Failure Disease Management Program
• Northeastern Ontario Stroke Network

Kidney Disease

• The Kidney Foundation of Canada
  • The Kidney Foundation of Canada - Ontario
• Ontario Renal Network
  • North East Regional Renal Programs Hub Hospitals

Li      ver Disease (Cirrhosis, Gallstones, Liver Cancer, Reye's Syndrome, Toxic Hepatitis)

• Canadian Liver Foundation
• Liver Care Canada

Lung Disease (Asthma, COPD)

• Canadian Lung Association
• Ontario Lung Association
• Health Sciences North: Cardiac, Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Asthma Clinic  

Medication Safety

• Knowledge is the Best Medicine
  • Create Your Own Medication Record
• ​Doctor Mike Evans video: One Simple Solution for Medication Safety

Mental Illness (Anxiety, Depression, Mood, Schizophrenia, Stress)

• Anxiety Canada - online resource providing self-help information, community programs and workshops
  • My Anxiety Plan
  • MindShift - app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety
• Big White Wall Canada - online mental health and wellbeing service for 16+ that helps people to better manage stress and anxiety 
• BounceBack Ontario - free cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) skill-building program for adults and youth 15+ across Ontario.   Community coaches provide telephone delivery of a brief, workbook-based, self-help program to improve mental health
• Canadian Mental Health Association
  • Canadian Mental Health Association: Sudbury/Manitoulin  
• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
• Health Sciences North:  Mental Health & Addictions Program

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) 

• Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
  • Sudbury-Manitoulin Chapter

​​Obesity 

• Canadian Obesity Network
  • ​Sudbury Chapter
• ​Ontario Bariatric Network
• Health Sciences North: Bariatric Regional Assessment & Treatment Centre

​Parkinson's Disease 

• Parkinson Canada
• Parkinson's Support Group of Sudbury 

Physical Activity

• Canadian 24-Hour Movements Guidelines
  • Older Adults 65 years and older
• From Soup to Tomatoes -  3 free chair-based exercise programs via OTN or internet: basic (beginners), gentle (for seniors and those with mobility issues) and yoga (suitable for everyone) 
• Check your community's recreation & leisure guide or visit your community centre/YMCA for physical opportunities in your area

Smoking Cessation 

• Smokers' Helpline - 1-877-513-5333
• Smoke Free Ontario