Mental health services including clinical support for individuals, couples and their families, affected by illness or injury due to service in Canadian Armed Forces and first responder professions; some programs in partnership with other veteran, first responder and mental health community agencies

Animal Assisted Therapy

• Operational Stress Intervention (OSI) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Service Dog Program
• Couples Based Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Equine Therapy

First Responders Assist Program
Prevention and treatment services, including individual and couples trauma-based therapy, immediate crisis support, resiliency training, and cognitive behavioural and processing therapies

• virtual and in-person, contact for information

Group Programs
Operational stress injury group counselling, intervention and support for individuals, couples, families

• Trauma Resiliency Programs include residential trauma support, psycho-education, skills building, resourcing
• COPE (Couples Overcoming PTSD Everyday)

Resiliency Training and Respite Care

• BOS (Before Operational Stress) Program
• Tribute to Your Service Events

Warrior Kids Program
Clinically facilitated, one hour sessions for six weeks supporting development of healthy peer connections and normalizing experiences related to a parental mental health injury

• support for up to fifteen children and youth
• programs by age groups 9-12 years and 13-16 years

Skills Transition and Education

• access to Prince's Operation Entrepreneur Program (POE)
• VTECS Program (Veteran Trainers to Eradicate the use of Child Soldiers)
• post secondary and doctoral scholarships

Contact for information

Call for information
First Responders Assist program: self referral or referral from family doctor, nurse practitioner, psychiatrist, health professional, or through Ontario Shores Central Intake Department at 1-877-767-9642