General Resources

he Ottawa Hospital Academic Family Health Team offers many external community resources to patients.

Here are some general resources that you might find helpful:

• College of Family Physicians of Canada – Provides helpful information about healthy living. Any health or medical information is provided for reference, and is not intended to replace advice or care from a health-care professional.
• Community Health and Resource Centers – The Coalition of Community Health and Resource Centres of Ottawa helps you understand local health and social issues, and also tells you what resources are available in your neighbourhood.
• Ottawa Public Health – Ottawa Public Health provides services such as health protection and promotion, disease and injury prevention, control of communicable diseases, and family health services.
• Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
• Ontario 211

Legal Support

• Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) CLEO is a community legal clinic, founded in 1974, that specializes in public legal education.
  www.cleo.on.ca
• Family Law Education for Women (FLEW) – FLEW is a public legal education project funded by the government of Ontario to assist women in understanding their family law rights.

Last updated on: February 25th, 2021