General Support Services
Info Northumberland
Information and referral service. Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
203-1005 Elgin Street West, Cobourg (Located in the United Way Office in the Fleming Building)
Contact: 1-800-396-6626
Website: www.fourinfo.com

Northumberland County Community & Social Services
Committed to assisting all members of the community, not only with issues related to social assistance, but also by helping them remove any barriers to healthy living in the community. Programs include:
* Income Services
* Employment Services
* Children's Services
* Homelessness Services
* Housing Services
Arrangements can be made for appointments to be in Brighton, please contact:
Telephone: 1-800-354-7051
Email: css@county.northumberland.on.ca
Website: www.northumberland.ca

Alcoholics Anonymous
If you want to drink, that's your business. If you want to stop, that's ours.
Group meetings at St. Paul's Anglican Church on Sanford Street at 8:00pm on Tuesdays and at the Clothes Depot upstairs at 58 Prince Edward Street at 8:00pm on Fridays.
Contact: 866-951-3711

Al-Anon
Does someone else's drinking bother you? Come find help and understanding.
United Church, King Street, Trenton, 8:00pm Wednesdays
Contact: 866-951-3711

Alzheimer Society
Located in the Bay View Mall in Belleville and has a Wandering Person Registry. Support groups meet in Brighton. The Brighton "Circle of Friends" meets on the 2nd and 4th Monday each month from 2-4 pm at the Brighton Legion on Park Street. Under the guidance of a facilitator from the Alzheimer Society of Belleville-Hastings-Quinte, those living with the disease and their care partners share their challenges and opportunities. For more information call the office at 613-962-0892
Web site: www.alzheimersocietyofbhq.com

Big Brothers and Big Sisters Northumberland
Volunteer mentors work with one on one with children.
Contact: 905-885-6422 or 905-885-8435
Toll Free Number: 1-888-278-2484
Web site: www.bigbrothersbigsisters.ca/northumberland

Brighton Community Access Program
Provides affordable public access to the Internet to Canadians in rural and urban centres. Offers affordable Internet courses and web development. The Centre provides a scanner and software for image manipulation. Offers web page development.
Contact: 613-475-5944

Children's Aid Society of Northumberland
Anyone concerned about the welfare of children ages 0-16, their own or anyone else's.
Telephone: 1-800-263-7902

Community Advocacy Services
Community Advocacy Services (Adult Protective Service Program) is funded by the Ministry of Community and Social Services and sponsored in Northumberland County by Access Community Services, Port Hope. The program is designed to assist adults with an intellectual disability to live their lives to their fullest potential and as independently as possible within their community. Referrals come from many sources including self, family, friends, and community services. Client services include primarily advocacy and case management. Additional services may include assistance with money management, securing and maintaining accommodation, medical and dental co-ordination, instrumental counselling (daily living skills) and short term emotional counselling. Ages: 18 year(s) and up. Must have been diagnosed with an intellectual disability living in Northumberland County. Monday - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Contact: 1-866-475-5620

Brighton Fair Share Food Bank
Hours to serve clients:
-1st, 2nd, and 4th Monday from 9am to 12noon
-3rd Monday 6pm-8pm
Donations:
-every Wednesday from 10am to 12noon
39A Elizabeth, next to Hair Sensations (across from Brighton Public School)
Emergency Contact: Community Care 613-475-4190

Canadian Institute for the Blind (CNIB)
Working to educate people about blindness and its prevention as well as working to meet the needs of registered blind, seriously visual handicapped or deaf blind people all over the world. Crocuses are sold in February and all funds stay in Northumberland County. Support group for visually impaired adults meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month at the Community Care Office.
Contact: 613-475-4904

Cancer Society
Striving to educate patients and their families and friends of medical technologies and care for cancer. Transportation services available for patients to cancer units in Belleville, Cobourg, Kingston and Toronto. Peer support program connects people in need of emotional support.
Contact: Cancer Connection 1-888-939-3333
Patient Services: 613-475-1505
Belleville office: 613-962-0686

Community Living Campbellford / Brighton
Supporting and encouraging the development of more and better services for children and adults with an intellectual disability. Connecting people to the community.
Brighton Office
13 Chapel Street
Contact: 613-475-5557

Families with Twins and Multiples (FTM)
Phone support available 24 hours a day to families with twins or multiples. Comradeship every 3 months - families gather to share experiences, information, and ideas. Clothing and furniture are passed on. Meetings are approximately every third month, location varies-call for further info
Contact: 613-475-4014

Fem-Aide: Women Victims of Violence Support Line
Francophone women across the province who are victims of violence can dial one number and receive support and obtain information on the services available in their community. This is the only francophone service of this kind!
We understand that asking for help when living conjugal violence and/or sexual violence is often hard and painful.
This support line offers services such as information, emotional support, outsourcing and crisis intervention as well as defends the rights of the francophone women victims of violence. Are service adopts a feminist approach when counselling the women in helping them define their needs.
Please visit our website: www.briserlesilence.ca
Support line 1-877-Fem-Aide

Quinte Down Syndrome Support Network
Promoting the knowledge that children with this disability have an independent future ahead of them. The group consists of concerned parents and other community members who provide peer support. The group meets once a month.
Contact: 613-962-6876

READ Centre (Reach, Educate, and Develop)
Provides free adult literacy services.
Contact: 905-373-7033

Career Edge
A community based non-profit agency that provides employment services to individuals of all ages. Programs include: Job Connect, Job Junction, Summer Jobs Service, the Community Employment Counselling Program as well as Housing and Counselling services specifically for youth. Services such as advertising, screening and recruitment are also available for employers. Arrangements can be made to meet in Brighton.
For more information please contact:
81 Dundas West
Downtown Trenton
Telephone: 613-392-9157
Website: www.careeredge.on.ca

Watton Employment Services
This agency functions in cooperation with other Community service providers and is committed to helping individuals get back to work and / or establish employment related goals. Arrangements can be made to meet in Brighton.
18 Spencer Street East
Cobourg
Telephone: 1-888-348-8854
Website: www.watton.ca