Links - Self-help Groups
A B C D E F H I J K L M N P S T V W Y
ADHD Support Group
AIDS Info Line
AIDS Yellowknife
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alison McAteer House for Abused Women
Alzheimer Resource Centre
Alzheimer Family Caregiver Support Group
Autism Support Group
Association Franco-culturelle de Yellowknife
Aven Senior's Centre (Aven Court, Aven Manor)
Baker Community Centre
Block Parents
Breastfeeding Support (YK Breastfeeding
Support Group)
Breast Health/Breast Cancer Action
Canadian Diabetes Association, Diabetes
Resource Centre
Canadian Hard of Hearing Association - NWT Chapter
Canadian National Institute for the Blind
Centre for Northern Families/Yellowknife Womens'
Centre
Community Living
Crisis Line for Abused Women (C/O Alison McAteer
House)
Daycare List (Licensed Daycares)
- available from the GNWT, North Slave Region
Diabetes
Dietitians of Canada
Disabled Persons Council
Emergency Department/Poison Control
Family Caregiver Support Group
(Alzheimer's)
Fire Department
Food Bank
Foster Families
Hard of Hearing - Canadian Hard of
Hearing Association (NWT Chapter)
Healthy Baby Club (Centre for Northern Families)
Healthy Family Program (YHSSA)
Healthy Toddlers Club (Centre for Northern Families)
Help/Crisis Lines
Law Line (Operating Tuesday/Thursday, 6:00
- 8:30 p.m.)
Learning Centre
Legal Services Board (Legal Aid)
Library
Licensed Daycare List
Moms and Tots Programs
'Moms, Boobs & Babies' Support Group (Yellowknife
Breastfeeding Support Group)
Multiple Sclerosis Support Group
N
NWT Council for Disabled Persons
NWT Seniors Society
NWT Seniors Website
Poison Control
Pregnant and Teen Moms
St. John Ambulance
Salvation Army (Social Programs, Emergency Programs,
Withdrawal Management Services
Seniors' Information Line
Seniors' Society
Side Door Youth Centre
Stanton Territorial Health Authority - Emergency Department/Poison
Control
Status of Women Council of the NWT
Survivors of Sexual Abuse Support Group
Women's Centre
Women's Voices in Leadership
Yellowknife Association for Community
Living
Yellowknife Association of Concerned Citizens for Seniors (YACCS)
Yellowknife Breastfeeding Support Group
Yellowknife Family Centre
Yellowknife Fire Department
Yellowknife Food Bank
Yellowknife Foster Family Association
Yellowknife North of 60 Block Parent Program
Yellowknife Play Group
Yellowknife Public Library
Yellowknife Seniors' Society
Yellowknife Women's Centre/The Centre for Northern
Families
Youth Centre
YWCA
YWCA - Alison McAteer House for Abused Women
ADHD Support Group
Phone: (867) 873-2566
A.I.D.S. Info Line
Phone: (867) 920-2121or 1-800-661-0844
A.I.D.S. Yellowknife
Phone: (867) 873-2626
Fax: (867) 873-0158
email: aidsyk@ssimicro.com
Alcoholics Anonymous
Box 1641, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2P2
Phone: (867) 444-4230
Alzheimer Resource Centre
Free at the Baker Centre
Phone: (867) 873-9475
Alzheimer Family Care-Giver Support Group
Phone: (867) 766-4171
Autism Support Group
Phone: (867) 920-4206
Association Franco-culturelle de Yellowknife
Phone: (867) 873-3292
Aven Senior's Centre (Aven Court, Aven Manor)
Phone: (867) 920-2443
Fax: (867) 873-9915
Baker Community Centre
5710 Franklin Avenue (50th Avenue)
Activities for Seniors, Lunch with a Bunch every Friday at noon. Volunteers
welcome as well. Contact Martha MacLellan at:
Phone: (867) 873-9475
Breast Health/Breast Cancer Action
Phone: (867) 920-6177
For assistance with temporary bra, prosthesis or wig bank you can call 920-4428
Canadian Diabetes Association, Diabetes Resource
Centre
Phone: (867) 669-3145 or 1 (800) 563-0032
Fax: (867) 920-4271
Canadian Hard of Hearing Association
- NWT Chapter
Phone: (867) 873-4735
Fax: (867) 873-4318
Canadian National Institute for the Blind
Box 872, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2N6
Phone: (867) 873-2647
Fax: (867) 873-2657
email: norma.jarvis@cnib.ca
Crisis Line for Abused Women (c/o Alison
McAteer House)
Phone: (867) 873-8257 or 1-866-223-7775
Daycare List (Licensed) - available
from GNWT, North Slave Region
Phone: (867) 920-8786
Dietitians of Canada
480 University Avenue, Suite 604
TORONTO ON M5G 1V2
Phone: (416) 596-0857
Fax: (416) 596-0603
Website: www.dietitians.ca
Emergency Department/Poison Control
Stanton Territorial Health Authority
Phone (867) 669-4100
Healthy Baby Club (Centre for Northern
Families)
Monday and Wednesday afternoons. Free drop in facility for all
expecting and new families and their babies up to one year of age. Phone
(867) 873-2566
Healthy Family Program (YHSSA)
A voluntary home visitation program for families with newborn babies. Services
are initiated prenatally or shortly after birth. Family home visitors work
from a strength-based approach to promote healthy childhood growth and development,
positive parenting and parent-child bonding. Home visitors also link parents
to other services and programs in the community. Families can refer themselves
or be referred through their health care provider (doctor/nurse). There
is no cost for the program. They are located across the street from the Gibson Medical Clinic.
Phone (867) 873-7413
Fax: (867) 873-0177
Healthy Toddlers Club (Centre for
Northern Families)
Tuesday evenings and Thursday afternoons. Phone (867) 873-2566
Help/Crisis Lines
Includes AIDS help-line, depression and suicide prevention
Phone: (867) 920-2121 or 1-800-661-0844
Other Numbers
After Hours Phone Number, YHSSA, Community Social Programs- (867) 873-1929
Crisis Line for Abused Women (Alison McAteer House, Yellowknife, NT) - (867) 873-8257 or emergency line (867) 873-8142Help Line - Kids - 1-800-668-6868 - Counsellors are available in Canada 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year long. It's free and easy to call from anywhere at anytime.
Seniors Help Line: 1-800-661-0878 or call (867) 920-7444
Western Arctic Help Line and Aids Help Line: (867) 920-2121. Volunteers operate this Help Line from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. each night.
John Howard Society
Phone: (867) 920-4276
Kids Help Line (24 hours)
Phone: 1-800-668-6868
Law Line (operating Tuesday/Thursday
6:00 to 8:30 p.m.)
Phone: (867) 920-2360 or 1-867-873-3160 (no charge)
Legal Services Board (Legal Aid)
Phone: (867) 873-7450
Moms and Tots Programs
Yellowknife Play Group (Calvary Community Church Basement) - A warm and
fun indoor environment for parents, caregivers and children. This drop-in
Play Group takes place Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings and Wednesday
afternoons. Cost $1.00 per child. Phone (867) 873-9815.
Yellowknife Ski Club - Moms and Dads take turns skiing and babysitting. The program is offered from November through April. Contact Karen Johnson at (867) 920-4521
‘Moms, Boobs & Babies’ Support
Group (Yellowknife Breastfeeding Support Group)
Help Line Services As Well
Phone: (867) 444-3374
Multiple Sclerosis Support Group
Phone: (867) 873-2030
NWT Council for Disabled Persons
Box 1387, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2P1
Phone: (867) 873-8230
Phone Toll Free: 1-800-491-8885
Website: www.nwtability.ca
NWT Seniors Society
Phone: (867) 920-7444 or 1-800-661-0878
Website: www.elderweb.org/vis/sc/nwtseniors/
email: seniors@tamarack.nt.ca
NWT Seniors Website
www.hlthss.gov.nt.ca/seniors/index.htm
Pregnant and Teen Moms
Phone: (867) 873-2566
St. John Ambulance
First Aid programs. Phone: (867) 873-5658
Salvation Army (Social Programs, Emergency
Programs, Withdrawal Management Services)
Phone: (867) 920-4673
Senior's Information Line
Phone: (867) 920-7444 or 1-800-661-0878
Side Door Youth Centre
Phone: (867) 766-3272
Fax: (867) 766-3273
Stanton Territorial
Health Authority
Emergency Department/Poison Control
Phone: (867) 669-4100
Status of Women Council of the NWT
Website: www.statusofwomen.nt.ca
Phone: (867) 920-6177 or 1-888-234-4485
Fax: (867) 873-0285
email: council@statusofwomen.nt.ca
Survivors of Sexual Abuse Support Group
Phone: (867) 920-4673
Fax: (867) 920-4096
The Learning Centre
Phone: (867) 873-6945
Victim Services
Phone: (867) 920-2978
Women's Voices in Leadership
c/o Status of Women Council of the NWT
Website: www.statusofwomen.nt.ca/leadership
Phone: (867) 920-6177 or 1-888-234-4485
Fax: (867) 873-0285
email: womeninleadership@statusofwomen.nt.ca
Yellowknife Association for Community
Living
Phone: (867) 920-2644
Fax: (867) 920-2348
email: nwtacl@ssimicro.com
Yellowknife Association of Concerned Citizens for Seniors
(YACCS)
Phone: (867) 920-2443
Fax: (867) 873-9915
Yellowknife Breastfeeding Support
Group (‘Moms, Boobs & Babies’ Support Group)
Help Line Services As Well
Phone: (867) 444-3374
Yellowknife Family Centre
This program is open to all Yellowknife parents and their children from
birth to 6 years of age. There are three programs: drop-in play centre,
toy lending library and parenting workshops. The program is closed during
school holidays.
Location: Side Door, Top Level
Phone: (867) 669-6772
Fax: (867) 669-6773
E-mail: ruth_adamchick@mail.ycs.nt.ca
Yellowknife Fire Department
Phone: (867) 766-5500
Car seat inspection and rental program, carbon monoxide and smoke detector
programs
Emergency Number ONLY: 873-2222
Yellowknife Food Bank
4909-50th Street
Phone: (867) 873-4035
Yellowknife Foster Family Association
Phone: (867) 920-7160
Fax: (867) 873-0158
email: yffa@theedge.ca
Website: www.theedge.ca/yffa
Yellowknife North of 60 Block Parent
Program
Phone: (867) 873-5735
Yellowknife Play Group
(Calvary Community Church Basement)
A warm and fun indoor environment for parents, caregivers and children.
This drop-in Play Group takes place Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings
and Wednesday afternoons. Cost $1.00 per child. Phone (867) 873-9815.
Yellowknife Public Library
Phone: (867) 920-5642
Yellowknife Seniors' Society
#2 5710 50th Avenue (at the Baker Centre)
Phone: (867) 873-9475
Fax: (867) 873-4318
email: yk.ss@nt.sympatico.ca
Website: www.ykseniors.ca
Yellowknife Women's Centre/The Centre
for Northern Families
Healthy Baby Club - Monday and Wednesday afternoons. Free drop
in facility for all expecting and new families and their babies up to one
year of age. Call (867) 873-2566.
Healthy Toddler Club – Tuesday evening and Thursday afternoons. Call
(867) 873-2566.
Crisis intervention. Phone 873-9131 or drop in at 5610 - 50th (Franklin) Avenue.
YWCA - Alison McAteer House for Abused
Women
Phone: (867) 873-8257 or 1-800-223-7775
YWCA
Phone: (867) 920-2777
Fax: (867) 873-9406
