CRISIS INTERVENTION - SHORT TERM COUNSELLING

Do you need support or need to talk to someone about stress, violence, employment, bereavement, etc.? Also offered: short-term counselling for individuals, couples and families, advocacy and community education. Our intake workers will meet with you and offer support and the appropriate resources available in the community.

Please contact Tracy or Isabelle at 613-830-4357 or drop in at the Centre anytime Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 12:00pm and 1pm to 4:00pm (summer hours).

FAMILY COUNSELLING

Catholic Family Service Ottawa is a non-profit charitable organization, offering a range of social services in English and French to individuals, couples and families in the Ottawa area.  Please book an appointment to meet with the counselor at the Orléans-Cumberland Community Resource Centre.  The sessions are designed to strengthen and empower the Centre’s clientele.  The costs of the services are available on a sliding scale.

The counsellor is available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during day and evening to meet with clients. Contact Tracy or Isabelle of our intake program to set up an appointment – call Monday to Friday at 613-830-4357.

ARE YOU ON Ontatio Works or ODSP?  DO YOU HAVE "PRE-DIABETES"?

You may now be eligible for the Special Diet Allowance. 
For more details

LEGAL AID FOR TENANTS

Residential Tenancies Act, 2006
http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_06r17_e.htm

CHILD CARE BENEFIT

Improving the Taxation of the Universal Child Care Benefit for Single Parents
The Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) is included in the income of the lower-income spouse or common-law partner in two-parent families. For single parents, the UCCB is included in their income and taxed at their marginal tax rate. As a result, a single-parent family can pay more tax on the same UCCB than a single-earner two-parent family with the same income.

Budget 2010 proposes to improve the taxation of the UCCB for single-parent families by allowing single parents to choose to include UCCB payments in their own income, or in the income of the dependant for whom an Eligible Dependant Credit is claimed, thereby providing treatment comparable to single-earner two-parent families. In most cases, the dependant would not be subject to tax. This change will ensure that single parents are not disadvantaged by their family status and will provide up to $168 in tax relief for single parents with one child under six in 2010.

It is estimated that this change will reduce federal revenues by a small amount in 2009–10, $5 million in 2010–11 and $5 million in 2011–12.