All parents have questions. Just ask.
- The Ottawa Collaborative for Parenting Support (OCPS) wants parents to feel supported in being the best parent you can be!
- The OCPS is part of the Ottawa Child and Youth Initiative. We are a community of partners working together to build resilient families that can support their children's healthy development, feel empowered, and are able to cope with the ups and downs of everyday living.
- We recognize that all parents have questions about different areas of parenting, and we want to encourage parents to Just ask! See below for links to organizations to get you started finding answers.
- Below is information about our four Just ask partners and how to contact them, at the bottom is information about how to obtain your own poster
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Please contact one of the following agencies for all your parenting questions:
Phone: 613-260-2360 or 1-877-377-7775
Website: 1Call1Click.ca
Instagram: 1call1click.ca
Email: info@1call1click.ca
Transformational regional coordinated access and navigation service. This bilingual service is designed to match kids, youth and families living in Eastern Ontario with the right mental health, substance use health, addiction and neurodevelopmental health services, at the right time. An initiative of the Kids Come First Health Team brings together 33 local providers of child and youth mental health, substance use health and addiction services.
Parenting in Ottawa is where parents go to get in the know. Speak with a Public Health Nurse in person at one of our Parenting in Ottawa drop-ins or visit our webpage for helpful tips and resources. Ottawa Public Health and its community partners offer these free services to make it easier for children to grow up healthy.
Web: parentinginottawa.ca
Email: parentinginottawa@ottawa.ca
Social Media: Facebook.com/ParentingInOttawa
Instagram: @ParentsOttawa
Phone: 2-1-1 or 613-761-9076
Chat online: 211ontario.ca/chat/
Website: 211EasternOntario.ca
Email: GetHelp@211ontario.ca
211: This free, confidential and multilingual Information and Referral service allows callers to access a full range of non-emergency community, social, government, and health services. Community Navigators provide this service seven days a week.
Parenting comes with big questions - and you don't have to face them alone. Our Parent Support Line is a free, confidential service offering guidance, short-term counselling, referrals, and community connections. We support parents, caregivers, and professionals with concerns about child development, behaviour, routines, emotional wellbeing, school, friendships, and more, from birth to 18. Please call our Parent Support Phone Line available Monday-Friday from 9:00am-4:00pm.
Tel: 613-482-8173
Website: www.parentresource.ca
Email: information@parentresource.ca
Just Ask Posters
To request the poster complete this request form. Posters, tearaway pads, and bookmarks are available to most organizations at no charge.
The OCPS wants parents to feel supported in being the best parents they can be! We recognize that all parents have questions about different areas of parenting, and we want to encourage our member organizations to open up the channels of discussion around child health, parenting best practices, workshops, events, etc. We have designed the "Just Ask" poster to create common messaging in this endeavour across the city.
