Someone is hurt, a life is in danger, there is a fire, or a crime is happening. Police, fire and ambulance.
Call or text any hour if you are thinking of ending your life or cannot keep yourself safe. Free. A trained person answers.
Your city's help line. In Toronto it is open any hour and can find you an emergency shelter bed tonight and connect you to city services like Ontario Works (welfare). Peel, Halton and Durham have 311 too. York Region and Hamilton don't, so call 211 there.
Food, housing, welfare, legal help, mental health and more, anywhere in Ontario. Free, any hour, in many languages.
Waterproof, tear-proof harm-reduction guides that survive a Canadian winter, printed, restocked and handed out on the street.
That message line is how your gift lands in Harm Reduction and nowhere else.
Straight talk on receipts: we’re an incorporating not-for-profit, and official charitable tax receipts aren’t available until CRA registration completes. Corporate sponsorships don’t need receipts; they’re a business expense either way.
About Ember House →A standing monthly e-transfer marked HARM REDUCTION keeps the guides restocked all year.
Put your company’s name behind Harm Reduction: session sponsorship, gym-wall signage, program naming. Talk to us.
New or clean used kit, printing, trades and services. Tell us what you have.
Certified coaches, mentors, drivers, grant writers. Everyone working with youth or vulnerable adults completes a vulnerable sector check; we walk you through it. Raise your hand.
Printing and restocking of waterproof harm-reduction pamphlets.
Getting the guides and the help behind them into the hands of the people who need them.