Yoga & Pilates

Free classes (yoga, mindful yoga & Pilates) offered weekly to University of Ottawa Students.

Eligibility for Services: University of Ottawa students

Location: Sports Complex – 801 King Edward Avenue

Visit Website: http://www.geegees.ca/node/969?sid=40

Health and Fitness

Sports Complex – Health and Lifestyle Centre

Location: 801 King Edward Avenue

Phone: 416-978-3436

Visit Website: http://www.geegees.ca/node/1001

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

150 Isabella St., Suite 205
Ottawa, ON, K1S 1V7
613-569-6024

www.camh.ca

• CAMH is Canada’s largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, as well as one of the world’s leading research centres in the area of addiction and mental health.
• Some service offerings that require referrals:
  •  Access & Transitions Program: Consolidates entry points into CAMH, aligning the Emergency Department along with crisis clinic entry points to reduce delays in accessing services.
  • Complex Mental Illness Program: Services specializing in clients with serious and persistent mental illness, including Schizophrenia and Forensics, are under common leadership with those units for clients needing highly acute care and rehabilitation.
  • Ambulatory and Structured Treatments Program: Provides care for clients whose treatments are largely delivered on an outpatient or a scheduled basis such as in Addictions, Mood and Anxiety, and Women’s services, including structured treatments such as our 28-day programs or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
  • Underserved Populations Program: Serves smaller, strategic populations and develops partnerships and initiatives for children and youth, seniors and people with dual diagnosis (i.e. both a developmental delay and mental health problem).
• Some Service Offerings that Do NOT require physician referral:
  • Addictions Services Assessment – http://www.camh.ca/en/hospital/care_program_and_services/addiction_programs/Pages/addiction_programs.aspx
  • Metro Addiction Assessment Referral Service (MAARS)
  • Problem Gambling Treatment Services
  • Borderline Personality Disorders (BPD) Clinic

Sandy Hill Community Health Centre – Addiction and Mental Health Services

Provides confidential and supportive counselling services for individuals, couples, families and children/ adolescents seeking help for addictions (including problem gambling), mental health issues, or concurrent disorders. These services are open to anyone living in the City of Ottawa.

Eligibility for Services: Open to public

Location: 221 Nelson Street

Phone: 613-789-1500

Email: registrar@tirp.ca

Visit Website: http://www.sandyhillchc.on.ca/mainEngl/apgso_engl.html

Law Student Member Assistance Program funded by and independent of the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC)

www.myassistplan.com

• A variety of free and confidential 24/7 support services are available, including confidential short term counselling for Ontario law students and their immediate family members and  ”referrals for specialized addictions, sexual assault and psychiatric diagnoses ”
• Other service offerings include e-counselling, health and wellness companion, access to the health library, child and eldercare resources, and interactive learning courses

Register at 1-855-403-8922 or online to receive services.

The Member Assistance Program is strictly independent of the Law Society of Upper Canada and does not share any identifying or confidential information with the Law Society of Upper Canada.

ConnexOntario Helplines

http://www.connexontario.ca/

Offers free, confidential province-wide health services information and referrals via 24-hour helplines for people experiencing problems with mental illness, alcohol and drugs, or gambling. Funded by the Government of Ontario.

Location: N/A

Phone:

ConnexOntario Mental Health Helpline, 1-866-531-2600

ConnexOntario Drug and Alcohol Helpline, 1-800-565-8603

ConnexOntario Problem Gambling Helpline, 1-888-230-3505

Email:  See website for contact forms.

Hours:  N/A

eMentalHealth.ca

http://www.ementalhealth.ca/

A non-profit initiative of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) dedicated to improving the mental health of children, youth and families; offers a wide selection of fact sheets and assessments for adults and children.

Comprehensive list of online screening tools that may help identify whether further assistance might be required. Note that this does not replace seeking help from a health professional. Screening tools for adults include: alcohol, gambling or substance use problems, anxiety disorders,  social anxiety, ADHD in adults, Autism Spectrum Disorder in adults, bipolar disorder, mood disorders, seasonal affective disorder and depression, schizophrenia and psychosis, sleep problems and disorders, eating disorders, domestic violence, and general mental health, among others.

Location:

Online Resource [see specific referrals for location, contact and hours]

Phone: 1-888-486-8236 [toll-free]

Email:  Visit website for contact form.

Hours:  N/A

Mood Disorders Association of Ontario

http://www.mooddisorders.ca

Offers free support and recovery programs to people across Ontario living with depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder. Provides drop-in peer support groups, recovery programs, family and youth clinical support, early intervention for mood disorders and psychosis and online tools focused on wellness and recovery.

Online assessment, “Check Up From The Neck Up”, can identify some symptoms of depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder. Note that this does not replace seeking appropriate medical advice.

Location:

Online Resource [see specific referrals for location, contact and hours]

Phone: 1-888-486-8236 [toll-free]

Email:  Visit website for contact form.

Hours:  N/A

Sexual Health, Sexual Orientation and Relationships Infoline

http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=d7f87dbbfd510410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD

• Province-wide free anonymous service staffed by professional, multidisciplinary, and multicultural counsellors who offer assistance in different languages
• Counselling for:
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Pre-test and post-test options
  • Information and referral to point of care HIV Rapid Test sites province-wide
  • Safer sex activities
  • Risk assessment
  • STIs
  • Birth control options
  • Emergency contraception
  • Sexuality
  • Relationship concerns
  • Pregnancy and options
  • Sexual orientation
  • Issues related to harm reduction, including injection drug use and needle exchange programs
• To speak to one of the counsellors, please call:
  Toll free: 1-800-668-2437
  Local: 416-392-2437
  The Mainline 1-800-686-7544
  The mainline deals with issues related to harm reduction, injection drug use, and needle exchange programs.
  Fax: 416-392-0716
• Hours of operation
  Monday to Friday: 10 a.m. – 10:30 p.m.
  Weekends: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Closed on statutory holidays.

Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres – Online Resource

http://www.sexualassaultsupport.ca/

Online resource offering some online resources for survivors. Also provides community-based referrals to rape crisis centres in Ontario. All centres provide free and confidential counselling, information and support services to survivors of sexual violence. Services may include face-to-face counselling, a 24-hour crisis line, group counselling, assistance navigating legal proceedings, information on other community resources, and information and support for partners, families and friends of survivors.

Location:

Online Resource [see specific referrals for location, contact and hours]

Phone: N/A

Email:  Visit website for contact form.

Hours:  N/A

Common Law Academic Policies

Deferrals and Extensions

All requests for deferrals (exams) or extensions (assignments and papers) or excused absences must be made through the Common Law Student Centre, located in FTX237. For informtation on how to present an accommodation request, please visit our website.

Access Service

Students who require accommodation related to a documented disability (chronic physical or mental health condition, learning disability, sensory impairment, etc.) are invited to register with Access Service.

As part of the registration process with Access Service, a student will meet with a learning specialist who will assist them to devise an accommodation plan. This may include exam, other in-class or assignment-related adaptive measures. The Access Service recommendation of adaptive measures will be sent to the Equity & Wellness Counsellor and the students’ professors, who will participate in the implementation of adaptive measures.
You are invited to contact the Euqity & Wellness Counsellor if you have any questions about the accommodation process:

Phone: (613) 562-5800, ext. 3302

Email: jsimon@uottawa.ca

Visit Access Service Website: http://www.sass.uottawa.ca/access/students/
Location:
Desmarais Building
55 Laurier Ave. East
(3rd Floor – Room 3172)
Ottawa, ON, Canada
K1N 6N5

Phone: 613-562-5976

Email: adapt@uOttawa.ca