211 What is that?

211 …. What is that? …. Yes you just call!!

211 is a helpline and online database of Ontario’s community and social services.
211 is answered and updated by highly-trained specialists.
Call 2-1-1 | Free | Confidential | Live answer | 24/7

211 is a three-digit phone number like 411 and 911. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)  assigns three-digit phone numbers for services that are of broad public interest and of universal social value. The CRTC decision was approved in 2001:

211 began in the United States in 1997. As of December 2010, 82% of the US population had access to 211. Canada’s first 211 service launched in Toronto in 2002, and is under consideration or development in most provinces.

Here in Peterborough, Ontario
In 2009 United Way of Peterborough and District initiated 211 services here and it is running and available 24/7.

The service, which was already operating in eight other Ontario communities including Toronto, connects Peterborough area residents with an operator who can direct them to services in their community.

http://www.211ontario.ca/basic-page/resources

About Admin-Blog-SJT

Paul is a Family Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Reiki Master with a Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology who has been working with clients in Peterborough Ontario and surrounding area since the late 1990s. Over the years he has been involved in family & individual counselling and has received training in diverse and esoteric practices such as Hypnosis, Shamanic Journeying, Remote Viewing, Reiki, Philosophy, Integral Theory, and Spirituality, to name a few.
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