Stress Counselling Services
Available for farmers in Huron and Perth counties
Chrisis Intervention Centre - 1-800-829-7484
- *519-274-8000 - Stratford
*519-524-1113 - Goderich
*24-hour confidential counselling and referral service
* Open 365 days/year
Telecare - 1-800-463-1360
- *519-273-0111 - Stratford
*24-hour confidential sistening and referral service
*Open 365 days/year
*Referrals to counselling services
Family Services Perth - Huron - 1-800-268-0903
- *519-273-1020 - 142 Waterloo St.S., Stratford
* 519-291-5401 - 820 Main St.E., Listowel
*519-482-5833 - 79 Wellington St., Clinton
*Support and counselling for individuals, couples and families
*Includes marriage and credit counselling
Listowel Mental Health - 519-291-1320
- Outpatien Services, Listowel Memorial Hospital
*Offers individual adult counselling by self referral or physician referral
John Brothers, M.S.W., M.B.A., Counsellor - Catholic Church and beyond - 1-888-857-9937
- *Maintains weekly office hours in Clinton and Goderich
Dr. Robert Shephard, Psychologist - 519-527-1770
- *148 Goderich Street West, Seaforth, ON, N0K 1W0
Neil Lackey, B.SC., M.Div., M.Th. - 1-888-734-7179
- *Associate at Southern Ontario Counselling Centre, 221 Erb St.E., St.Agatha, ON, N0B 2L0
*Individual, couple and family therapy
*Pastoral counselling
*Mediation
Middlesex County ...
also has a stress counselling service.
Neil Gregory, can be contacted by leaving a message on voice mail at 519-873-4097, or, in a crisis, by pager 1-888-511-9133.
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Provincial Programs
Farm Family Advisor Program
Provides confidential peer counselling for farm families in financial difficulty. Also available to provide a second opinion on improving their operations, and to help in preparing projections for creditors. Advisors are from outside the local community.
No cost to the farmer for this service
Contact: OMAFRA offices for referral to this program
Professional Services Assistance Program
Provides financial assistance to the farmer to hire professional assistance when faced with crucial decisions in times of severe financial stress. Financial management consultants, accountants, lawyers, and health professionals may be hired to develop production/business plans , negotiate with creditors, assess legal and tax implications of proposed restructuring or creditor settlements, or to provide stress counselling to farm operators and their immediate families.
Applicants must demostrate financial difficulty in order to qualify.
Contact: OMAFRA offices for referral to this program
Farm Consultation Service
Through this ferderally administered program farmers who are experiencing financial difficulty can gain the servicees of a professional financial counsellor to help assess the current situation and to develop a plan for tuture success.
Applicants pay the first $100.00 of costs only.
Contact: Farm Consultation Service, Guelph, ON 1-800-265-8135
Farm Debt Mediation
Provides farmers and their creditors with mediation services pursuant to the Federal Farm Debt Mediation Act (FDMA) and Regulations to help them arrive at a mutually satisfactory arrangement. The service is private, confidential and an economical alternative to the often costly, public and drawn-out process of resolving insolvency disputes in the courts. Where this is noth successful, the parties still have recourse to the courts. Under the former Farm Deby Review Act, over 70 per cent of cases were successfully resolved using the mediation approach. Applicants may apply for a Stay of Proceedings, Review and Mediation if they have been served with a Notice of Intent to Realize on Security or a Review and Mediation Without a Stay.
Contact: Farm Debt Mediation Service, Guelph, ON, 1-800-265-7288