A Human Needs Task Force was implemented as part of the City’s Emergency Management Plan and emergency response to COVID-19 to ensure that we are responsive to the emerging needs of the community.
The task force is currently focused on service coordination for immediate, medium and long-term response associated with five emerging needs:
- Outreach to isolated populations
- Food security
- Transportation
- Volunteer coordination
- Housing and homeless needs
Task force partners
- 2-1-1
- Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa 613-241-1573 ext. 314
- Banff Community House 613-739-5702
- Caldwell Family Centre 613- 728-1800
- Canadian Red Cross - Ottawa Branch 613-740-1900
- Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) 613-737-7791
- Carleton Sprott School of Business 613-520-2388
- Carty House 613-236-8855
- Centre 454 – Anglican Social Services 613-235-4351
- Centretown Community Health Centre 613-233-4443
- Centre for Social Enterprise Development (CSED)
- Champlain Community Support Network
- City of All Women Initiative (CAWI)
- City of Ottawa 3-1-1
- Coalition of Day Programs
- Coalition of Community Health and Resource Centres of Ottawa
- Dreammind Group 613-723 6216
- Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre (EORC) 613-741-6025
- Family Services Ottawa 613-725-3601 ext. 0
- Food For Thought Net-Café
- Good Companions, The 613-236-0428
- Immigrant Women Services Ottawa 613-729-3145
- Interval House Ottawa 613-234-5193
- Just Food 613-824-7771
- Lowertown Community Resource Centre 613-789-3930
- Makonsag 613-724-5844
- Matthew House 613-591-6681
- Montfort Renaissance 613-789-5144
- Nepean, Rideau and Osgoode Community Resource Centre 613-596-5626
- Ottawa Aboriginal Coalition
- Ottawa Coalition of Community Houses
- Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women (OCTEVAW) 613-237-1000
- Ottawa Community Foundation 613-236-1616
- Ottawa Community Housing 613-731-1182
- Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization (OCISO) 613-725-0202
- Ottawa Food Bank 613-745-7001
- Ottawa Inner City Health
- Ottawa Local Immigration Partnership, The (OLIP) 613-232-9634, ext. 385
- Ottawa Network for Education (ONFE) 613-366-3085
- Ottawa Police Service 613- 236-1222
- Ottawa Public Health 613-580-6744
- Ottawa Victim Services (OVS)
- Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre 613-820-4922
- Parkdale Food Centre 613-722-8019
- Rideau Rockliffe Community Resource Centre 613-745-0073
- Salvation Army, The 1-800-725-2769
- Social Planning Council of Ottawa 613-236-9300
- Somerset West Community Health Centre 613-238-8210
- South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre 613-737-5115
- Stepstone House 613-421-2114
- United Way East Ontario 613-228-6700
- Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, The 613-748-0657
- Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre 613-591-3686
Contact information
Email HNTF@ottawa.ca
Call 613-580-2424 ext. 26753
Please ask anyone facing difficulty to call 3-1-1. The City of Ottawa has many supports in place for residents in need and are expanding our capacity to meet local needs.