About this Site

The Ontario Aboriginal Calendar and Directory of Aboriginal Service Organizations are pilot projects of 211Ontario.ca, funded by the Federal Youth Justice Renewal Funds. The web-based calendar and service directory are online services designed to help people connect with Aboriginal services, events and organizations in Ontario and are accessed through a portal from 211Ontario.ca.

"For some time now the Aboriginal community in Ontario has had a need for a comprehensive and current directory of related services available to them throughout the Province. In addition to this, a single source of community related events, whereby we may post upcoming Pow-Wows, Visiting Elders, Council meetings or training workshops would serve us well. I look forward to this pilot project, and I strongly believe that our participation and the outcomes will greatly benefit future generations."

In the Spirit of Friendship
Stephen Paquette, Member Toronto Aboriginal Action Network
211/ Street Helpline Supervisor

Ontario Aboriginal Calendar

The Ontario Aboriginal Calendar is designed to support community postings of programs, news, resources, events and workshops of interest to the Aboriginal community specifically and to related service providers. This community based calendar will be augmented by a Directory of Aboriginal Service Organizations in Ontario.

The calendar can be used to:
• Promote events, such as workshops, celebrations, guest speakers
• Submit news items, such as program announcements, new programs or new research
• Share resources of interest to the Aboriginal community

All submissions are previewed by an editor before being posted to the calendar.

The calendar, part of the Content-Sharing Constellation project led by ACTEW , is an innovative approach to sharing information online across Ontario’s voluntary sector. Anyone can post news items, workshops, events, resources and programs, and all postings are automatically shared with web sites of many other community-based training organizations.

Directory of Aboriginal Service Organizations in Ontario

211Ontario.ca consolidates the many existing local sources of Ontario human services data into standardized provincial databases. In addition to the Ontario Aboriginal Calendar and using information from the database, 211Ontario.ca will also host an online directory of Aboriginal service organizations in Ontario under useful topic headings such as youth, housing and health. Service providers can submit information about their organizations, programs and services, and update their information online.

We hope that you will find the Ontario Aboriginal Calendar a useful tool in promoting your services and events. Your feedback and comments are welcome. Contact info@211Ontario.ca.