Families in Transition Parenting Resources
The Families in Transition program closed effective Oct. 10, 2025.
Following are helpful resources regarding family separation and divorce.
Handouts for Parents:
Children Coping with Separation and Divorce
10 Ways to Minimize Conflict with Children
What can Families in Transition do to Help
Counselling and Reading Materials handout
Useful Links: Alternate Organizations and Agencies offering Services to Children and Families
The 519
Abrigo Center
The Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic
Canadian Hearing Services (for people deaf & hard of hearing)
Catholic Family Services of Toronto
The Centre for Spanish Speaking Peoples
The Child Development Institute
Chinese Family Services of Ontario
COSTI Immigrant Services
Jewish Family and Child Service
Native Child & Family Services of Toronto
The Neighborhood Organization
Oasis Centre des Femmes
Riverdale Immigrant Women’s Centre
Scarborough Women’s Centre
Toronto Rape Crisis Centre
Tropicana Community Services
West Neighbourhood House
Women’s College Hospital Trauma Therapy Program
Women’s Habitat
Women’s Health in Women’s Hands
Your local Community Health Centre – look up Toronto Community Health Centre
Hospital of Sick Kids (Centre for Community Mental Health)
The Child Development Institute
Kids Help Phone
Lumenus
Open Counselling
Strides Toronto
What’s Up Walk-In
Yorktown Family Services
Youthlink
Online Divorce Related Links
The following list outlines websites that contain publications of interest for separating, divorcing, and blending families. Examples of publications from each website are noted in bullets. Please access websites for full publication listings.
- Family Law Publications, including:
- What Happens Next? Information for kids About Separation and Divorce
- Making plans: A guide to parenting arrangements after separation or divorce
- The Federal Child Support Guidelines: Step-by-Step
- Dispute Prevention and Resolution Publications, including:
- Resolving Disputes – Think About Your Options
- Divorce and Separation Publications, including:
- What You Should Know about Family Law in Ontario (available in 9 languages)
- Getting Divorced (Community Legal Education Ontario)
- Family Law Information Program (Legal Aid Ontario)
- Where do I stand? A child’s guide to separation and divorce
- Community Legal Education Ontario Publications, including:
- An Introduction to Family Law in Ontario
- Separation and Divorce: Child Custody, Access, and Parenting Plans
- Separation and Divorce: Child Support
- Family Law Education for Women Publications, including:
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Child Custody and Access
- Child Protection and Family Law
- How Property is Divided in Family Law
- Support Payments 2015
- Tax rules for spousal support or child support payments made and received under a court order or written agreement
- Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development Bulletins or Other Publications, including:
- Volume 6, No. 1 – March 2007 – The most important thing parents do.
- Responding to Children’s Needs: Important Developmental Milestones in Young Children