Family Service Nova Scotia is a community based provincial organization offering a wide variety of programs to Nova Scotians. In addition to our ongoing support services, we also host monthly events in Bridgewater focused on parenting workshops, bonding activities, and family support. These gatherings create a safe space for fathers to connect, learn and grow within their families and communities. Please find our complete program menu under accessible programs on our website, there you can self referral to available programs in your area.

136 Pleasant St. (corner of Empire) Hot meals: Mon-Fri, noon to 2pm

YREACH: YREACH, a new and expanded YMCA Program, provides information, orientation and settlement support toImmigrants and Temporary Foreign Workers and their families who are new to communities across the province of Nova Scotia. YREACH has a mandate to raise awareness about the benefits of immigration in Nova Scotia and to work with local partners to create welcoming communities.

Wild Wonders Forest School aims to provide land based learning for children 3-12 years old. We value learning through play! Our educators use emergent curriculum and inquiry based learning to provide interest led and child centred activities. We aim to foster community development within our groups, as well as in the greater world.

Community Links is a province-wide organization that supports the establishment of age-friendly, inclusive communities in Nova Scotia by linking individuals and organizations to promote needed changes.

Provides emergency food support to those in need. Normally provides 3 to 5 days of food. Accepts food donations. What to expect & what to take with you: https://www.feednovascotia.ca/find-food/what-to-expect

ISANS is the leading immigrant settlement service agency in Atlantic Canada, serving 10,000+ clients annually in 104 communities across Nova Scotia, through many kinds of services—language, settlement, community integration, business development, and employment—both in person and online.

The South Shore Family Resource Association (SSFRA) is dedicated to work together with families to promote the well-being of children through partnerships, programs and resources. The South Shore Family Resource Association (SSFRA) provides free programming to families with children prenatal to eighteen + in Lunenburg, Queens, Shelburne and Digby Counties. Programs vary from site-to-site. Programming is delivered through four Family Resource Centres and numerous outreach sites, which are located throughout the South Shore and Digby County of Nova Scotia.

Celebrating and Embracing Diversity and Social Inclusion along the beautiful South Shore of Nova Scotia

We are a leading not-for-profit health charity working to improve the quality of life for Nova Scotians affected by Alzheimer's disease, other dementias and advance the search for the cause and cure.

​SSWC provides support, counselling, referrals, personal development programs, advocacy, volunteer engagement, wellness programs, youth programs, social opportunities for women, girls and other gender-diverse people.

The Salvation Army is an international Christian organization that began its work in Canada in 1882 and has grown to become one of the largest non-governmental direct providers of social services in the country. The Salvation Army gives hope and support to vulnerable people today and every day in 400 communities across Canada and more than 130 countries around the world. The Salvation Army offers practical assistance for children and families, often tending to the basic necessities of life, provides shelter for homeless people and rehabilitation for people who have lost control of their lives to an addiction. Church at 116 Pleasant Street

We've been leading home and community care in Canada for over a century. We were among the first organizations in the country to offer home care and public health nursing and now, over a century later, we provide home and community support services to over 10,000 people every day across Ontario and Nova Scotia.