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The Reproductive Options and Services Clinic (ROSE Clinic) is a procedural abortion and a medical abortion clinic based at the Victoria General site of the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax.
Please see the website for more information about the ROSE Clinic: https://www.nshealth.ca/abortion
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Offers pregnancy options counselling around 3 basic choices:
- Continue the pregnancy and become a parent
- Continue the pregnancy and arrange for an adoption, either within your family or through an agency
- End the pregnancy by having an abortion
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Government of Nova Scotia - Department of Opportunities and Social Development
Dartmouth District Office - Garland Avenue
1-866-259-7780 Show More
Provides supports and guidance to parents, expecting parents or guardians wishing to make a decision to parent, place a child for adoption or consider alternative plans.
Provides the counselling requirements for legal adoption placement in Nova Scotia including Customary Adoptions, and provides connections to other community supports for parenting or referrals for support with medical care/abortion.
Options counselling social workers can travel to clients as needed. All potential plans are explored and supported by the options counselling social workers.
If seeking an adoption plan, the counsellor will assist parents in selecting an adoptive family, and assist with decisions regarding future contact. Detailed social and medical history are also collected as per legislative requirements.
Provides the counselling requirements for legal adoption placement in Nova Scotia including Customary Adoptions, and provides connections to other community supports for parenting or referrals for support with medical care/abortion.
Options counselling social workers can travel to clients as needed. All potential plans are explored and supported by the options counselling social workers.
If seeking an adoption plan, the counsellor will assist parents in selecting an adoptive family, and assist with decisions regarding future contact. Detailed social and medical history are also collected as per legislative requirements.
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Nova Scotia Health - Central Zone
Cobequid Community Health Centre - Lower Sackville
Karrie Rayne: 902-869-6131 - Social Worker (full-time)Susan Harris: 902-869-6106 - Social Worker (full-time)
Lori Forbes: 902-869-7107 - Social Worker (part-time)
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Offers confidential counselling, education, services, and support in a safe environment by a clinic social worker including:
- Pregnancy testing
- Positive pregnancy test counselling
- Supportive counselling
- Connecting with other community services
- Abuse support
- Getting financial support
- Romantic relationships and relationships with friends
- Family conflict
- Addictions
- Emotional wellness
- Mental wellness
- Sexual orientation
- Body image worries
- Stress
- Getting other supports, which may include health, education, and social services
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Provides sexual health services including:
- Health Care Referrals: South Shore Sexual Health does not offer medical care at their centre, but they can help people to navigate the health care system
- One-on-one Support: Provides information and supportive counselling on issues such as birth control, emergency contraception, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), proper condom and oral dam use, sexual orientation, sexual harassment, sexual assault and date rape, puberty, healthy relationships, how and when to talk to your children about sexual health, menopause, sexual dysfunction, etc.
- Menstrual Supplies: Provides free menstrual supplies like pads, tampons, reusable cups, etc.
- HIV Self Testing: Provides free HIV test kits
- Safer Sex Supplies: Provides free safer sex supplies like condoms, dams, lube, etc.
- Pregnancy Testing: Provides free medical-grade pregnancy tests
- Emergency Contraception: Helps people access emergency contraception pills like Plan B in their community
- Abortion Information and Unplanned Pregnancy Support: Offers support and referral information for all people facing an unplanned or unintended pregnancy. This includes evidence-based information on abortion, adoption, and parenting options.
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Provides services by a team of doctors and nurses including:
- Trans supportive care
- Birth control education and counselling
- Reduced cost hormonal birth control (pill, patch, and ring)
- Reduced cost Plan B/emergency contraception ("morning after pill")
- Free pregnancy testing and pregnancy options counselling
- Pap tests, pelvic, and breast exams
- Testicular and prostate checks
- Sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, counselling, and treatment
- HIV testing
- Outreach education related to healthy sexuality
- Support for relationships, sexual orientation, and gender identity
- Information and resources on other topics related to sexual health
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Government of Nova Scotia - Department of Opportunities and Social Development
Kings District Office
1-866-259-7780 Show More
Provides supports and guidance to parents, expecting parents or guardians wishing to make a decision to parent, place a child for adoption or consider alternative plans.
Provides the counselling requirements for legal adoption placement in Nova Scotia including Customary Adoptions, and provides connections to other community supports for parenting or referrals for support with medical care/abortion.
Options counselling social workers can travel to clients as needed. All potential plans are explored and supported by the options counselling social workers.
If seeking an adoption plan, the counsellor will assist parents in selecting an adoptive family, and assist with decisions regarding future contact. Detailed social and medical history are also collected as per legislative requirements.
Provides the counselling requirements for legal adoption placement in Nova Scotia including Customary Adoptions, and provides connections to other community supports for parenting or referrals for support with medical care/abortion.
Options counselling social workers can travel to clients as needed. All potential plans are explored and supported by the options counselling social workers.
If seeking an adoption plan, the counsellor will assist parents in selecting an adoptive family, and assist with decisions regarding future contact. Detailed social and medical history are also collected as per legislative requirements.
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Government of Nova Scotia - Department of Opportunities and Social Development
New Glasgow District Office
1-866-259-7780 Show More
Provides supports and guidance to parents, expecting parents or guardians wishing to make a decision to parent, place a child for adoption or consider alternative plans.
Provides the counselling requirements for legal adoption placement in Nova Scotia including Customary Adoptions, and provides connections to other community supports for parenting or referrals for support with medical care/abortion.
Options counselling social workers can travel to clients as needed. All potential plans are explored and supported by the options counselling social workers.
If seeking an adoption plan, the counsellor will assist parents in selecting an adoptive family, and assist with decisions regarding future contact. Detailed social and medical history are also collected as per legislative requirements.
Provides the counselling requirements for legal adoption placement in Nova Scotia including Customary Adoptions, and provides connections to other community supports for parenting or referrals for support with medical care/abortion.
Options counselling social workers can travel to clients as needed. All potential plans are explored and supported by the options counselling social workers.
If seeking an adoption plan, the counsellor will assist parents in selecting an adoptive family, and assist with decisions regarding future contact. Detailed social and medical history are also collected as per legislative requirements.
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Provides guidance and support for sexual and reproductive health issues. Includes:
- Individual support and education on a variety of topics including sexual health, reproductive health and pregnancies
- Referrals to community services, mental health clinics, and other clinics
- Information about where to obtain birth control, pap smears, and STI testing
- Free pregnancy tests
- Pregnancy options support
- Post-abortion support
- Free safer sex supplies such as external and internal condoms, oral dams, lubricants, etc.
- Free menstrual products such as cups, pads, tampons, panty liners, etc.
Also offers resources to help parents and caregivers navigate conversations about sexual health topics with children and youth. Offers resources to borrow including books and videos on a variety of sexual health topics. Offers sexual health presentations to community organizations and educational institutions.
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Government of Nova Scotia - Department of Opportunities and Social Development
North Sydney District Office
1-866-259-7780 Show More
Provides supports and guidance to parents, expecting parents or guardians wishing to make a decision to parent, place a child for adoption or consider alternative plans.
Provides the counselling requirements for legal adoption placement in Nova Scotia including Customary Adoptions, and provides connections to other community supports for parenting or referrals for support with medical care/abortion.
Options counselling social workers can travel to clients as needed. All potential plans are explored and supported by the options counselling social workers.
If seeking an adoption plan, the counsellor will assist parents in selecting an adoptive family, and assist with decisions regarding future contact. Detailed social and medical history are also collected as per legislative requirements.
Provides the counselling requirements for legal adoption placement in Nova Scotia including Customary Adoptions, and provides connections to other community supports for parenting or referrals for support with medical care/abortion.
Options counselling social workers can travel to clients as needed. All potential plans are explored and supported by the options counselling social workers.
If seeking an adoption plan, the counsellor will assist parents in selecting an adoptive family, and assist with decisions regarding future contact. Detailed social and medical history are also collected as per legislative requirements.
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Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights
1-888-642-2725 Text Line: 613-800-6757 - Texts will be answered between 10am and 10pm Atlantic Time
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Provides information about sexual and reproductive health, including pregnancy options, and referrals to clinics and hospitals that provide reproductive health services, including abortion.
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