Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health

Community health service promotes and protects the health of the community. Offers a wide range of clinics, classes and courses. Programs include:

• Prenatal and parent-child support programs
• Prenatal nutrition
• Breastfeeding clinics
• Speech and language services
• School immunization clinics for Grade 7 and high school students
• Financial assistance through the CINOT program (Children in Need of Treatment) to cover the cost of urgent dental care for children in eligible low-income families
• Healthy Smiles Ontario Program
• Immunization clinics
• Food handler training and certification
• Sexual health clinics - free and confidential services including birth control options, sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment, pregnancy tests and counselling, Hepatitis A and B immunizations, anonymous HIV tests
• Harm Reduction services including needle exchange program, counselling and referrals, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C testing

Public Health is also responsible for:

• Investigation, reporting and control of infectious diseases
• Food premises inspection
• Investigation of air quality concerns in public buildings, schools or rented dwellings
• Monitoring the quality of drinking and recreational water and testing private well wate
• Information and investigation of any situation where the public's health may be affected

• Family Services - Pregnancy / Postnatal