About Us

Halton Information Providers (HIP) is a coalition of non-profit community resource centres serving Halton. Established in 1988, HIP was formed to eliminate the duplication of effort in the collection of Halton's community services information, and to work in partnership with others to collect and maintain information that could then be used, and made available to all.

HIP is a member of InformOntario, InformCanada and Inform USA (formerly the Alliance of Information and Referral Systems), and the regional community information provider to Ontario 211 Services, Home and Community Care Support Services Mississauga Halton, the Halton Child Care Directory and Information Line and other local, regional and provincial projects.

HIP includes the following coalition members:

Please help us spread the word that we exist and resources are available

• Follow us on social media, help us with sharing important resources with the community. We try our best to share information or resources that are important, lesser known about, and/or serving our vulnerable communities.

• Browse our directory, find a resource you wish more people knew about, and share it with the community! Feel free to tag us, and we'll try our best to help you share!

• Use the sample graphics we've created, to promote us on your own social media and/or workplace accounts. Just 'right click' the graphic and 'save as', then upload the graphic to your social media post.

• Check out our resource posters, print and share them at your workplace/school!

• Link to us from your website, by adding hipinfo.ca to your list of resources, and/or by adding one of our HCSD Search Widgets which allows your visitors to search our directory from your own website!

• Invite us to your event or staff training. We love sharing resources, we can help share what's available to the community, or answer any questions about navigating our directory.