Ya Estoy Aquí Healthcare Collective helps newcomers in Toronto who don't have OHIP find healthcare.
We create practical healthcare navigation tools, share trusted information, and work with communities and service providers to address the barriers newcomers face when seeking care. Our work is shaped by lived experience, frontline practice, and ongoing relationships with the people who use these services.
We offer clear, trusted help through our healthcare navigation manuals, social media, and community referrals. Our work is based on relationships, lived experience, and care.
- ✓ Help people understand their healthcare options and find services that accept IFHP, UHIP, or people without insurance
- ✓ Create manuals, maps, and online resources that make complex healthcare systems easier to understand
- ✓ Provide community outreach, health education, and support connecting with healthcare and social services
- ✓ Help service providers recognize where people are being excluded and make their services easier to access
Where to next?
Four ways to get help — pick where you want to start.
Healthcare Navigation Manuals
Step-by-step guides for navigating Toronto's healthcare system without OHIP — covering IFHP, primary care, sexual health, mental health, and more. Available in English, Spanish, and French.
Browse the manualsFind a Community Health Centre Near You
An interactive map of Community Health Centres across Toronto and the GTA, with catchment areas and intake information, so you can find where you belong and apply. Also includes a TTC reference map of Women's Health Organizations.
Open the mapImmunization Catch-Up Tool
Enter a person's date of birth and vaccine history, including Canadian or international records, to see which publicly funded vaccines may be due next under Ontario's schedule.
Open the toolContact Us
Have a question, need help finding healthcare, want to share feedback, or are interested in working with us? Send us a message. We read every message and will do our best to respond.
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“True support for newcomers goes beyond simply providing resources, and trust can only be earned from genuine, ongoing connections. To truly break down barriers, services must be shaped by the people who use them. Our model is not neutral — it carries the voices, frustrations, and urgency of our own group members who have lived and are living with precarious immigration status. We stand with them, because they have, and will always have, the final say on what we're standing for.”