# Navigi

> A free national directory of community services in Canada: housing, food, health care, mental health and addictions, employment, income support, legal help, childcare, transportation and more. One page per service, per organization, per category and per community, with phone, website, hours, address, a confidence level and a "last verified" date on every listing.

Published by HelpSeeker Technologies. Listings come from the HelpSeeker directory (snapshot 2025-03-14, verified between 2022 and 2025) and from community directories HelpSeeker publishes. Every listing page states when it was last verified; listings older than two years, and listings not yet verified, say so and ask readers to contact the organization to confirm.

## Sections

- Canada hub: https://navigi.ca/ca/ lists every province and territory
- Province pages: [Alberta](https://navigi.ca/ab/), [British Columbia](https://navigi.ca/bc/), [Manitoba](https://navigi.ca/mb/), [New Brunswick](https://navigi.ca/nb/), [Newfoundland and Labrador](https://navigi.ca/nl/), [Nova Scotia](https://navigi.ca/ns/), [Northwest Territories](https://navigi.ca/nt/), [Nunavut](https://navigi.ca/nu/), [Ontario](https://navigi.ca/on/), [Prince Edward Island](https://navigi.ca/pe/), [Quebec](https://navigi.ca/qc/), [Saskatchewan](https://navigi.ca/sk/), [Yukon](https://navigi.ca/yt/)
- Community pages: https://navigi.ca/{province}/{community}/ with a map, search and category chips
- Category pages: https://navigi.ca/{province}/{community}/{category}/ (22 service domains plus other services)
- Service pages: https://navigi.ca/{province}/{community}/services/{slug}-{id}/ (schema.org Service)
- Organization pages: https://navigi.ca/{province}/{community}/organizations/{slug}-{id}/ (schema.org Organization)
- Machine-readable per community: https://navigi.ca/{province}/{community}/data.json and points.geojson
- Index of every community feed (open data): https://navigi.ca/ca/communities.json lists each community's url; append data.json to it for that community's full listings with phone, hours, address, categories and the last verified date
- Coverage dataset (open data, CSV): https://navigi.ca/coverage.csv, one row per census subdivision with listing counts, gaps and the nearest covered communities
- Per-province export (open data): https://navigi.ca/{province}/export.ndjson.gz, one listing per line with community, categories, coordinates, verified date and stale flag; index at https://navigi.ca/ca/export-index.json
- API (read-only JSON): https://api.navigi.ca/v1 (endpoints listed at /v1; /v1/services?province=&community=&need= answers services for X in Y; /v1/services/near answers near a point)
- API description (OpenAPI 3.1): https://api.navigi.ca/v1/openapi.json; API catalog (RFC 9727): https://navigi.ca/.well-known/api-catalog; every community page carries a Link header to its data.json, points.geojson and API record
- MCP server for AI assistants (Model Context Protocol, streamable HTTP): https://api.navigi.ca/v1/mcp  tools find_services, services_near, get_community, list_needs; add it by URL, nothing to install; listed in the official MCP registry as ca.navigi/navigi; see https://navigi.ca/how-to-cite/
- How to cite a listing: https://navigi.ca/how-to-cite/ (cite the listing page and the verified date it shows)
- The standard we hold ourselves to: https://navigi.ca/standard/
- Privacy: https://navigi.ca/privacy/
- About the data: https://navigi.ca/about-the-data/
- Staying safe while using the site: https://navigi.ca/safety/
- Sitemap index: https://navigi.ca/sitemap.xml
- Emergency: if you are in danger call 911. If you are struggling or thinking of self-harm, call or text 988.

## Categories

- Advocacy and care coordination (advocacy-care-coordination)
- Childcare and parenting (childcare-parenting)
- Culture and spirituality (culture-spirituality)
- Education and training (education-training)
- Emergency and crisis (emergency-crisis)
- Employment and work (employment-work)
- Environment and nature (environment-nature)
- Food and nutrition (food-nutrition)
- Goods and clothing (goods-clothing)
- Health care and medical (health-care-medical)
- Housing and homelessness (housing-homelessness)
- Hygiene and personal care (hygiene-personal-care)
- Income and financial help (income-financials)
- Information and referrals (information-referrals-navigation)
- Justice and legal (justice-legal)
- Language and translation (language-translation)
- Mental health and addictions (mental-health-addictions)
- Mobility and accessibility (mobility-accessibility)
- Pets and animals (pets-animals)
- Technology and communication (technology-communication)
- Transportation (transportation)
- Wellness and recreation (wellness-recreation)
- Other services (other-services)