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Toronto City Mission was established on November 14, 1879, by a group of ministers and laymen [1] to improve the spiritual [2] [3] and material welfare of poor people in the Toronto area. The focus was on preaching the Christian gospel and assisting needy parents, children, widows, the elderly, the sick, the hungry and the unemployed.
The JCC was the main advocacy group for the Jewish community in Canada from 1919 to 2011, advocating for human rights, social equality, Canadian immigration reform and civil and political rights in Canada. [9] [10] Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee political; Canadian Radio League political; Canadian Snowbird Association political
In November 2023, Toronto City Council voted unanimously to endorse the expansion of the service. [19] The program was launched city-wide by Mayor Chow on September 26, 2024. [20] The service will operate with 12 mobile teams of two crisis workers, with the targeted average response time being 25 minutes. [21]
On March 16, 2021, the city of Toronto announced, via news release, what it described as a new city program that would support people living in encampments with safe and supportive indoor space. The Pathways Inside program was announced in response to the encampments which had sprung up around the city's downtown core during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Like in the United States, welfare in Canada colloquially refers to direct payments to low-income individuals only, and not to healthcare and education spending. [2] It is rarely used in Canada as the name of any specific program, however, because of its negative connotations. (In French, it is commonly known as le bien-être social or l'aide ...
St Bartholomew's Anglican Church (also known as St Bartholomew's, Regent Park) is a parish of the Diocese of Toronto in the Anglican Church of Canada. It is a ministry in collaboration with the Cathedral Church of St. James. Located in the Regent Park area of Toronto, the congregation operates several outreach programs. [1] It is an Anglo ...
The 519 is one of the City of Toronto's agencies and corporations, alongside organizations like Build Toronto, Exhibition Place and the Toronto Public Library. [4] Led by a community board of directors, rather than the city's parks and recreations department, The 519 leverages community insight, knowledge and resources to determine usage of the building.
She joined Central Toronto Youth Services in April 2007. Over the past 17 years she has served as the Founding Executive Director of Kids Help Phone, the National Executive Director of Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada and the first President of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Toronto. She leads a Director team which includes Dr. Fred Mathews ...