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360°kids services include: •Home Base Drop-In Centre(Richmond Hill & Vaughan):serves more than 1500 high-risk youth each year in York Region. The Centre is a one-stop shop for youth and provides services to address issues youth presently face – employment, family issues, life skills, shelter, hot meals, counselling, recreational activities and clothing. •Base for Success: a 12 week employment program for youth to gain experience and job skills in a paid practicum. •Our Youth Residences for youth in crisis. Both residences provide a home for youth while they settle differences with their parents or work towards living independently. •Aftercare/Transitional Support program helps youth stay on the right path. •STAY: Youth Apartments offer a supportive housing for those youth 18-24 who are transitioning to independent living. •Family Resource Centres offer innovative support programs for 1400 families with preschool children of many cultures, each year throughout York Region.

Covenant House Vancouver offers 24-hour crisis shelter, a 6- 24 month supported living program, street outreach, life-skills training and a daily drop-in for homeless, runaway and street involved youth aged 16-24. Most of our kids have either fled physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse or have been “kicked out” of their homes. Covenant House supports kids exiting the streets while helping them heal from past traumas. We understand that life changes are challenging and do everything in our power to ensure that young people succeed at whatever plan they have chosen for themselves. As long as genuine effort is demonstrated, so is our commitment. .

Avalon Women's Drop-In Centres are dedicated to helping women seeking recovery from addictions. The centres are a supportive environment to meet other women in recovery, and find the help needed to turn a life around from addiction. Services are free, including child care during noon hour AA meeting

Sherbourne Health Centre offers innovative and specialized programs for LGBT youth and adults, for newcomers and for homeless and under-housed people. Key programs include the SOY (Supporting Our Youth) program for queer and trans youth (including various groups and drop-ins, as well as mentoring, and employment and housing support), the LGBTQ Parenting Network, and, province-wide, Rainbow Health Ontario. The Rotary Club of Toronto Health Buses and an Infirmary for acute convalescent care offer key support for homeless, unsafely housed and street-involved people within the local community. And individual counselling and group support are offered to newcomers. We are recognized for our respectful and non-judgemental approach, our expert staff and the very real impact we make on the lives of some of Toronto's most marginalized community members. Primary healthcare services are supported by the Ministry of Health, but we rely on voluntary donations to run our vital community progams.

The Salvation Army Gateway is a 118 bed shelter for men experiencing homelessness in Toronto. We do our best to ensure that our residents have a safe and supportive environment to rest their head—somewhere that feels more like a home than an institution. But beyond meeting the basic needs of food and shelter, we strive to be a place where folks can find friendship, develop their skills, become empowered, and leave in better shape than when they first came through our doors. Something we hear from our residents over and over is that The Gateway is “the place to go if you want to get clean,” and we’re very proud of that reputation. The Gateway is also a drop-in centre for men and women experiencing homelessness and marginalization. We serve meals, offer recreational programs, provide a safe and warm space, and strive to create a healthy community with those who access our services. Finally, we launched a social enterprise (Gateway Linens) in 2009! See our website for more info.

BB4CK works in partnership with Calgary schools to make and deliver free healthy lunches for students who would otherwise go hungry. Through the work of community groups and volunteers, we provide about 2,000 lunches each day. Lunches are prepared in our main kitchen, and in various other locations by community groups including retirees, parent groups and local businesses. Nourishment is available to any young person who arrives at school without enough to eat. BB4CK works with school staff members to identify needs and to plan how best to make sure hungry students get the nutrition required to think clearly and learn. By enabling better education outcomes, BB4CK gives students a hand up, not just a handout. Each lunch costs only about $1 to make. Brown Bagging for Calgary’s Kids has one goal: no hungry kids in Calgary. We strive toward this goal each day by providing healthy lunches directly to kids, and by empowering communities to create lasting social change.

The Bonnechere Manor Foundation is a registered charity made up of a group of volunteers dedicated to raising funds to enrich the quality of life for all residents and clients at the Bonnechere Manor. Whether it is an Auditorium, state-of-the-art equipment, or programs to enrich the residents' quality of life, the Foundation is dedicated to making Bonnechere Manor truly a home-away-from-home. The Foundation is also a vehicle to raise funds that support capital projects and other programs that are not funded through existing Ministry of Health and Long Term Care mechanisms.

The Royal LePage Shelter Foundation operates on two levels: our Royal LePage offices across Canada support local women's shelters that provide assistance to women and children fleeing abuse. On a national level we raise funds for violence prevention programs such as The Fourth R, and provide grants in partnership with the Canadian Women's Foundation.

To offer support and encouragement to people who are marginalized because of mental illness, disabilities, substance abuse, poverty, or homelessness to increase their level of self sufficiency by providing opportunities to generate income, improve health, and integrate into the community

Our services help individuals and families meet basic needs and develop skills, social networks and experience to help them to fulfill their life aspirations in Canada. They include: • Clothing Services - clothing boutique open daily, teen shopping days, Annual Prom Boutique and monthly Seniors Mobile Malls in local retirement residences • Community Gift-giving: Holiday Angel Programs and Helping For Eid Baskets • Volunteer Program: 140 individuals help to deliver our clothing services; most of our volunteers are newcomer women who are seeking to improve language and cultural competency, expand their social networks and gain workplace experience • Community engagement: Friendship Circle, Peer Language Training and Community excursions • Skills-building: certificate-based programs in business, retail and customer services skills offered in partnership with Seneca College and the Retail Council of Canada

More Than a Roof Mennonite Housing Society was founded by Mennonite Central Committee in 1984 to develop housing-based solutions for people struggling with poverty, poor health and other difficult circumstances. The society’s “More Than a Roof” value-added philosophy aims to build supportive communities where people can heal and create positive change. In partnership with CMHC, their first community in 1986 was Charleswood Court, a 26 unit mixed income, courtyard community for families and singles. They have grown to ten communities since then. They manage six family communities across the province, mental health housing in North Vancouver and three buildings for singles in Yaletown.

Developing World Connections is a non-profit and volunteer driven organization that creates and facilitates meaningful international volunteer experiences in the developing world. Volunteers contribute their human and financial resources to sustainable development projects managed by the society’s partner organizations with a proven record of sustainable development practices. Developing World Connections is non sectarian and has no religious, political or professional affiliations. We provide international volunteer experiences in Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Swaziland, Cambodia, India, Peru, Rwanda, Kenya, Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal and Sierra Leone. For more information, please visit: www.developingworldconnections.org Email: [email protected] Call toll free (in North America): 1-866-458-8209