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Youth volunteer opportunity: Be a witness to poverty

Our Social Reform unit is recruiting young people aged 16-21 to help document examples of poverty in Toronto.  Volunteers may use a variety of multimedia tools and media including photographs, videos, paintings, drawings, or collages. Volunteer hours can be recognized as Community Service Hours for high school students. For more information, consult the volunteer posting.  

FST marks International Day Against Homophobia

Staff in FST's David Kelley LGBTQ & HIV/Aids Counselling Services unit wore red T-shirts to mark International Day Against Homophobia on May 17. The Pride rainbow flag also flew high outside our Church Street office where there was a display of posters, brochures and information about the day's history and this year's theme - Sexual Diversity in the Workplace.
The World Health Organization removed homosexuality from its list of mental health illnesses on May 17, 1990. The idea to hold an annual day to fight homophobia originated in Canada. It was started by Fondation Émergence in Quebec in 2003. With the participation of partners, this national day has spread to Belgium and France and a host of other countries, making it an international day.

FST welcomes United Way funding increase

Two-per-cent hike to base funding announced April 20 will provide capacity to respond to emerging needs and priorities, says Margaret Hancock, Executive Director of Family Service Toronto.

“We are thrilled  to learn of this increase to our annual core funding from United Way,” she added. “This additional support will give our community a renewed measure of stability in what remains an uncertain time.” Click here for full media release from United Way Toronto.

Family Service Toronto joins city agencies in cheering base funding increase from United Way
"A cause for celebration," says FST executive director Margaret Hancock.
Read article in Toronto Star, April 23, 2012.

FST Programs and Services

• Counselling Services
• Connecting Families - Parenting Program
• David Kelley Services - counselling for LGBTQ community and people living with HIV/AIDS
• Families in Transition – help for separating, divorcing and remarrying families
• Seniors and Caregivers Support Services
• Pat's Place - Abused Older Person's Program
• Violence Against Women – help for women in abusive relationships
• Next Steps/Partner Abuse Response Program
• Campaign 2000 – provincial and national anti-poverty coalitions
• Options - a program for people labeled with intellectual disabilities
• Passport Initiative - community participation supports for young adults who have a developmental disability
• Community and Neighbourhood Development Projects
• Growing Up Healthy Downtown - GUHD - a program for families with young children
• Social Reform