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CND Programs, Projects and Networks

CND carries out or participates in a number of programs and initiatives:

• Pears, Leonard and Sudbury Projects
  The Pears, Leonard and Sudbury projects are unique housing projects addressing homelessness in our city. A product of a partnership between 14 local service agencies these projects provide housing solutions which give tenants a home and a community at the same time. Partner agencies also support the skill development of tenants to achieve their personal goals.
  
  
  
• Growing Up Healthy Downtown (GUHD)
  GUHD is a partnership of eight dynamic, community-based multi-service agencies offering a variety of programs to support families with young children (0 to 6 years old) living in downtown Toronto.
  
  
• Illahee Community Connections
  An initiative for immigrant and newcomer seniors living in Toronto.
  Illahee Community Connections supports the creation of new opportunities for seniors to develop partnerships, community capacity and services for their community. They are also supported to develop cross-cultural programming designed to reduce isolation, form social networks, deliver health promotion education and strengthen peer volunteer capacity among seniors.
  
  
• Community Action (Networks and Projects)
  Community Action staff together with other organizations and agencies forms networks and partnerships that address issues common to most marginalized communities:
  
  • Web-based Community Asset Mapping Partnership
  • New Horizons: Healing and Hope Coalition
  • Scarborough Anti-Poverty Coalition
  • Bathurst-Finch Network
  • Iranian-Canadian Social Service Providers Network (ICSSPN)
  • Lawrence Heights Inter Agency Network
  • Lawrence-Allen Revitalization Project

Community Action Staff work with emerging grass-roots groups to build organizational capacity and help them achieve not-for-profit status.

• Iranian-Canadian Youth Support Group
• Guidance of Canadian Somali Youth
• Afghan Canadian Seniors Centre
• South Asian Community Support Canada
• Mothers Helping Mothers
  
  
• Crescent-Town Youth Services Network
  

 

How To Reach Us: To find out more about CND please call 416.586.9777 or e-mail us at communityaction@familyservicetoronto.org

Our Location:
Community Neighbourhood Development
Family Service Toronto
747 Warden Avenue
Toronto, ON M1L 4A8.

 

 

 

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