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For decades, Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Toronto has been well known and respected for the important services they provide to children in our community. Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Toronto is a non-profit organization focusing on providing mentors to children in need of additional positive adult support.
MISSION: We commit to improving the lives of Toronto's children and youth by delivering the highest quality volunteer based mentoring programs.
When we discovered in December 2005 that thirty children in one class were sharing ONE pencil in a small community in Niger, Africa, we decided to act. We envision a world in which every child has an equal opportunity to be fully educated. To that end we adopt one community at a time and do what we can to make a difference. .Pencils for Kids strives to give every child opportunities to dream. We are a registered charitable grass roots organization that believes in the power of small scale projects focusing on lifting children from poverty through education. We sharpen the minds of the future!
Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada is a leading national youth-serving organization, providing affordable, enriching, supervised programs, after school and at other times when kids aren't in school, to 200,000 children and youth and their families each year in major cities, rural neighbourhoods and First Nations communities. We are a growing association of Clubs with 700 locations in communities from coast to coast. Boys and Girls Clubs have been helping young Canadians to discover, develop and achieve their potential, for over 100 years.
The mission of Boys and Girls Clubs across Canada is to provide safe, supportive places in the community where children and youth can experience new opportunities, overcome barriers, build positive relationships and develop confidence and skills for life. The programs Clubs provide focus on supporting young people�??s healthy physical, educational, social and emotional development.
Boys and Girls Clubs keep at risk children and youth off of the streets and actively engaged in positive, constructive programs and activities, while supporting them to become healthy, responsible, compassionate and competent individuals.
Since 1991, Camp Winston has been offering a summer camp experience to children from all over the world with complex neurological disorders.
"Camp Winston is a place much like heaven," says Chris Clapp, a Camp Winston camper for nine years who has just turned 23 and is starting Law School this fall. Chris was diagnosed with Tourette Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Learning Disabilities as a child. "In every other summer camp I attended I was often left on the sidelines - but with loving and specialized one-on-one support from Camp Winston staff and my amazing family I have succeeded in every task I have ever put my mind to."
Located on Sparrow Lake in Muskoka, Camp Winston exists for kids with very complex neurological disorders who need highly specialized support to be successful at camp. Every child deserves an opportunity to have a fun summer camp experience and Camp Winston makes that possible for thousands of children who otherwise would not be able to attend camp.
Campers usually have a combination of neurological disorders which include:
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Tourette's Disorder
Learning Disabilities
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Campers are encouraged and supported as they participate often for the first time in various sports, swimming, water sports, arts and crafts, theatre, challenge ropes course, nature studies and canoe trips. While having fun, they learn vital social and gross motor skills specific to their needs.
Some camps offer integrated programs for children with neurological disorders. But these are not right for every child. Camp Winston is the only summer camp in Ontario offering specialized programs solely for kids with these complex neurological needs including social skills training. Counsellors and activity instructors are older and more experienced, and the one-to-one support allows for individual attention.
Camp Winston is a charitable organization and receives no direct funding for its operations.
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Child Find Ontario is a not-for-profit charitable organization that participates in the search and prevention of missing children. We are recognized by the RCMP National Missing Children's Services and affiliated with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Washington.
The Canadian Society for Social Development (CSSD) is a federally incorporated non-profit with charitable status. Our mandate is to provide online-training to Canadians with disabilities and others facing barriers to employment across the country.
Street Kids International is an international charity based in Canada that helps street kids internationally become healthy, self-sufficient and respected. We build on the resilience of street kids with relevant programs to improve their quality of life. These programs provide training that empowers street kids to develop safe and productive ways to earn a living working on the street.
Amici is a registered charitable organization that raises funds to send financially challenged boys and girls to summer camps. Summer camp not only provides young people with an exciting opportunity to learn activities and skills, but also enables them to develop character as well as social and leadership abilities.
The Vision: Kids transforming themselves and the world, one goal at a time.
Future Possibilities provides programs to children and youth, ages 8 to 14, from underserved Canadian communities that will challenge and inspire them to reach higher, achieve more and learn how to create their own possibilities, both now and in the future. They seek to empower children, through one-to-one coaching, to take the lead in planning and accomplishing diverse and meaningful community goals, with integrity, respect, leadership, creativity and passion.
Since Geri and Harry Berholz launched Future Possibilities Canada in 2001, Future Possibilities for Kids (as it is now known) has grown by more than 800%! Over the past seven years, more than 1,300 children and adults have participated in FPK's one-of-a-kind leadership and life skills development programs delivered to 8- to 14 years old children and youth in Toronto, York Region and London, Ontario.
Leave Out Violence (LOVE) is a leading not for profit youth violence prevention organization in Canada. LOVE helps youth who have lived with violence end violence in their lives, and then become community leaders of violence prevention.
LOVE began in 1993 by a woman named Twinkle, whose husband was murdered by a 14 year-old boy. After dealing with her feelings of anger and sadness, she learned that the boy who killed her husband was also himself, a victim of violence. In order to break the cycle of violence, Twinkle decided to spend her life helping youth learn to help themselves, and eventually how to help other youth as well.
In this rapidly changing world, there's one thing that never changes: we all want to make sure that our kids grow up healthy, happy, and most of all, capable of dealing with life in the 21st century. How can we, as parents, caregivers and educators help them? Through tvoparents.com - an online community that encourages you to get involved in your child's education and participate in everything from discussions to programming choices.
Kids Help Phone is Canada's only toll-free, national, bilingual, phone and web counselling, referral and information service for children and youth. We provide immediate anonymous and confidential support, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Staffed by trained professional counsellors with a wide variety of backgrounds including social work, psychology, sociology, and child and youth services, Kids Help Phone helped Canadian kids in need more than two million times on the phone and online in 2007.
By partnering the education and business communities, Junior Achievement of Central Ontario is able to give students the edge they need when entering the workforce.
KINSA helps to find, rescue and heal child victims of abuse whose images are shared on the Internet.
The Otesha Project is a national youth-run charitable organization created in 2002. We use theatre to mobilize young people to create local and global change through their everyday consumer choices. To date, we have reached over 100,000 Canadians directly with our theatre presentations and workshops that inspire youth to re-evaluate their daily consumer choices to reflect the kind of world they want to live in.
Please email info@otesha.ca with inquiries. This page is not checked frequently.
Inspire. Inform. Involve.
This simple guiding principle is one of the reasons why we've been successful in enabling youth leaders. How this blueprint is achieved differs for everyone, but they all emerge from this process with the same results. Inspiration from a global community of their peers builds self-confidence. Information provided by tools and resources accelerates their transformation into better agents of change. Involvement through opportunities enables their capacity as active citizens.
The Youth Mentoring People
YAY l Youth Assisting Youth is a non-profit charitable organization that provides a peer mentoring service to improve life prospects for youth at risk and newcomer children. YAY matches children aged 6 to 15 with trained and dedicated Youth Volunteer Mnetors aged 16 to 29 who act as positive role models.
Since 1976 YAYl Youth Assisting has helped more than 20,000 young people.
Bilaal Rajan started Making Change Now in 2004 to heighten awareness of children's issues and raise millions of dollars to help kids in need all over the world. His main goal is to have one million young Canadians get involved over the next three years and raise funds for children's programs themselves.
To date, Bilaal and Making Change Now have raised millions of dollars for children's programs throughout the globe.
Last year, he wrote a book named "Making Change: Tips from an Underage Overachiever," which discusses ways in which young people can become more active and make a difference in their communities.
Youth Without Shelter is Etobicoke's singular emergency residence and referral agency serving homeless youth, aged 16-24. At YWS, we are committed to stepping far beyond the basics of food and beds. Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, we are dedicated to providing support programs in a safe environment, with the goal of getting youth off the streets permanently.
L2L is in its eighth year of operation and plans to offer the program in as many of the schools as want it. Currently some 40 schools with 750 tutors are in the program. There are over 500 schools in the system.
As an independent, charitable NFP, L2L has a board of directors of 9 members of the community. It solicits support from foundations, corporations and interested individuals. The current annual budget is $100,000. There are three trainers and an assistant.
What is Student Open Circles?
Student Open Circles creates safe places where a diversity of students:
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-- find support in their life
and spiritual journeys
-- make a difference through
volunteering
-- become catalysts in fostering
healthy community wherever they go
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