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Free counselling on Wednesdays
Family Service Toronto is offering downtown walk-in sessions for those in need of immediate or urgent counselling one night per week.
The sessions are offered on a first-come first-served basis at 355 Church Street on Wednesdays from 4 to 8 p.m. to individuals, couples and families. All members of the community are welcome with no restrictions based on age or address. Please arrive by 6:45 p.m. at the latest.
No appointment or referral is required. Counselling is offered in English. Some of our counsellors are fluent in other languages (French, Mandarin, Farsi, Spanish and possibly other languages; to confirm call 416-595-9618).
Further steps needed to reduce child poverty
The 2013 Ontario budget takes strong steps forward in some areas but does not fully increase the Ontario Child Benefit, the cornerstone of Ontario’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, says Ontario Campaign 2000. Read the full release.
383,000 children in Ontario still live in poverty
Ontario Campaign 2000 released its 2012 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Ontario. The report card, Strengthening Families for Ontario’s Future, calls on Ontario’s minority government to reduce child and family poverty in the 2013 Budget. It also offers policy recommendations to all political parties to redress the persistence of child poverty in Ontario. Read the report and press release.
Spring sessions offer help for elderly care
Check out the Spring schedule for workshops, groups and education sessions offered by our Seniors and Caregivers Support Services program.
Editorial shows support for native issues
Read the opinion editorial signed by FST's Social Reform Director Laurel Rothman in the Feb. 5 edition of the Toronto Star. It argues that anti-poverty and human rights groups share Idle No More's alarm about the impact of federal legislation that threatens the environment and fails to comply with the government's legal duty to consult with aboriginal peoples.
Take our survey on caregiver services
Family Service Toronto is researching the potential to provide support services to people who are informal or unpaid caregivers of a senior or disabled family member. If you are currently or have recently been in this caregiving role please take our survey.
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
