BASIC NEEDS SUPPORT
Financial, food, housing, and legal support.
360Kids
Offers programs and services aimed at assisting at-risk and homeless youth.
Blue Door
Provides emergency and collaborative housing, employment, and health programs aimed at addressing the root causes of homelessness.
Canadian Centre for Housing Rights
Work to advance the right to housing.
Canadian Centre for Men and Families
Provides therapy and counselling, peer support, a legal clinic, fathering programs, mentorship and support services for male victims of trauma and violence.
CCSYR
CCSYR’s Settlement Team helps newcomers with housing, healthcare, education, immigration, and access to community and government resources in 40+ languages.
Community Legal Clinic of York Region
Provides free legal advice and representation to low-income residents of York Region, particularly in cases of residential tenancies, social assistance, loss of employment and immigration.
Help a Girl Out
Addresses the issues of period poverty, including access to reusable and disposable period products and menstruation education.
Housing Help Centre
Assists individuals and families to find and maintain affordable, safe housing.
LOFT Community Services
Provides customized support to people facing a combination of mental and physical health challenges, addiction issues, poverty, and/or homelessness.
Richmond Hill Community Food Bank
Provides temporary emergency food assistance to those in need.
United Way of Greater Toronto
Supports people and neighbourhoods impacted by poverty, by working with a network of agencies that function as the GTA’s social safety net.
York Region Food Network
Offers services and programs to support food security, and advocates to reduce food insecurity; providing drop-in meals, community gardens, community kitchens and reduced priced fresh food.