Adult

Toronto City Mission’s women’s programs have been designed to provide support, encouragement, mentoring and hope to inner-city women.  In Malvern women are given opportunities to participate in Conversational English Classes and a Cooking Group.  In St. James Town, a group of women meet together regularily for Bible study.  However, what makes the programs truly effective is the deep relationship that are built between the women and the Community Workers and volunteers.  The result of these relationships is that women become empowered to reach out and make a difference in their communities.

Toronto City Mission partners with The Sprott Foundation to provide Role Model Moms for the Jane-Finch Community.  The main goal of the Role Model Moms program is to equip single moms, who are at least 18 years old and have not completed their high school education, with the academic knowledge, confidence, and life skills necessary to successfully pass the high school equivalency exam regulated by the government of Ontario. It is our hope that by attaining a high school equivalency diploma, moms will have improved opportunities of employment that will better meet their family’s needs. The program is also designed to develop the confidence of each participant as well as their life skills (for example: time management, daily disciplines, and communication) through coaching and support. Increased capacity in these areas would translate into increased capabilities to negotiate the demands of raising a family.

The men’s basketball program is for fathers who live in St. James Town and have kids in our programs. The program gives these men a stress-free environment to come together and have fellowship while “playing some ball”. It gives us the opportunity to minister and build relationships with the parents of the children we serve. We are heading into our 3rd year of the program and our numbers have tripled since the beginning!