TABLE OF CONTENT
- Chairman's Remarks
- Executive Director's Report
- Grants Approved In 1996
- Continuing Projects 1996
- Grant Summary 1996
CURRENT GRANTS
GRANTS APPROVED IN 1996
YEAR AND COST
Toronto School of Theology
This grant to the Continuing Education Division of the Toronto School of Theology supports five specific professional development opportunities (seminar and program based) for clergy and lay counsellors. Access is province wide in Ontario.
Dufferin Mall Youth Services
Grant assists in the provision of storefront mall services to youth between the ages of 12-24 years. Participants receive counselling, attend support groups, participate in job training initiatives and volunteer as members of the Youth Council.
Sudbury YMCA - Career Counselling Program for Learning Disabled Individuals
This grant is to support the implementation of a career counselling program for learning disabled youth that has been designed by a learning disabled individual. Designing the program model was part of thesis work to obtain a Masters in Education. Although it has been suggested that the program be implemented as a pilot project in Toronto, the model's creator chose to have the program established in Sudbury where no services for young people with learning disabilities exist. The program would provide the full model of service delivery to 40 youth in the first year.
College - University Consortium Council
Four partners; Conestoga College, University of Guelph, University of Waterloo and Wilfred Laurier University are working together to convert counselling curriculum to distance format. The curriculum is part of a joint degree program and all partners are contributing significant time and resources to make it happen.
Evangel Hall
This grant ensures access to the services of a counsellor in the Evening Teen Drop-In available to youth in crisis and at risk. Approximately 50 teens are provided a safe, fun and encouraging place each day between 4:30 pm. and 8:30 pm.
NATCON Student Participation
Having raised several thousand dollars towards the cost of sending 30-35 students of the Sir Sanford Fleming College Employment Counsellor Program to NATCON 97, the first year Employment Counsellor Program students received a matching contribution from the Counselling Foundation of Canada.
CBC Television. Street Cents
Financial support was provided to develop and produce a specific episode of Street Cents on Volunteerism. This consumer/lifestyle television program is targeted at young Canadians. The program is telecast on CBC, local Cable Channels and also distributed for in classroom use. The Foundation also distributed twenty-five copies to community agencies
Central Toronto Youth Services
Two part-time counsellors (1 male, 1 female) provide one-on-one and group counselling to young gay and lesbian youth. Publicly funded services are not available in Ontario to those 18-29 years of age. A large percentage of these young people cannot access counselling services and are lost between the definition of children's services and adult services.
Employment and Vocational Counselling in Scarborough, Toronto and York Region
A joint project by three Metropolitan Toronto agencies; ACCES, Costi and Skills for Change, to build on their similarities and their unique differences for the purpose of working towards a more coordinated delivery of career counselling services to newcomers in Metropolitan Toronto.
Victoria University - Vic Reach Program
This three year old mentoring program brings students in specifically targeted schools in contact with role models who can inspire them to continue their education beyond a minimal level.
YWCA of Metro Toronto
Grant monies support the piloting of a new career assessment and planning program which will serve over 700 women annually. The program builds on the YWCA's tradition of developing assessment and counselling programs which lead to employment. The program is designed to be self-financing by the end of 1999.
Youth Employment Assistance Headquarters Inc.
Support for an innovative approach to providing employment counselling in this time of government restraint. Through the development of a hybrid service combining not-for-profit with revenue generating capabilities, the agency will provide 200 assessments, secure 150 employment positions, conduct labour adjustment activities and prepare a "how to" session to share the successes and failures with other not-for-profit and educational institutions at NATCON.
Frontier College - Mentor Program
The Foundation's grant supported the expansion of a highly successful mentoring program into additional communities including the incorporation of a career counselling component. The program currently matches 200 young people with 200 mentors. This has proven to be an effective and cost efficient way for community volunteers to assist youth who are having difficulties and need help in setting and achieving educational, personal, or professional goals.
YES Toronto
Grant to develop, coordinate and deliver the project "Somebody Cares". This program is designed for those youth who need particular assistance due to the unstable living conditions (e.g. hostels, homeless, shelters) and/or economic instability (panhandlers, welfare etc.)
Jimmy Sandy Memorial School
At risk students and community members embarked on a 10 day physical journey to duplicate a historical journey of the past. Using elders as guides and acquiring awareness of their history has been demonstrated to be a cultural and spiritual aid to these students many of whom experience drug and alcohol abuse and drop out of school.
York University - Learning Disabilities Program
Grant to update and reprint 3000 copies of the English version of Secrets to Success: Profiles of University Graduates with Learning Disabilities, and to provide a French edition and an audio cassette version.
