Impact of Community Partnership and Investment Program ...€¦ · rights in Toronto. The purpose is to maintain a strong community infrastructure for advocacy and community engagement,

Appendix A Impact of CPIP Grants

Grant Program: Community Service Partnerships Program (CSP) Division: Social Development Finance & Administration Purpose: This funding program provides on-going and stable support to Toronto's not-for-profit

community organizations to deliver high quality and relevant services that respond to the changing needs of the community, strengthen the City's well-being, and improve social outcomes for vulnerable, marginalized and high-risk communities.

Target Sector: Not-for-profit organizations Program Type: Partnership Funding

2015 2016 Amount Allocated $15,434,652 $16,097,234 Amount Requested by Applicants $15,434,652 $16,097,234 Number of Organizations Funded 200 200 Average Grant Allocated $77,173 $80,486 Number of Projects Funded 487 504 Number of FTE supported by grant 1,194 1,194 Number of Volunteers 31,072 31,082 Number of Volunteer Hours N/A N/A Number of Individuals served - Total 1,012,642 987,332 Designated Group

Children Yes Yes Youth Yes Yes Seniors Yes Yes Families Yes Yes Newcomers Yes Yes Indigenous Yes Yes Ethno-cultural Yes Yes

Ratio City to Non-City Funding 1:6 1:6

Grant Examples: • Workers' Action Centre

Workers' Action Centre serves low-income workers, in particular women, people of colour, immigrant workers and young workers across Toronto and has program offerings such as telephone information, support and referral, workshops, outreach, strategies formulation to address workplace problems and public speaking at conferences. The Workers' rights-information education & referral is a funded program that works to provide information, education, counselling and referral on workplace issues to low wage workers, in particular women, people of colour, immigrant workers and young workers who face barriers in getting information about rights at work and strategies to realize those rights.

• St. Stephen's Community HouseLocated in ward 20, the organization primarily serves residents with child care, youth and seniors programs,client intervention, refugee and immigrant services, youth employment center, English as a Second Languageand conflict resolution. Funded programs includes: conflict resolution services, neighbourhood support, seniorservices, youth services and core administration. The resolution services program works to help individuals andorganizations to resolve conflicts by offering free, voluntary mediation to individuals, through the use of trainedvolunteer mediators and training in community mediation for individuals and organizations. The neighbourhoodsupport program works to achieve improvement in the quality of life in the community by facilitating communitycapacity building. The Senior Services Program works to reduce isolation and loneliness and improve well-beingfor seniors, primarily those without English language skills from the Mandarin, Cantonese, Portuguese andKorean communities. The Youth Service program works to support healthy development for high-risk pre-teensand teens 12 to 18 years of age in the Kensington, Annex, Chinatown and Alexandra Park communities.

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Grant Program: Access, Equity and Human Rights Investment Funding (AEHR) Division: Social Development Finance & Administration Purpose: This funding works to achieve a positive race relations and climate for human

rights in Toronto. The purpose is to maintain a strong community infrastructure for advocacy and community engagement, public awareness and anti-racism education, and training, capacity building, mentoring, leadership and coalition building. This grant program was incorporated into the new Community Investment Fund in 2017.

Target Sector: Not-for-profit organizations Program Type: Investment Funding

2015 2016 Amount Allocated $894,000 $842,000 Amount Requested by Applicants $3,793,533 $3,470,506 Number of Organizations Funded 24 20 Average Grant Allocated $37,250 $42,100 Number of Projects funded 24 20 Number of FTE supported by grant 17 14 Number of Volunteers 430 497 Number of Volunteer Hours N/A N/A Number of Individuals served - Total 16,276 6,055 Designated Group


Ratio City to Non-City Funding 1:0.4 1:0.8

Grant Examples: • Everdale - Black Creek Community Farm

This project enables the development and implementation of programming in Jane-Finch that provide resources to community members in their efforts to address existing barriers to equity within the food system. Project activities include: the design and implementation of an assessment of Jane-Finch’s relationship to food security, and host community consultations on access and equity in the food system in Jane-Finch. This project helps to build skills and capacity needed to facilitate a robust discussion with the community on issues of access and equity in the food system.

• SKETCH Working Arts

This project supports the leadership capacity of 120 street-involved/homeless LGBTQ youth, especially transgendered youth, aged 16-25 to provide unique arts based equity/sexual diversity training to providers in social service organizations. Project activities include: train-the-trainer sexual diversity education training, and research on systemic barriers and access issues for LGBTQ youth in Toronto. This project helps to enhance program design and organizational policies for the social services sector to increase access and effective engagement of LGBTQ youth.

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Grant Program: Community Safety Investment Funding (CSI) Division: Social Development Finance & Administration Purpose: This funding works to build community capacity for violence prevention and to

increase safety for most volunerable groups in Toronto. The purpose is to increase access to information, skills and supports that prevent violence, increase safety, and to increase capacity to address systemic causes of violence. This grant program was incorporated into the new Community Investment Fund in 2017.

Target Sector: Not-for-profit organizations Program Type: Investment Funding

2015 2016 Amount Allocated $752,000 $678,000 Amount Requested by Applicants $3,754,349 $3,112,212 Number of Organizations Funded 19 17 Average Grant Allocated $39,578 $39,882 Number of Projects funded 19 17 Number of FTE supported by grant 14 11 Number of Volunteers 361 401 Number of Volunteer Hours N/A N/A Number of Individuals served - Total 6,240 44,585 Designated Group


Ratio City to Non-City Funding 1:0.4 1:0.8

Grant Examples: • Nikki Knows

This project works to build the capacity of service providers across sectors/areas (housing, employment, education, etc.) to design, innovate, and deliver ‘re-entry friendly’ reintegration services for youth who were incarcerated. The project also aims to increase the capacity of remanded, provincially-sentenced, and post-release youth to identify, understand, navigate and connect to the range of services and supports potentially available to them to ensure successful community reintegration. The project will conduct research and literature reviews, develop a two-part toolkit that will assist the target population in navigating support systems, and provide a series of workshops to service providers and post-incarcerated youth.

• TAIBU Community Health Centre

This project aims to engage seniors and youth (ages 15-24 years) from diverse visible minority populations and low income backgrounds. Participants will access information and resources focused on personal and community safety. They will also enhance their understanding and develop violence prevention skills that increase safety, identifying safety issues and becoming familiar with existing violence prevention programs, receive training and education to conduct community safety audits, and advocate for resources that address identified gaps.

Access Alliance


Grant Program: Community Recreation Investment Funding (CR) Division: Social Development Finance & Administration Purpose: This funding works work to encourage residents to increase participation in

recreation. The purpose is to engage diverse residents reflective of their neighbourhood, build skills and to use recreation as a tool to develop the physical and social health of Toronto's residents. This grant program was incorporated into the new Community Investment Fund in 2017.

Target Sector: Not-for-profit organizations

Program Type: Investment Funding

2015 2016 Amount Allocated $484,000 $546,000 Amount Requested by Applicants $2,502,711 $3,250,763 Number of Organizations Funded 17 19 Average Grant Allocated $28,471 $28,737 Number of Projects funded 17 19 Number of FTE supported by grant 10 19 Number of Volunteers 555 1,081 Number of Volunteer Hours N/A N/A Number of Individuals served - Total 8,000 12,000 Designated Group


Ratio City to Non-City Funding 1 : 1.07 1:0.4 • Used 1680 hours per year to convert the staff hours to FTE.

Grant Examples: • Ogaden Somali Community Association of Ontario

This project aims to increase the participation of girls and women playing and coaching soccer, specifically those who are not comfortable participating in co-ed soccer leagues because of their cultural backgrounds and traditions. Project activities include selecting and training 10 women through the Toronto Soccer Association's coaching program, organizing and running indoor and outdoor girls' only (6-15 years old) weekly soccer programs lead by trained women soccer coaches, providing participants with the opportunity to play in summer soccer tournaments, and inviting guest speakers once a month to discuss topics such as nutrition and self-esteem with the project participants. Project goals include: developing and enhancing the physical fitness levels of female participants, increasing access for women to develop coaching skills, encouraging girls to learn and play sports, and developing a sustainability plan so the girls' soccer programming can continue after the two year project concludes.

• Women's Health in Women's Hands CHC

The project works in partnership with the Central Neighbourhood House and the Newcomer Women Services to offer the ‘Mind and Body Movement program (MBM)’ that provides participants physical activity classes which include: yoga, zumba and tai chi. These classes will serve over 800 hard to reach participants over two years. The project works to improve mental health, physical health, reduce social isolation and create a sense of belonging amongst participants.

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Grant Program: Community Festival & Special Events Investment Funding Division: Social Development Finance & Administration Purpose: This funding works to encourage residents to participate in their community,

connect with each other, and contribute to a community's strength. The purpose is to support community based groups to undertake community-building activities that showcase local achievements, heritage, culture and/or neighbourhoods. This grant program was incorporated into the new Community Investment Fund in 2017.

Target Applicant: Not-for-profit organizations Program Type: Investment Funding

2015 2016 Amount Allocated $134,000 $136,000 Amount Requested by Applicants $869,693 $1,211,333 Number of Organizations Funded 16 17 Average Grant Allocated $8,375 $8,000 Number of Projects funded 16 17 Number of FTE supported by grant 3 5 Number of Volunteers 154 270 Number of Volunteer Hours N/A N/A Number of Individuals served - Total 77,233 15,000 Designated Group


Ratio City to Non-City Funding 1 : 1.07 1:0.4 • Used 1680 hours per year to convert the staff hours to FTE.

Grant Examples: • The Three Sister's House/ Nswo Nshiimenhig Endaayaat

This event, the Mother Earth Pow Wow in Chester Le Park, celebrates the expansion of an Aboriginal community garden plot in Chester Le Park. The event will incorporate traditional, cultural spiritual food values with mainstream western society values and the need to change and create awareness for the Seven Generations. The event creates an opportunity to share traditional knowledge, awareness, and wisdom from Aboriginal ancestors, and empower people to make healthy, sustainable choices when feeding themselves and their communities.

• Young and Potential Fathers

This event aims to bring together community members from the Weston and Mount-Dennis neighbourhoods to celebrate and honour fathers, fatherhood and families. The event provides a safe space where community members of diverse ages, backgrounds and cultures can come together and participate in a variety of fun, family-friendly and interactive activities, cultural presentations, showcase local talent, as well as provide residents with connection to family resources in their communities. Event activities include: mini parenting workshops, arts and crafts, and performances and presentations from residents.

Toronto East Bike Festival


Grant Program: Identify 'N Impact Investment Funding (INI) Division: Social Development Finance & Administration Purpose: This funding works to help promote youth engagement and community safety. The

purpose is to support youth to turn ideas into action and to motivate and encourage MVP youth (youth most vulnerable to involvement in serious violence and crime to become involved in their communities).

Target Sector: Youth-led not-for-profit groups Program Type: Investment Funding Program

2015 2016 Amount Allocated $100,000 $197,814 Amount Requested by Applicants $150,000 $267,278 Number of Organizations Funded 6 11 Average Grant Allocated $16,667 $16,485 Number of Projects funded 6 11 Number of FTE supported by grant N/A N/A Number of Volunteers N/A N/A Number of Volunteer Hours N/A N/A Number of Individuals served - Total 500 1000 Designated Group

Children Youth 500 1000 Seniors Families Newcomers Indigenous Ethno-cultural

Ratio City to Non-City Funding N/A N/A Grant Examples: • N.Y.C. (Neptune Youth Community)

This project aims to increase the facilitation, leadership, research and management skills among youths most vulnerable to involvement in serious crime and violence (MVP youth). Project activities are in two stages. First, a safe workshop space will be developed, run and facilitated with local youth with the support of community agencies. These workshops will help the youth develop and organize meetings with Toronto Police 32 Division's Community Officers, with the goal to improve relations between youth and police in the Neptune community.

• PAERE

This project aims to empower black artists and highlight black history in Toronto by making it available through a new medium. Through the development of social media tools, participants will gain knowledge of Toronto's little known Black history, including important landmarks which are now gone. Project activities include the launch of the digital arts and history museum, a city-wide amazing race campaign, social media training, and a series of workshops. The digital arts and history museum will be available for use in workshops provided by program partners in vulnerable communities.

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Appendix A 2017 Impact of CPIP Grants

Grant Program: Service Development and Improvement Program (SDIP)

• Emerging Neighbourhoods Fund • Organizational Mentor Pilot Project • Local Champion Pilot Project • Hub Feasibility Studies

Division: Social Development Finance & Administration Purpose: This funding works to provide funding to coalitions and organizations that develop

community capacity, build effective partnerships and deliver programs within Neighbourhood Improvement Areas (NIAs) and Emerging Neighbourhoods across the city. This grant program was incorporated into the new Community Investment Fund in 2017.


2015 2016 Amount Allocated $870,000 $670,000 Amount Requested by Applicants $870,000 $670,000 Number of Organizations Funded 20 12 Average Grant Allocated $43,500 $55,833 Number of Projects funded 20 12 Number of FTE supported by grant N/A 5 Number of Volunteers N/A N/A Number of Volunteer Hours N/A N/A Number of Individuals served - Total N/A 550 Designated Group

Children N/A N/A Youth N/A N/A Seniors N/A N/A Families N/A N/A Newcomers N/A N/A Indigenous N/A N/A Ethno-cultural N/A N/A

Ratio City to Non-City Funding N/A N/A Grant Examples: • Local Champion Pilot Project- East Scarborough Storefront

The Local Champion Pilot Project is designed to build resident leadership and advance the TSNS 2020 (Toronto Strong Neighbourhood 2020) strategy by developing and delivering a "train the Trainer" capacity development certification pilot that targets residents living in the 31 neighbourhood Improvement areas and four neighbourhoods transitioning out of the NIA designation. This pilot project supports local planning tables across the City of Toronto by resourcing local actions and supporting residents to leverage their experience to gain professional certification in the areas of project management and facilitation.

• Organizational Mentor Pilot - Youth Action Network

The Organization Mentorship Fund is dedicated to mentor and support 10 Identify 'N Impact youth-led groups, as they deliver their funded projects across the city. The grantee, Youth Action Network (YAN) acted as a steward of City funds through the Trusteeship of 10 Identify 'N Impact youth-led groups. Specifically, YAN has supported new and emerging grassroots groups through capacity building activities, kept a strategic focus on mentorship and capacity building and delivered the project within the context of what others are doing.

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Impact of CPIP Grants

Grant Program: Community Crisis Response Fund* (CCRF) Division: Social Development Finance & Administration Purpose: This funding works to offer a one-time financial assistance to initiatives or activities

that address a specific critical violent incident/crisis in a community. The purpose is to build community capacity and/or deliver community healing activity in order to improve community safety, well-being and resiliency.


2015 2016 Amount Allocated

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$48,136 Amount Requested by Applicants $59,112 Number of Organizations Funded 11 Average Grant Allocated $3,000 Number of Projects funded 11 Number of FTE supported by grant N/A Number of Volunteers N/A Number of Volunteer Hours N/A Number of Individuals served - Total N/A Designated Group

Children yes Youth Yes Seniors Yes Families Yes Newcomers Yes Indigenous no Ethno-cultural Yes

Ratio City to Non-City Funding N/A *This Pilot funding program was launched in September 2016 with an annual calendar grant cycle. Grant Examples: • Toronto Kiwanis Boys and Girls Club

Following a fatal shooting incident, this community healing project, in two components: the Rivertowne Yoga Program and the YMCA retreat, aims to provide opportunities for community members to connect and provide support to one another, allow the community to acknowledge and reflect on the impact the incident has had or is having on the community, assist community members in identifying community needs and work towards solutions and to provide opportunities to foster hope and direction for the future. Specifically, the Yoga program is designed to address safety by reanimating community spaces, providing for positive interactions between residents and Toronto police, and providing for a neutral opportunity for residents to interact and get to know each other; and the YMCA Retreat is designed to address youth engagement.

• YAAACE

This project “Being Proactive Healing Retreat” is an intervention retreat that aims to increase community resiliency and offer community healing following a fatal violent altercation incident. This intervention project provides a full holistic experience for local youth participants with nutritious food, workshops on trauma, violence prevention, coping mechanisms, substance abuse and misuse, masculinity, culturally specific approaches to mentor-ship and recreational activities to stimulate the venting and processing of vicarious trauma. Project activities reflect evidence based research approaches to youth engagement and build a rapport with a potentially volatile and disengaged cohort of youth who are socially relegated and reduced to the periphery, or the margins of their respective communities. The project is committed to empowering our participants, developing self-confidence, discipline and a healthy self-image.


Grant Program: Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games Grant Funding

• Pan Am/Parapan Am Games Festivals and Events - Local Animation Through Collaboration

• Community Legacy Initiative • Pan Am Path • Game On Toronto

Division: Social Development Finance & Administration Purpose: This funding works to enhance the experience of the TORONTO 2015 Pan/Parapan

American Games for participants and residents, and to advance the City’s economic development and tourism, sport development and healthy living, and resident engagement and cultural celebration goals by supporting community based Games related or inspired activations and projects.

Target Sector: Not-for-profit organizations Program Type: Investment funding

One time multi-year projects (2015 to 2016 disbursements)

Amount Allocated $1,371,353 Amount Requested by Applicants $1,371,353 Number of Organizations Funded 37 Average Grant Allocated $37,064 Number of Projects funded 37 Number of FTE supported by grant 21 Number of Volunteers 878 Number of Volunteer Hours N/A Number of Individuals served - Total 330,063 Designated Group

Children Yes Youth Yes Seniors Yes Families Yes Newcomers Yes Indigenous Yes Ethno-cultural Yes

Ratio City to Non-City Funding 1:0.5 Grant Examples: • Community Legacy Initiatives- FCJ

This project aligns with local school board and municipal policies that aim to grant access to services, including primary and secondary education, to individuals regardless of immigration status, while filling an important educational gap and moving residents closer to equitable participation. The project will involve the development of a York University bridging course to engage youth who have thus far been excluded from post-secondary education. The course will be designed in collaboration with the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University. Outputs will include a syllabus, a teaching plan and preparation of necessary materials. Simultaneously, an institutional change process which will be initiated and implemented within and by York University. The long-term goal of these efforts are to enact standardized policy and practice changes within other Toronto post-secondary educational institutions, the creation of accessible academic pathways, open possibilities for financial assistance and cultivated learning environments conducive to student success in Toronto.

• Game On Toronto! – Silent Voice Canada

This project aims to provide people from the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community, who do not have access local leagues and tournaments, a structured sporting environment. Project activities over two years include: raising awareness by hosting free basketball, volleyball, and ultimate Frisbee clinics for the community with deaf athletes, and enhancing current sporting program to be professionally officiated. Project impact includes increasing the opportunity for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community to engage in mainstream sporting events such as tournaments, leagues and community events.

Toronto Tornadoes Wheelchair Basketball


Grant Program: Toronto Heritage Grant Program (THGP) Division: Heritage Preservation Services, Urban Design, City Planning Purpose: The Toronto Heritage Grant Program is designed to provide an incentive to owners

of properties designated under Parts IV or V of the Ontario Heritage Act The Toronto Heritage Grant Program provides funds of up to 50% of the estimated cost of eligible heritage conservation (some maximum limits apply) to designated heritage properties. Applications to the Toronto Heritage Grant Program are adjudicated by the Toronto Heritage Grant Selection Committee. The Selection Committee is comprised of a member(s) of the Toronto Preservation Board and professionals in the field of heritage conservation or related fields who volunteer their time to evaluate applications and make recommendations for grant awards.

Target Applicant: Property Owners of Residential and not for profit

Program Type: City run program

2015 2016 Amount Allocated $272,146 $393,061 (including reserve

draw) Amount Requested by Applicants $637,467 $1,650,345 Number of Organizations Funded N/A N/A Average Grant Allocated $11,832 $17,089 Number of Projects funded 23 23 Number of FTE supported by grant N/A N/A Number of Volunteers 0 0 Number of Volunteer Hours 0 0 Number of Individuals served - Total Property Owners

23 Property Owners

23 Designated Group


Ratio City to Non-City Funding 1:1 1:1 Grant Examples: • Private Residence, front gable repair

The front gable wood detailing and brick work in this semi-detached Queen Anne style property was experiencing extreme wood rot and immediate attention to the problem was required to help prevent total loss of the gable detailing. With the help of the Heritage Grant Program, and an excellent heritage conservation contractor, the resultant preservation work produced a wonderful result with the woodwork restored to its former glory and after investigation the paint colour was matched to the original.

• Private Residence, removal of paint from brickwork and detailing

This eclectic Victorian Semi-detached home had its front façade painted sometime in the 1960's at the same time its neighbour received the same attention. There are decorative stone features in the front gable under the eave line and as lintels above the windows. The stone work had also received the same paint coverage as the brick. However with help from the Heritage Grant Program and good heritage conservation contractors, the property was transformed to its former glory and has inspired the next door neighbour to follow suit.

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Grant Program: Student Nutrition Program (SNP) Division: Toronto Public Health Purpose: Student Nutrition Program grants help support programs to serve healthier foods

and operate more days a week. Student Nutrition Programs offer a healthy breakfast or morning meal giving students the nutrients and energy they need to be ready to learn and reach their full potential.

Target Applicant: Primarily public schools

Program Type: Partnership

2015 2016 Amount Allocated $8,388,718 $9,992,366 Amount Requested by Applicants $59,242,000 $64,466,877 Number of Organizations Funded 519 566 Average Grant Allocated $11,700 $13,079 Number of Projects funded 717 764 Number of FTE supported by grant 0 0 Number of Volunteers 2,903 Final data not available Number of Volunteer Hours 238,775 Final data not available Number of Individuals served - Total 166,892 180,021 Designated Group

Children Yes Yes Youth Yes Yes Seniors N/A N/A Families N/A N/A Newcomers N/A N/A Indigenous N/A N/A Ethno-cultural N/A N/A

Ratio City to Non-City Funding 1 : 2.5 (39.8% 1) Final data not available

1 Student nutrition programs are funded based upon a shared partnership model between parents/community, municipal, provincial and private sectors. The municipal contribution of a fully funded program was 14.16% of the total program funds. However, since a significant portion of the program was (and continues to be) unfunded, the city to no-city funding ratio is higher than planned. Most programs are not able to raise sufficient funds to run at full capacity and operate in a funding shortfall.

Grant Examples: • "Having a Nutrition Program in schools helps our students to focus because they are no longer hungry. With nutritious

food comes energy. That in turn will give them strength to handle the tasks ahead. I have seen the changes first hand!"

-Student Nutrition Program Coordinator, Elementary School

• "The Student Nutrition Program impacts students and families for sure. Most parents, including myself, worry about our children's nutrition day after day. Since I started volunteering I find that I am able to fix them healthier lunches and my kids have been eating much better and healthier. I think the SNP is one of the best programs being introduced in the school and should be in all schools."

-Parent/Student Nutrition Program Volunteer, Elementary School


Grant Program: StreetARToronto (StART) Division: Transportation Service, Public Realm Section Purpose: As part of the City's Graffiti Management Plan, the StART Partnership program is

dedicated to using street art as a responsive tool to foster walkable streets, community engagement, economic development, inclusion, public space beautification, place-making and civic pride, while reducing graffiti vandalism through continued collaboration with a variety of public and private stakeholders programs.

Target Applicant: Not-for-profit organizations Program Type: Partnership

2015 2016 Amount Allocated $375,000 $375,000 Amount Requested by Applicants $731,053 $595,080 Number of Organizations Funded 19 17 Average Grant Allocated $19,736 $22,111 Number of Projects funded 19 17 Number of FTE supported by grant N/A N/A Number of Volunteers 150 (estimated) 125 (estimated) Number of Volunteer Hours 300 300 Number of Individuals served - Total

Public Art Public Art

Designated Group


Ratio City to Non-City Funding 1:1.25 (80%) 1:1.25 (80%) Grant Examples: • 2015/Mural Routes/Piliriqatigiingniq/Church St north of King

Meaning "to work together to a common goal", this is a public artwork project that facilitated a collaborative outdoor wall painting by four Nunavut youth artists and four Toronto emerging artists. This mural brought Inuit art out of the galleries into the public for the enjoyment of Torontonians and visitors alike and establish the first public, outdoor Inuit art mural in Toronto.

• 2016/Artbarn School/Field House in Eglinton Park

Eglinton Park is an important community hub with a field house that was in need of revitalization. The field house has served as a familiar historical landmark for the past 90 years and was in a state of despair with an old mural that covered in illegal graffiti. Working together with the Artbarn School as well as the local high school (Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School, the organization hired a professional mural artist to mentor the student and produce a new mural for this beloved structure.


Grant Program: The City of Toronto Homeless Initiative Fund (HIF) Division: Shelter, Support and Housing Administration (SSHA) Purpose: The City of Toronto Homeless Initiatives Fund (HIF) is part of the City’s Community

Partnership and Investment Program (CPIP) grants. HIF funds a range of long-term housing services projects by the community service providers to apply the Housing First approach in assisting homeless people or those at-risk of homelessness.

Target Applicant: Not-for-profit organizations Program Type: Homelessness Prevention

2015 2016 Amount Allocated $2,591,251 $2,636,203 Amount Requested by Applicants $2,659,291 Since Oct. 2014 funding is

allocated on a flat rate basis Number of Organizations Funded 13 14 Average Grant Allocated $161,953/project $155,070/project Number of Projects funded 16 17 Number of FTE supported by grant Approx. 9.5 Approx. 10 Number of Volunteers N/A N/A Number of Volunteer Hours N/A N/A Number of Individuals served - Total

2194 1524

Designated Group

Children N/A N/A Youth 125 141 Seniors 159 141 Families 438 260 Newcomers N/A N/A Indigenous N/A N/A Ethno-cultural N/A N/A

Ratio City to Non-City Funding N/A N/A Notes: In 2015, SSHA provided $9,349,576 in funding to sixteen projects. In 2016, SSHA provided $9,472,841 in funding to seventeen projects. The HIF contribution is approximately 28% of the total SSHA funding for these projects. Grant Examples: • Children's Aid Society

The One Stop Housing Worker primarily works with youth who are transitioning out of care from the child welfare system and into independent living. Clients are assisted in searching for safe, affordable vacancies that will meet their individualized needs, as well as providing the opportunity to increase their housing stability by providing appropriate follow-up supports including referrals to PARC for ongoing service and/or access to resources within the community. A key factor to success of the project is the youth resiliency. A large number of youth transitioning out of Child Welfare aspire to have a place to call home. The One Stop Housing Worker meets with clients regularly to conduct an intake and assess their individual needs and assist them to complete housing applications, educate regarding housing and budgeting, complete housing searches and view apartments. The One Stop Housing Worker also advocates for the client by negotiating with landlords, and making referrals for housing stabilization supports.

• COSTI Immigrant Services

Applying the Housing First model of service delivery, COSTI Housing Help Centre provided a full range of housing help supports to clients who were identified as homeless or at risk of homelessness. In the past 12 months, 2,443 unique clients, including Housing First clients, homeless and at-risk of homelessness one-time, drop-in, short term assistance and others, were served through a comprehensive, client-centred, community-based, multi-service housing help and support program within the North York area. These clients received 7,639 services which included: assistance with applications, access to market rent units, housing stabilization, follow-up supports, eviction prevention, landlord-tenant mediation, landlord recruitment as well as Rent Bank, specialized services to clients with complex needs, community capacity building, housing help Drop-In and volunteer mentorship program. Additional onsite supports included: supporting clients with obtaining identification by the PAID Project, Family Violence and Problem Gambling counselling, Life Skills Workshops, settlement services. As well, a number of students from York University and Seneca College completed placements through these programs. The project has also established a partnership with Birkdale Residence and the Seaton House to offer support in housing refugee claimants staying at the Toronto Plaza Hotel at Jane and Wilson. The project has assisted a large number of Syrian refugees.

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