Community Development
Creating positive change in
Toronto's Downtown East
About
We collaborate with, support, and equip residents, community agencies, grass-roots groups, and faith communities to strengthen neighbourhoods. Together, we build resident-led solutions to create positive change in Regent Park and across Toronto.
Contact
310 Gerrard St E, Toronto
Call us at 416-929-9614 or email info@ysm.ca to get involved in a community initiative.
Our team approach is:
Collaborative
We work with individuals, neighbourhood residents, faith communities and other organizations, combining our resources and strengths to create long-lasting positive change in Neighbourhood Improvement Areas.
Comprehensive
We support diverse resident and multi-partner groups focused on creating solutions to community-identified issues that affect their well-being such as social inclusion and cohesion, safety, wealth creation, and access to resources through strategic partnerships and capacity building.
Cohesive
We work from a holistic strategy to bring groups of people together in order to build stronger networks, initiatives and projects and, ultimately, create sustainable change.
Asset based community development
Excel model
We Engage with community members and partners to build and establish meaningful relationships.
We create opportunities to Convene with diverse groups and community members who share a common vision.
We Launch independent and sustainable projects to continue work that leads to transformative change in their communities.
Then Explore opportunities of collaboration to support initiatives and ideas building stronger communities.
We Equip the community to build on existing skills and assets and help them gain access to external resources.
Current initiatives & collaboratives
We believe in the power of collaboration to create lasting change. Our team works closely with individuals, residents, youth, organizations, grassroots groups and faith communities to address challenges in Neighbourhood Improvement Areas (NIA) and Emerging Neighbourhoods.
Woman’s Development Network
The Woman’s Development Network (WDN) is a community-led group focused on building peer support, skill development, and social enterprise opportunities for women in the community.
Access to recreation
Our community advocacy initiatives ensure all families in Regent Park have equitable access to recreational spaces.
Social Development Plan
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Regent Park Executive Director Network
Works in collaboration with local not-for-profit stakeholders to develop services for an evolving neighbourhood transformation strategy.
Community civic engagement collaborative
Creating collaborative non-partisan civic engagement opportunities with and for the community.
CBOWG
The Community Benefits Oversight Working Group (CBOWG) is a multi-partner group made up of resident leaders, grassroots groups, agencies, developers and City of Toronto staff who aim to engage with community to ensure there is an accurate reflection of Regent Park residents’ needs in the distribution of community benefit funds.