Service Week in St. James Town

In the fall of 2020, the team in Toronto’s densely-populated neighbourhood of St. James Town was thinking about how their efforts to draw new youth into the community-building process could continue. Winter was looming, and restrictions around the pandemic were likely to increase.  They were conscious of the need to weave together a pattern of […]

Bringing our Questions to Families: Collective problem-solving around Children’s Classes and Junior Youth Groups

In both the Springdale neighbourhood of Brampton and the St. James Town neighbourhood of Toronto, youth from the local population who have graduated from children’s classes and the junior youth program are now tutoring, animating, teaching children’s classes, and beginning to coordinate activities.  In both neighbourhoods, the expanding nuclei of friends holding activities are turning […]