by YWS | Dec 20, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
OPINION: Often-hidden population of homeless youth being left behind About 40,000 youth between 13 and 24 are homeless in Canada Author of the article: Steve Doherty, YWS Executive Director Toronto Sun Published Dec 14, 2023 The kind of encampments once only seen in...
by YWS | Oct 27, 2023 | Community Commitment, Latest Post
Here at YWS, we have many ways for our community to get involved. From volunteering on-site at the shelter, to meal drop-offs and off-site kit building, we work with our community as best we can to help support the youth who call YWS home. This blog post was written...
by YWS | Oct 3, 2023 | YWS Newsletters
FALL NEWSLETTER Download your Summer Newsletter for updates on our current programming and events. This season’s issue includes: 2022-2023 Annual Report Welcome to #TeamYWS, newest hires to our team A look at our new front entrance stairway Back-to-school...
by YWS | Sep 12, 2023 | News
Written by: Jasmeet Randhawa of the Young Philosophers Society Children huddled in a cold, decaying, bunker-esqe room, holding out a bowl as they line up for porridge, huddled in masses and thoroughly malnourished, dying of either scarlet fever, or tuberculosis-a...
by YWS | Aug 1, 2023 | Latest Post
August 1st marks Emancipation Day. Many Canadians are unaware of our history of the enslavement of Black and Indigenous Peoples. This day marks a time to learn about a dark part of our history of enslavement in Canada. Between the mid-17th century and 1834, it was...
