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Yonge Street Mission – Evergreen Centre

Did you know that 4000 of Toronto’s 6000 homeless are between 16 and 24 years of age?

Did you know that help is available to youth up to age 25, and their infants and children?!

Recently Sheila Riggs and Lynda Miller toured the newly opened facility of  the Yonge Street  Mission’s  Evergreen Centre  for Street Youth that is located  on Spadina  near College.  

This is an afternoon drop in centre offering  hot lunch, medical services and much needed programs for street youth.

The new larger facility opened in November and will also provide medical and dental care for inner city adults who are registered in the YSM clinics and classes.

Staff member Darlene Burns, runs the day  nursery, which provides a safe place for babies and toddlers of homeless moms who are registered at the centre for medical or dental appointments, HIV screening, addiction problems, health and employment counselling, parenting classes, help with housing referrals, and assistance making positive steps to move out of poverty. There is access to diapers , baby food and infant formula. It is to this area that LUC designated their 2018 donation.

LUC has supported  the Yonge Street Mission and in particular the Evergreen Centre for many years. It started with the LUC Pathfinders, (under Sheila’s leadership), and continues both through annual giving and recently our youth  group (LUCY) providing Christmas food and gifts to designated families.

No one wants to be on the street. Learning street culture is harsh. The street is a place that is soul destroying.

The Evergreen Centre of the Yonge Street Mission is there to help, and LUC is proud to be a supporter