Community Issues
Community Issues
Different social, economic and political upheavals internationally, nationally and regionally have a ripple effect on our neighbourhoods. The ripple effects of those changes often hit our neighbourhoods among the first and the hardest in Canada.
Parts of our neighbourhoods are home to thousands of immigrants who are trying to rebuild their lives.
Parts of our neighbourhood are home to low-income families struggling to get ahead with precarious and inadequate employment.
Many issues and many strengths within neighbourhoods are visible while others are harder to see. St. Christopher House has chosen 2 community priorities as our current House-wide focus:
1) anti-poverty/pathways to opportunity
2) social integration and inclusion
These are issues that are common to all our programs, across age groups in our community,. These are issues in which we try to engage our participants, friends and neighbours to work together to understand what is happening and how we can make a positive impact.
At St. Christopher House, community development is this process of engaging people in problem-solving by sharing our knowledge, skills and relationships.
There are many other community issues in which St. Christopher House programs are involved, usually in partnership with other community groups. You can learn more about them by visiting the program rooms.
The catchment area is further subdivided into a number of smaller neighbourhoods listed below.
80 - Little Italy
81 - Trinity-Bellwoods
82 - Niagara
83 - Dufferin Grove
84 - Little Portugal
85 - South Parkdale
86 - Roncesvalles
What are some of the Community Strengths?
St. Christopher House neighbourhoods have always been dynamic places to live. Located close to the downtown core of Toronto, our neighbourhoods have provided housing, jobs, services and cultural spaces for numerous immigrant communities, poor and working class families, who have or still call our neighbourhoods “home”. Our community is also home to many professionals, artists, entrepreneurs and others who also are attracted to the “richness” of diverse community life as reflected by its peoples and geographical advantages.
St. Christopher House (SCH) has a number of locations in the west end of downtown Toronto ( scroll over map below to see addresses). The catchment area for SCH is bounded to the north by Bloor Street West, to the east by Roncesvalles Avenue, to the south by Lakeshore Boulevard and to the west by Bathurst Street.
