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The purpose of Youth Impact Jeunesse Inc. is to provide care and guidance to children and youth between the ages of 5 and 24, with social, emotional, and behavioral problems. The goal is to help youth and/or their families reduce or eliminate the conditions that have acted as obstacles to their success. Youth Impact Jeunesse Inc. offers services within an integrated, multi-component continuum of care. These include community services, in-home family support, highly structured residential treatment programs, and less structured transitional housing. Youth Impact Jeunesse Inc. is the agency of choice for delivery of many programs and services mandated by various government authorities with responsibilities for at-risk youth. We also initiate programs for community outreach and education in the Greater Moncton Area

The Provincial Office of YWAM Alberta oversees the ministry activities of our YWAM locations in Alberta. These locations include three training centres where Canadian and International youth receive Biblical instruction in missions and take that cross culturally on 2-3 month field assignments. There is also mission mobilization work in Edmonton and Calgary and a church planting effort among the local Vietnamese people.

We are committed to: recognizing the unique spirit of each individual; treating all individuals with dignity and respect; respecting the individual's right of choice; supporting the principle that all individuals are entitled to reasonable risks inherent in personal growth; recognizing an individual's strengths and responding to their needs; and fostering an environment that encourages all individuals associated with Y's Owl Maclure to strive for excellence.

YWTHS is a registered not-for-profit with charitable status. We operate Kaushee’s Place, a 15 bed emergency shelter for women (and their children) who have experienced violence. In addition, Kaushee’s Place contains 5 apartment units for longer-term second-stage housing. We are in the process of building an additional 10-unit Second Stage Housing complex, Betty’s Haven, which will open in fall 2013. Our core services are: • Shelter: safe, appropriate and accessible short and long term shelter for women and their children; • Advocacy: individual advocacy, community advocacy, support for women and children to develop self-advocacy skills; • Support: support the self determination of women through strategizing, safety planning, responding to in-person and crisis line requests; • Expertise: contribute expertise to community action agendas and agencies • Collaboration: communicate and work with other agencies and community partners

YWCA Toronto is one of the oldest women’s voluntary associations in Canada, operating for over 130 years. YWCA Toronto is a turning point for women and girls—providing opportunities and services for their growth, development and support. We work towards constructive social change, especially with regard to the issue of violence against women.

Halifax YWCA is a turning point for women. We have served women, young women, and families since 1874. Today the Halifax YWCA provides the following core services: Child Care & Early Learning: Two full service licensed childcare programs and Family Home Day Care (Private family day care providers, fully licensed and supported by YWCA Halifax). Housing - WISH: Women in Supported Housing. 24 units of supported housing for formerly homeless women, HERizons affordable supportive housing for single mothers attending university and SHYM Supportive Housing for Young Mothers. Youth Development - Leadership development programs for young women in 3 locations The Halifax YWCA believes in the power of women to achieve, and a world where women are equal participants and designers of their community, country and world.

Original and contemporary, disconcerting virtuoso of satire and irony, Dulcinea propels her audience to a playful universe, encouraging them to live better with its vulnerability and make up with the absurd part of life. The company has produced 7 shows, toured over 5 continents in English, French, Spanish, Italian and partially in Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese.

Abbeyfield is a retirement home with a difference – an affordable small-scale, family-style home with a live-in House Coordinator, providing full room and board for seniors who no longer want to live alone but do want to remain as independent as possible. It provides a friendly, supportive and homey atmosphere, with a balance between independence and security, privacy and companionship. Support from the community is vital to the continuing existence of the Abbeyfield home. Your donation makes a huge difference.

Every day, the dining hall is open to all. To the youth and women, we furnish references to other available resource centres. Accueil Bonneau offers a range of services to adult men, such as counseling, social and psychological care and housing. Accueil Bonneau has 30 employees and 250 voluntary workers.

The Actors' Fund of Canada is a registered charity that provides short-term financial aid to entertainment industry professionals working in theatre, film & TV, music and dance. Performers, creators, technical staff and other production team members can apply for help from the Fund which delivered over $460,000 in rent payments, grocery money, utility payments and other basic living expenses to clients in the last 12 months and over $4.5 million in the last 10 years. The Actors' Fund receives no government funding and is wholly sustained by support from individuals and entertainment industry organizations.

For over 30 years, the Adoptive Families Association of BC has promoted adoption and provided support and education to both children and families. Our province-wide family services help people considering adoption, those who have already adopted, and children and teens who are considering adoption. We are dedicated to finding a family for every child.

ARCH Disability Law Centre, is a community legal clinic with a volunteer board of directors, at least 50% of which are people with disabilities, and 11 paid staff. While based in Toronto, ARCH has an Ontario-wide mandate. In recognising the dignity and worth of people with disabilities, ARCH promotes the realisation of equal opportunities by people with disabilities, as well as their full participation in our society on individual and systemic bases. ARCH’s main activities include direct legal representation in Board-approved priority areas of law, test case litigation, summary advice and referral, public legal education and law reform. Lawyers who specialize in areas of law as they relate to disability provide free, confidential, legal advice and representation or referral to other sources of assistance.