Hi:

 

The Toronto Christian Resource Centre is a community agency in Regent Park serving low income marginally housed people and shelter residents. It operates three social purpose enterprises:

 

·         Asset Mapping Research Project recruits, hires, trains and supports marginally housed people to share their assets (skills, talents, gifts, abilities, interests, experiences, knowledge and dreams) and in the process work on contracts conducting individual and community mapping, developing detailed questionnaires (Capacity Inventory), conducting quality one to one interviews with other low / no income service users, and entering and analysing data;

• Self-Reliance Worker’s Co-op is a self-help group of drop-in users and rooming house residents who perform short notice odd-jobs and part-time work for individuals, organizations, institutions, businesses and BIAs;
• Sunshine Multicultural Catering is comprised of a group of local residents from all over the world, specializing in making dishes from their home country for meetings and all kinds of events;

 

 

All of these ventures do receive Staff support. For more information about these and other programs at the CRC please contact:

 

 

Adonica Huggins

Asset Mapping Project Co-ordinator

(416) 363-4234 ext. 233

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or

 

Carmel Hili

Program Manager

(416) 363-4234 ext. 223

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Toronto Christian Resource Centre

40 Oak Street

Toronto, Ontario

M5A 2C6

www.tcrc.ca

 

 

Hello

I am looking for information (examples, case studies, environmental scans, etc) where homeless shelters or agencies working with the homeless have developed social enterprises or businesses with the homeless where the homeless help to run it and the revenues go back to support them.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Steve Pedersen, MPH