This resource is helpful as it allows those of specific needs get the proper help they need. Such as if one needed counselling, legal assistance, and or medical assistance, this program is able to help one get in contact with people that can help them, so they can have to opportunity to get the proper help they need. 

Here is the link to the website: https://www.homelesshub.ca/about-homelessness/service-provision/community-services

 

The Canadian Women Foundation is a group of a national community leaders, issue experts, advocates, and donors that is raising awareness about gender equality. They have fund life-changing economic development programs designed especially for women. Such programs as learning a skilled trade, starting a small business, or getting work experience. 

This agency is important for CYC in their practice because more than 1.9 million women in Canada live on a low income. Certain groups of women are more likely to live on a low income than others. Helping women who live on a low income also helps their children, putting an end to a generational cycle of poverty. Poverty costs taxpayers and the government billions of dollars each year. This agency helps reduces poverty and empowers families.

Their website is: https://www.canadianwomen.org/about-us  

This is a wonderful resource to use for youth and families that need support around poverty.
Here is the link to the website for more info: http://tropicanacommunity.org/

     ACTO is a non-governmental advocacy organization. This organization supports for Ontario residents who live in poverty, so it can able to provide the shelters for them which helps them afford and live comfortably in Toronto. This organization is part of a legal clinic that focuses on the families who have housing issues due to poverty such as being homeless or struggling to find the housing at a good price. ACTO also provides legal and law reform work, so you can review many documents and information about the laws and human rights of housing. 

     This resource is helpful for families who are living in poverty. This website can find and help some people the shelters without feeling stressed if they will be homeless for a long time. It offers the "Tenant Duty Counsel Program (TDCP) which provides advice, assistance and resources for tenants who have some problems with their Landlord. It also sets the "Low-Income Energy Network (LIEN), so this program can help low-income Ontarians to manage their financials for paying electricity, natural gas, and other utility costs in their shelters. There already have some questions and answers for tenants who do not know how to buy proper shelter, to find the answers such as bringing the pet in the apartment, to learn paying the rent, to do the steps of moving out and to fight back for getting the human rights to housing. There have some blogs to the readers to learn something or find the answers such as the tips before signing a rental housing lease for the students. This resource can benefit some families that they can gain the knowledge of their human rights to housing in Toronto. 

Here is a link to the website: https://www.acto.ca/