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July 8, 2025

Training Services – Update Bulletin

The Street Haven Training Services provides free educational, life skills and pre-employment services for women. We deliver programming that is flexible and women-centered. We offer unique programs

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July 8, 2025

Word On The Street – December 2024

Street Haven’s Internal Quarterly Newsletter I’m delighted to be publishing our first internal newsletter, that is aimed at providing all staA & volunteers with regular news and updates from across...

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Street Haven at the Crossroads5 hours ago
Happy Canada Day! 🍁Street Haven’s head office is closed today but our shelter and addictions and recovery homes are open 24/7 365 days a year as always.

Here's something we didn't know: Street Haven opened our doors in 1965, the same year Canada's maple leaf flag was made official. That flag was first sewn together by a 20-year-old woman named Joan O'Malley, who packed up her Singer sewing machine one November evening and just got it done. Her sewing machine is now a national historic artifact.

For some of our staff and clients, today is their very first Canada Day. We love to see them celebrate their new home as well.

And finally, long before there was a Canada Day, long before there was a Canada, this land had its own name: Turtle Island. There was no 'flag' back then to share with you; it was stories, imagery, governance, and distinct Indigenous nations. We think that is so important to remember. Everyone belongs in Canada.

Street Haven has always been about making sure every woman has a place to belong. Today and every day. 💛

#StreetHaven #CanadaDay #Toronto #WomenSupportingWomen #TruthAndReconciliation #TurtleIsland
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Street Haven at the Crossroads24 hours ago
We have the BEST donors! 💛

Christina emailed us out of the blue with an offer: furniture and kitchen utensils she no longer needed.

She's a recent Master of Nursing graduate, heading back to BC after finishing her studies in Toronto. Before she left, she wanted to make sure her belongings went to someone who really needed them.

So, she reached out to us. Not only are her items going to our shelters, but we also connected her with a Pathways to Independence client, who has recently transitioned out of our services into housing of her own. Furniture and kitchen basics are exactly what's needed to make her new place feel like home.

Christina and her friends even helped our facilities team load everything into the van themselves!

It's a small gesture with a big ripple effect, and it's a reminder that community support doesn't always look like a big donation. Sometimes it's a grad student packing up her apartment and thinking of someone else first.

Thank you, Christina. We're lucky to have donors like you in our corner. ✨

#StreetHaven #CommunitySupport #PathwaysToIndependence #Toronto #NonprofitWork
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Street Haven at the Crossroads2 days ago
Pride Toronto 2026 — we showed UP. 🏳️‍🌈✨

We had our table on Church Street (yes, there was a prize wheel, and yes, people were very into it), we chatted with hundreds of people from our community, we met donors and — very importantly — their dogs 🐾, and then we hit the streets and marched.

And what a march!

We brought the music. We brought the party. We brought the love. If people didn't know Street Haven before, they know us know: we’re one part advocacy, one part community, and one part FUN.

Our founder, the late Peggy Walpole started Street Haven on one simple belief: take in women with no judgment, regardless of who they are or who they love. Looking around at all those faces this weekend, we know she'd be proud of us.

A massive thank you to the staff, volunteers, and clients who joined us this weekend. To everyone who cheered us on and waved, who stopped to have a chat at our booth, thank you for your support.

💙 See you next year.

#TorontoPride #Pride2026 #StreetHaven #WomensServices #2SLGBTQ #LoveisLove #Community
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Street Haven at the Crossroads2 days ago
Toronto Pride 2026 — we showed UP. 🏳️‍🌈✨

Prize wheel on Church Street? Yes! Hundreds of conversations with community members (and their dogs 🐾)? Even better. Marching in the parade with the music, the party, and ALL the love? Best. Weekend. Ever!

If you didn’t know Street Haven before, you know us now: one part advocacy, one part community, one part FUN.

Our founder Peggy Walpole started this place on one belief: take in women with no judgment, regardless of who they are or who they love. We think she’d be proud. 🏳️‍🌈

Thank you to every staff member, volunteer, client, and community member who came out this weekend. 💙 See you next year.

#TorontoPride #Pride2026 #StreetHaven #WomensServices #2SLGBTQ LoveIsLove
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Street Haven at the Crossroads5 days ago
This Pride, we're celebrating 🏳️‍🌈 And we're telling the truth.

Thousands of 2SLGBTQIA+ people in Toronto still don't have a safe place to land. And that's something we can't scroll past.

Street Haven was founded in 1965: the same year homosexuality was still a criminal offence in Canada. For women rejected by their families because of who they loved, we were there. We still are.

In our shelters, our mental health and addictions programs, our supportive housing, and our employment programs, every door is open. Every service is inclusive. No exceptions, no judgment. 💛

This Pride, go beyond the parade.

Advocate. Donate. Demand better.

Because Pride isn't just a celebration, it's a call to action.

#StreetHaven #TorontoPride #Pride2026 #2SLGBTQIA #PrideWithPurpose #Toronto #SafeSpace
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Street Haven at the Crossroads1 week ago
Meet Kim, Fatima, Dera, and Jen; four members of our Housing Outreach Team 🏠

Ask any of them what a typical day looks like, and you’ll get the same answer. There isn't one.

One hour you're helping a client track down the documents she needs to apply for housing. The next you're deescalating a crisis. Then you're on the bus helping someone get their ID. Then back to emails and landlord follow-ups.

And underneath all of it: the reality that people on Ontario Works receive just $390/month toward housing. That the waitlists are long. That landlord discrimination is real. That the barriers stacked against the women they support are significant, but this team shows up anyway.

Fatima puts it like this: her work is about helping people "rescue the human soul and bring it to life."

Dera says she sees herself in the women she supports and stays because she knows what it means to need someone in your corner.

Kim says housing isn't just a roof. It's the foundation for everything else.

That's what this team carries with them every single day. We're so grateful they do. 💙

#StreetHaven #HousingOutreach #HousingFirst #WomenSupportingWomen #EndHomelessness #Toronto #Nonprofit
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