Rexdale Community Hub
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Mission Statement
Our Vision: A healthy and sustainable community where residents are empowered and engaged. Our Mission: Rexdale Community Hub's mission is to provide accessible, welcoming space with collaborative, integrated services and programs to enrich every aspect of the community's life.
About This Cause
Rexdale Community Hub (RCH) is one of seven community hubs established as part of United Way Toronto’s Building Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy (BSNS). These hubs, all located in communities identified as having priority needs, share much in common. Developing effective solutions to the complex issues plaguing high need communities depends on collectively engaging and mobilizing the community and its resources. The hubs play an important role in this effort by creating opportunities for engagement, and equipping local residents and stakeholders with the supports and services necessary to restore the health of the community. RCH provides a safe and organized shared space (77,900 sq.ft.) for organizations (the “tenant agencies”) to provide a range of health and social services through the tenant agencies that specifically respond to the needs identified by residents of Rexdale, a socio-economically deprived community of North Etobicoke, including: Family resource programs such as parenting, playgroups, parent relief/childminding, and parent drop-in; Group programs for children and youth including recreation, social, educational, and creative arts programs; Primary care (e.g., physician, nurses, chiropody, physiotherapy, dental), and health promotion (e.g., diabetes education ), congregate dining and healthy cooking; Settlement services and programming targeting newcomers such as information/referral, system navigation, assistance with forms completion, citizenship classes, language instruction, seniors programs; Resident leadership, civic engagement , public legal education; Legal services including landlord and tenant, income maintenance, worker’s compensation, employment insurance, criminal injuries compensation, system navigation and referrals; Housing support such as eviction prevention; Career Planning and Job Search coaching support including: resume and cover letter writing, interview skills, labour market information, workshops and community agency presentations, as well as resources to support career planning such as information of job fairs, training opportunities, community events and computer/internet access. Currently, the tenant agencies that are providing health and social services within the RCH’s shared space are: Albion Neighbourhood Services, Delta Family Resource Centre, Rexdale Community Health Centre, Rexdale Community Legal Clinic, Rexdale Women’s Centre, and Toronto Employment & Social Services. RCH also provides some of its own charitable activities in addition to the programs and services being run by the tenant agencies such as Coordination of Service and Program delivery, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Club to promote STEM education among youth, and offers a multi-purpose community space to residents, emerging grassroots organizations/groups such as basketball leagues, soccer clubs, yoga, dance, sewing and homework clubs etc. Community/common space allows these groups to plan and deliver community engagement activities which increase their social, recreational and civic participation in the community.