What gets kids thinking as entrepreneurs and diving enthusiastically into learning about money management? A challenge, in January, to compete in YSM’s first-ever Fish Tank, a business case competition. Over three days, sixty students between the ages of 8 and 13 participated in Junior Achievement’s “More than Money” program led […]
YSM’s Computer Literacy Centre: A life-giving place
Yathu’s story Eighteen years ago, when Yathu was in seventh grade, his mom told him she’d signed him up for a computer club at YSM twice a week after school. Yathu’s parents had come to Canada as part of a wave of immigrants fleeing civil war in Sri Lanka in […]
Strengthening Family Bonds
Since January, YSM’s Cornerstone Family Services has been piloting an innovative program with the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CAST) to provide an onsite reunion space where our staff supervises visits between Children’s Aid Society involved children and their parents. This new program is part of YSM’s Cornerstone Partnership, a […]
Engaging Families and Youth in Ending Poverty in Toronto
This fall, YSM will be introducing a new youth and family engagement program, inspired by the experience of long-standing YSM advocate and supporter, John Fenton. While just 11 years old, John was brought to YSM by his father, an experience he remembers vividly, one after which John vowed to commit […]