A Community Exploring Faith, Seeking Justice, and Living with Respect in Creation

All mail and deliveries are to go to the office at: 165 Avenue Road, Unit 402, Toronto ON, M5R 3S4

Weekly Sunday Services on Zoom and in person at 10:30am at 729 St. Clair Ave. W

Thanksgiving Appeal 2023

We are delighted to announce that Fred Victor is the recipient of the Thanksgiving offering appeal. In the spring a number of Bloor Street members took part in the Fred Victor Walk and they and Council feel that this organization supports the many criteria of the Thanksgiving offering appeal. 

You can make a financial via cheque to Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor Street West, Toronto M5S 1W3 or e-transfer to [email protected] (memo: Thanksgiving Offering). You can also bring cash to Sunday Worship and indicate on the envelope that it is for the Thanksgiving Offering, or bring money to Susan at the BSUC office. 

“Fred Victor is a social service charitable organization that fosters long-lasting and positive change in the lives of homeless and low-income people living across Toronto. Every day, more than 3,000 people use (our) programs and services. And each person who comes through our doors is experiencing poverty and/or homelessness.” “The many programs and services, located at 25+ different sites across Toronto, help people rebuild their lives by offering: Affordable housing, Transitional housing, Shelters and Emergency Respite Site, Food access services, Job training and counselling, Health information and community services, Community mental health outreach and other Specialized support programs.”

The Fred Victor Mission “is to improve the health, income and housing stability of people experiencing poverty and homelessness. Their vision “is for healthy and thriving communities where every person has a home and access to opportunity.” The organization has been around for more than 128 years.

“Fred Victor advocates for human rights and recognizes the dignity of all people who use, provide, or support our services.” They “value diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, life experiences, perspectives, orientations and abilities.

“Fred Victor creates opportunity for individuals and communities.” They “work from an anti-oppression perspective to reduce systemic discrimination and inequities for people experiencing poverty and homelessness”. They “further promote equity through harm reduction, recovery, and community development approaches to service.”

“Fred Victor values and supports people’s right to self-determination by fostering individual capacity and recognizing individuals’ abilities to make their own choices.”

“Fred Victor uses a harm reduction and community development approach to our services. This means delivering service free of judgement with focus placed on health, wellness and the adoption of practices and policies that work to reduce harm. A harm reduction and community development approach is responsive to the changing needs of our service users and is one that actively seeks to involve in meaningful partnership, our tenants and clients in program development, delivery and evaluation.” For more information about Fred Victor please refer to the website: https://www.fredvictor.org/.

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