Youth Care

Our Youth in Care are the future of this community; the Halton CAS and CAFH must act as their parents. We fund a Life Skills program to help connect these youth to their community and better prepare them for adult life. Preparing for issues such as applying to university; budgeting; peer pressure; healthy nutrition; first aid and more; individually or in group settings with volunteers acting as mentors, the youth are encouraged to reach for their dreams and set out on the path to success.  

The success of this program is helping to keep our youth in school and assisting them to overcome their emotional issues in order to graduate from high school, look towards a fresh start and a brighter future. No one needs hope more than our youth, and youth who have experienced abuse and neglect need that hope more than ever. We’ve learned that introducing youth to this program in their early teens helps them through a very vulnerable time in their lives and guides them to find the hope they need.

A $600 donation allows 1 youth to participate in the Life Skills program for a year.

When youth leave care, no financial help is available. We provide personalized Life Start Kits filled with the basic necessities for setting up their own homes. Dishes, cutlery, bed linens, towels, first aid kit, flashlight, cleaning supplies, etc, ingredients for their first meal in their new home and a housewarming gift. 

 A $1,000 donation allows 2 youths to receive Life Start Kits to assist their transition to independent living.