About Us
Our mission
To provide safe, supportive places where children and youth can experience new opportunities, overcome barriers, build positive relationships, and develop confidence and skills for life.
Our vision
All children and youth discover and achieve their dreams and grow up to be healthy, successful, and active participants in society.
We are a satellile community of
BGC ST. ALBAN'S CLUB
For full organization information such as history, funders, employment, volunteering and our other communities, please visit the BGC St. Alban's website.
History
In 2011, the Ministry of Health Promotion (now managed by MHSTCI) launched funding to enhance after school programs in at risk communities. The Lawrence Heights community was one of the communities recommended to St. Alban’s Boys and Girls Club in 2006 by the United Way. Based on the success of the Club's satellite development model, St. Alban's received the funding and funding, and launched two after school programs in the Lawrence Heights community in 2011.
Today, BGC Lawrence Heights Club runs two after school programs at Baycrest and Fairbank schools.
We respectfully acknowledge Toronto is on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.
