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LOFT Community Services

 

205 Richmond Street West, Suite 301
Toronto, ON   M5V 1V3
Telephone: 416.979.1994
Facsimile: 416.979.3028
Email:  tmccullum@loftcs.org
Web Site: www.loftcs.org
Terry McCullum, CEO
Dennis Starzynski, Board Chair
 

 


LOFT Community Services provides supportive housing for 60 transitional age youth in ten residential sites in Toronto plus a major outreach/support service to approx 800 street youth involved in the sex trade.  Of its residences for youth, three are high support (24 hour staffed), six receive outside staff support and one is operated by the residents themselves.   Loft provides services to male, female and transgendered youth.

 Loft operates four different youth programs, two of which are funded and licensed under the Child and Family Services Act (Etobicoke Group Residence and Beverley Lodge). Beverley Lodge and the Etobicoke Group Residence are 24-hour, high-support group homes for youth 14 to 18 years-of-age.

Ingles House is a 24-hour supportive residence for young women 18 to 26 who are dealing with serious substance abuse issues, which is based on an abstinence model.

 Street Outreach Services (S.O.S.) serves youth involved in prostitution – females, males and transgendered, approximately 15 to 24 years old. It provides street outreach services six evenings a week, an office drop-in, an employment program, health services, housing services, HIV/AIDS services, a small residence, counselling, legal services, needle exchange and crack pipe distribution, clothing, food and shower facilities.

 In total, LOFT Community Services operates fifteen different programs, both in Toronto and York Region serving over 3000 youth, adults and seniors. It presently has 50 residential sites providing a wide range of supportive housing. These include apartment buildings, rooming and boarding houses, group homes and simple shared houses on side streets. LOFT also operates a large community support service for 700 people living independently in the community, an outreach service for street youth involved in prostitution in Toronto, and a homeless outreach van in York Region.

 For more information please consult Loft’s web site at  www.loftcs.org
 

 

 


 

 

 

     

 

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