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