Community Development Halton Blog

Youth researcher Gabe Henriquez reflects on how awareness, opportunity, and community can transform service into meaningful experience.   By Gabe Henriquez   What have you most loved and appreciated about the work of the organization that you are involved in? It takes the two things that I have interest in. It’s a research project, and I’ve done that a lot throughout my years as a student - in high school and now in college. Now, I’m in my second year at Humber. It’s also a t

Youth researcher Claire Liu explores what motivates students to volunteer—and what barriers still stand in their way. By Claire Liu What is your connection to the organization, and why is it so important to you? As a high schooler, the 40-hour requirement affects me. I never thought about it before, and when I learned about this research project, how the 40-hour requirement might affect other people, I started wondering is there an effect and I wanted to find out. So, I joine

A Community Comes Together By: Oak Park Neighbourhood Centre You see it first in the small things. Fewer tents in the parks. More familiar faces smiling back. There is a lightness on the streets that was not there before. As a neighbour, I have watched a quiet miracle unfold. Oak Park Neighbourhood Centre brought people together, ADAPT for counselling and addictions support, Halton Housing Help to connect people with housing, the John Howard Society and Elizabeth Fry Society