Community Development Halton Blog

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

When Someone Finally Says Yes By: Oak Park Neighbourhood Centre What have you most loved and appreciated about the work of the organization that you are involved in? The first time police were called to remove me from a food bank, I was not surprised. By then I had been banned from nearly every place in town for aggressive behaviour. My name came with a warning label. Years of setbacks had drained any belief that life could get better. When Oak Park Neighbourhood Centre agree