Make Home Safe For Everyone

Home should be the safest place in the world — but for too many women, children, and families in Toronto, it isn’t.

Every year, Toronto Police Services responds to thousands of domestic violence incidents — a clear reflection of what Yorktown Family Services sees on the front lines: families facing escalating violence, children living with trauma, youth in crisis, and caregivers unsure where to turn for help.

The Make Home Safe campaign brings together Yorktown’s full continuum of violence prevention, crisis intervention, mental-health care, and family support programs. Your gift ensures that every woman, child, and family who reaches out to us can access immediate, compassionate, and life-changing support.

Hope starts with safety — your support makes that possible.

The Need Has Never Been Greater

Across our Make Home Safe program suite, mid-year data shows:

• Police and school referrals are increasing, particularly for mental-health crises, family conflict, and child safety concerns.
• Youth are struggling with trauma, emotional regulation, and school disengagement, especially those involved in child welfare or impacted by violence.
• Families report greater instability, including housing insecurity and challenges accessing culturally appropriate support.
• Black youth and families face systemic barriers, making culturally affirming mental-health and family support essential.
• Children healing from violence require immediate therapeutic intervention, but group programs often operate at or beyond capacity.
• Caregivers describe feeling isolated, overwhelmed, and unsure where to turn — until they find Yorktown.

Your support ensures no one is left on a waitlist when safety is at risk.

What Your Support Helps Make Possible

Your gift supports an interconnected circle of programs that help families regain safety, rebuild trust, and heal from violence:

• Rapid Access Therapy: Immediate mental-health support for women, children, and families facing crisis.
• Black Lives Accessing Care: Culturally affirming mental-health and wraparound support for Black youth and families navigating trauma, Child Welfare involvement, or instability.
• Here to Help: Mother–child trauma groups that strengthen attachment, rebuild safety, and support healing after violence.
• Mindful Fathering: Violence-prevention programming that helps fathers build accountability, empathy, and healthy parenting skills.
• Keeping Families Together: Supports that stabilize families, strengthen relationships, and reduce the risk of CAS involvement.
• RightPlace: Care navigation and safety planning for youth and families at risk of gender-based or community violence.
• Youth Outreach & Wraparound: Helping young people navigate safety concerns, trauma, school disengagement, and family conflict through individualized support and goal-driven planning.

Every one of these programs works toward a critical goal: to make home safe again.

Your Gift Creates Real Impact

These are examples of what your support can make possible across the Make Home Safe programs:

⭐ $150 Helps women and children connect to immediate counselling without delay.

⭐ $200 Provides prevention programming to stop violence before it starts.

⭐ $220 Supports a father’s participation in a violence-prevention group session that promotes empathy and accountability.

⭐ $250 Supports a child’s participation in a weekly trauma-healing group or expands access for families waiting for help.

⭐ $260 Provides group-based support where caregivers strengthen emotional regulation and positive parenting.

⭐ $350 Supplies program materials and facilitation for weekly safety-focused parenting or family sessions.

⭐ $375 Funds therapeutic supplies and food for a healing group session for children and their mothers.

⭐ $400 Provides follow-up counselling sessions to support coping, stabilization, and safety planning.

⭐ $500 Supports mother–child counselling to rebuild trust and connection after violence.

⭐ $1,200 Provides six weeks of intensive therapy and wraparound care for a youth or family navigating trauma.

⭐ $2,500 Funds a full cycle of group sessions for a mother and her children to help them heal from emotional trauma.

⭐ $2,600 Supports a 12-week violence-prevention cycle for father that helps create safer, more stable homes for children.

The demand for life-saving gender-based violence supports has never been greater, and critical programs are at risk without dedicated funding.

Hope starts with safety — your support makes that possible. Help bring safety, healing, and hope to women, children, and families.

Hope Starts With Safety — Your Support Makes That Possible.

Help bring safety, healing, and hope to women, children, and families.