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360°kids have provided increased supports to ensure the health and well-being of young people. This includes more access to mental health training for staff, additional partnership supports as well as continuing to provide young people with access to healthy meals, recreation opportunities, and access to counselling.

Family & Natural Supports (FNS)

The Family & Natural supports program strives to work with youth and their families and/or natural supports in order to strengthen relationships and more…

Counselling

Through our counselling program, young people identify and address barriers that are preventing or have prevented them from moving towards their goals.

Home Base Youth Drop-In Centres

Every month, our Home Base Centres serve more than 150 youth each month who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, between the ages of 13 and 26.

York Region Pop-Up

Our goal is to offer young people who are at risk of substance abuse, alcoholism, or gang-related activities with crisis intervention and prevention support. We offer support services to Vaughan, Newmarket, Aurora, Richmond Hill and Markham.

YOUTHrive

The program offers inclusive, enriched recreation and mentorship programming for the residents of seven (7) housing co-operative communities to support their social, emotional, physical and mental health needs.

Leadership Engagement Gang Intervention Team (L.E.G.I.T) Plus

L.E.G.I.T. Workers assist youth 12 – 20 yrs. who are involved in gangs, at-risk of gang involvement and/or have a history of involvement with the criminal justice system.

Leadership Engagement Gang Intervention Team (LEGIT)

L.E.G.I.T. Workers assist youth 12 – 20 yrs. who are involved in gangs, at-risk of gang involvement and/or have a history of involvement with the criminal justice system.

Provincial Youth Outreach Workers

Youth Outreach Workers assist youth 12-25 yrs. to access services that can be of support to any aspect of their lives.

Aftercare and Transitional Support

The Aftercare and Transitional Support Program assists youth transitioning out of the care of the Children’s Aid Society.

Substance Use and Addiction Program

Connect with youth peers who have lived experience using cannabis who will engage in evidence-based conversations in a safe unbiased, informed and non-judgement environment.

How a donation makes a difference

Your generosity and gift to 360°kids will go directly towards improving the lives of at-risk and homeless youth who use our programs and services

Support.
Inspire.
Overcome.

At 360°kids community always comes first. Since our founding in 1989, we have continued to provide a full complement of programs and services aimed at assisting at-risk and homeless youth. We take a complete 360° approach to care.

Our Vision

Every kid deserves access to a safe home. 360°kids now serves over 2,500 youth each year, from every municipality in York Region. Although in the last three years we saw this number fluctuate, our commitment to providing essential housing, employment, education and well-being services, never wavered.

Our Mission

To prevent homelessness by helping youth at risk or in crisis transition to a state of safety and stability.

Our History

The Family & Natural supports program strives to work with youth and their families and/or natural supports in order to strengthen relationships. Youth work alongside their respective FNS workers to identify systems of support and gain new tools for conflict management. Throughout the process the FNS team will utilize client specific case management plans to work towards a state of homeostasis in that young person’s life.

Goals

The goal is to ensure that by cultivating positive connections between youth and their family and natural supports we can begin to prevent any further youth from becoming homeless and entering into the emergency housing system in York Region. FNS Is part of a larger research project, this means that participants and their families will have the opportunity to engage in research interviews during the case management process, as well as afterwards.

Eligibility

  • Youth between the ages of 13 – 24
  • At-risk of homelessness or currently experiencing homelessness
  • Youth who would like to reconnect with a family or natural support person
  • Youth may be in the contemplation stage of wanting to reconnect
  • Youth who would like to strengthen or enhance existing relationships with family/natural support

Referral Process

Please complete the referral document below. Share as much detail as possible to allow staff the ability to have a clear understanding of the young person’s situation.

Staff from the Family and Natural Supports team will reach out in 48 hours.

For more information please contact:

Family and Natural Supports Team (FNS)

10415 Yonge Street – Suite C
Richmond Hill, ON. L4C 0Z3
647-522-8563   or   647-223-4957

 

RELATED INFORMATION:

Further Reading on the importance of FNS for youth  –  Canadian Observatory on Homelessness; A Way Home Canada; Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Demonstration Lab (MtS DEMs)

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