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Another successful Spring Women’s Wellness Session has wrapped! This session’s cohort consisted of a majority of moms with very young babies, who consistently showed up to each of the workshops even with their little ones in tow. Sessions for this cohort included art therapy, health and wellness workshops, yoga and a new and very apt session for the women about managing stress in preparation for your refugee hearing. Thank you to the @shoppersdrugmart Foundation for Women’s Health for continuing to generously support and fund this program. #refugeewomen #refugeewomenhealthmatters #shoppersfoundationforwomenshealth

We’re looking for donations! 👀👀👀👀👀 Contact us at donations@christiestreetrc.com if you can support us with any of these new items for families. #refugeesintoronto #donationsneeded #refugeesupport #refugeefamilies #donationsappreciated

Christie’s Centre for Refugee Children @crcrefugee received a generous capital grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation @ontrillium to create an indoor gym for unaccompanied refugee youth residing at the Centre for Refugee Children’s emergency youth shelter, Anchor House. The gym opened this month and has become a beloved hang-out spot for the youth living at Anchor House; a small, tucked away spot at the Centre for young people to stay physically active amidst a particularly heavy winter. The gym is equipped with weights, stationary bikes, lifting benches, and rowing machines. We’re so thankful to @ontrillium for this investment in creating vital spaces for socialization and physical activity onsite at Anchor House. In addition to the gym, the capital grant from @ontrillium also allowed the Centre for Refugee Children’s Anchor House to purchase a dining room table, study room table, chairs, outdoor BBQ and dining set in an effort to foster even more places and spaces of togetherness and good health. . . . #refugeeyouth #refugeehouse #refugeehealth #healthy2026 #gymworkout

✨CHRISTMAS AT CHRISTIE✨✨✨ . . . #refugeefamilies #refugeestories #refugeeshelterhouse #refugeesintoronto #firstchristmasincanada

Ever wondered what a room at Christie for a family of three or a family of four (with newborn) looks like? For the first time in a long time, we have empty rooms at Christie. This is a trend almost every holiday season as families rise to the pressure of securing housing in order to spend their first Christmas in Canada in their own space. In total, six families have or will have moved out of Christie this month. . . . #refugeeshelter #refugeesintoronto #refugeefamilies

✨✨✨🦋last day of our After-School Children’s Program until 2026✨✨✨🦋 #refugeechildren

We’re offering our community ideas for giving for Christmas and beyond — well into the New Year. Give in time for Christmas, or (more needed!) in the New Year when our supplies of basic needs dwindles and donations tend to dry up. Here’s what we’re looking for. . . . #refugeefamilies #refugeeshelter #refugeesupport #christmasgiving

❄️❄️ WINTER THINGS ❄️❄️ Holiday parties begin and hearty meals from our talented kitchen team continue and a Children’s Program egg drop challenge takes place (everyone was a winner!) and sledding fun and Women’s Program workshops wrap up and our youngest residents being together in friendship and birthdays. . . . #refugeeshelter #refugeefamilies #refugeefamiliestogether

Christie residents together with staff Carol and Meyuu (back row, right) at this Fall’s Women’s Wellness Program graduation. For women living at Christie, the majority of whom are single mothers (68%), our Women’s Wellness Program is a six-week series of health and well-being workshops we offer twice per year. This Fall’s cohort included many new moms with babies. Meaningful workshops and information sessions addressed new mom stress, postpartum depression, parenting, diabetes, the importance of health screenings and healthy eating. A big thank you to our Child and Family Worker, shelter support staff, on-site health clinic doctors and other guest speakers involved in ensuring the program’s continued success for this cohort. A further thank you to the Shoppers Foundation for Women’s Health for continuing to fund this invaluable program in 2025, as part of their $1.75 million investment in community programs that help improve the state of women’s healthcare across Canada. . . . #refugeehealth #womenshealth #refugeewomen #newmomsupport #shoppersfoundationforwomenshealth #refugeeshelter #refugeewomenrising