Kids & Parents › Parenting Support
519 Community Centre
- 519 Church St. (at Wellesley St. E.) ext. 109. • View on map »
- 416-392-6878
A year-long renovation aims to add more meeting rooms and a café to this Church Street bastion, known for its long-standing queer-positive and queer-specific family resource programs. Parents can draw on well-connected 519ers for referrals to a number of support agencies (for speech therapy or mental health issues, for example), or pop in for informal support—namely, making new connections with other families. The Family Resource Centre provides an everyday drop-in playgroup for children under six years old, as well as resources and support information for caregivers. The Queer Positive Pre-Natal Class, offered four times a year, is designed for expectant lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual parents. And Daddies and Papas 2B, a 12-week program, explores the practical, emotional, social and legal issues of gay, bisexual and transgender people planning parenthood.
- Hours:
- Mums the World!, last Sa of every month 10–1.
- How much:
- free; 12-week courses $60 suggested donation per course, plus cost of manual.
519 Church St. (at Wellesley St. E.) ext. 109.
Latest posts from Toronto Life's style news feed.
- Mary Katrantzou for Topshop looks like a Wes Anderson movie (and we think it’s awesome) (1 hour ago)
- Toronto’s Imperfect Indulgence scores a major on-screen role in The Vow (3 hours ago)
- Toronto-born Tanya Taylor debuts at NYFW with a sense of whimsy and some killer prints (21 hours ago)
- Like Joe Fresh? Like Hunger Games? Now you can have both (no murder involved) (21 hours ago)
- POLL: White carpet style, Rachel McAdams edition (2 days ago)
Follow Toronto Life on Twitter, Facebook and via RSS