Seniors and Community Services
Thorncliffe Park (TP) is a unique urban neighbourhood; the layout is a horse-shoe shaped and within a one kilometer range, approximately 30,000 plus residents live in small and large tower buildings. Ninety percent of the accommodations are rentals and eight percent are home ownership. South Asians comprise of 75% of the population, that includes immigrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. English is a second language for almost ninety percent (90%) of the TP population.
One Voice Canada Employment and Community Services mandate is to improve the socioeconomic life of Thorncliffe Park immigrant families. We are committed and capable of delivering great results in many areas of our community development such as career guidance, job search strategies, job placement services, providing technical and soft skills training to enable them in improving their employability skills in the labour market of Canada.
We are aware of the social isolation of the new immigrant seniors in Thorncliffe Park and we are training our seniors on computer tablet technology to connect them to the social media internet world. By empowering our seniors with computer technology we are also addressing their emotional well-being as well.
Promoting healthy life style and conducting health prevention information session for our community is an important part of our mandate to improve the physical and emotional health of our community. We have already started conducting health promotion workshops in partnership with Canadian leading health promotional providers.
