Rooted Joy

Rooted Joy Rooted Joy aims to cultivate accessible, affirming spaces centering QTBIPOC and other marginalized experiences while fostering joy, healing, and community.

Rooted Joy cultivates accessible, affirming spaces centering BIPOC experiences, fostering joy, healing, and community through collaborative events rooted in mental health empowerment, cultural celebration, and collective liberation. We co-create collaborative events rooted in mental health empowerment, cultural celebration, and collective liberation. Get in touch to learn more! Website coming soon.

08/11/2026

👑🎒 Crowned & Prepared is happening September 6 and you don’t want to miss this! 💜

We have SO much in store to help our kids head back to school feeling confident, excited, and prepared! ✨

🎒 School supplies
🧼 Hygiene essentials
📚 Educational resources
🎨 Colouring Corner
💜 Youth Corner
👕 Create-your-own custom shirt station
🥤 Custom cup station
🎯 Games, activities & LOTS of prizes to be won!

Bring the kids and come ready for a full day of fun, creativity, community, and back-to-school preparation. 🙌🏾

📅 September 6th
🎟️ Make sure you get your tickets link in bio!

Tag another parent and make it a family day! 👇🏾💜

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08/11/2026

Join our team! We’re hiring qualified Community Health Ambassadors (CHAs) from Taylor-Massey, Oakridge, Victoria Village, Clairlea-Birchmount or surrounding neighbourhoods for our East Effort Program. There are multiple positions open for CHAs ($20/hr), and one CHA Lead ($25/hr).

CHAs play a key role in improving the health of community members through culturally-sensitive outreach, workshops, and other health promotion activities.

This is a great opportunity for east end residents with a background in social sciences or community development. Work directly with newcomers and other underserved community members, supporting health promotion strategies in a welcoming and diverse environment!

Apply by August 13, 2026. For more details on the positions, and how to apply:

CHA role:https://accessalliance.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Community-Health-Ambassador-June-2026-JP.pdf

CHA Lead role:https://accessalliance.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Community-Health-Ambassador-Lead-2026-JP.pdf

Hurricane Melissa was the first Category 5 catastrophic tropical cyclone to hit the small island of Jamaica in 40 years,...
11/07/2025

Hurricane Melissa was the first Category 5 catastrophic tropical cyclone to hit the small island of Jamaica in 40 years, late October. Many homes and businesses were decimated by the storm, with the following floods washing away livestock, produce and much more amenities vital for the country to run.

Our community needs our help. Let’s come together to support The Morning Detour and ASE Community Foundation in their efforts to help rebuild Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa.

Montreal-Based:
Donate items to DG Kicks

Canada-Wide:
Donate funds to support accessibility needs for Jamaicans as well as essential care items. E-transfer: [email protected]

Every little bit helps!

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10/23/2025

The Rooted & Rising Community Wellness Exhibition reminded us just how powerful it is when we come together to nurture our minds, bodies, and spirits. Every moment was a reflection of growth, grounding, and gratitude. 🌿💫

Thank you to everyone who showed up with open hearts, shared their gifts, and created such a beautiful atmosphere of community care. We’re not just rising, we’re rising together. 🤍

🪷🌱Meet Rooted & Rising’s Co-Organizers Aishah Seivwright and Monique!🌱🪷🗃️🗂️Working in Operations, Event, and Project man...
10/18/2025

🪷🌱Meet Rooted & Rising’s Co-Organizers Aishah Seivwright and Monique!🌱🪷

🗃️🗂️Working in Operations, Event, and Project management as well as Founder of Rooted Joy, Aishah’s an imaginative and solution-oriented project coordinator, who brings a deeply grounded perspective on equity, intersectionality and neurodiversity in her work to destigmatize mental health. Through innovative design, and collaboration, Aishah delivers effective community-driven programming, as well as uniquely intimate cultural experiences through Rooted Joy.☀️✨

🌻🌼A new initiative, Rooted Joy’s mission is to cultivate accessible, affirming spaces centering BIPOC experiences, fostering joy, resilience, healing, and community through collaborative events rooted in mental health empowerment, cultural celebration, and collective liberation.🌻🌼

💼🌺Co-Organizer Monique is the owner of TheDynasty a feminine wellness brand rooted in womb care, self-love and healing. TheDynasty is a movement dedicated to empowering women through natural wellness, self-care, and education. We provide safe, holistic solutions from yoni steaming and natural feminine care products to wellness education. We create spaces where we help women reconnect with their bodies, embrace their femininity, and prioritize their well-being.🌸🌷

🌸💐Rooted in authenticity and tradition, we are committed to breaking taboos and creating a community where women feel seen, supported, and celebrated. At TheDynasty, wellness is not just a practice, it’s a lifestyle.🪻🌹

🌇 Many thanks to the City of Toronto for funding this event through the ! 🌆

⚡️We can’t wait to spend a wonderfully nurturing day with you all!⚡️

🌻✨Meet Rooted & Rising: Community Wellness Exhibition’s Final Wellness Vendors and Facilitator! 🌱☀️🌰🌴Providing natural A...
10/17/2025

🌻✨Meet Rooted & Rising: Community Wellness Exhibition’s Final Wellness Vendors and Facilitator! 🌱☀️

🌰🌴Providing natural African plant-based products for skincare, hair care, muscle and joint pain, and super foods - Black To Eden has been promoting African Skin Care for over 25 years. Their main product is Shea Butter, a nut used in cooking and cosmetics that goes as far back as Cleopatra and even thousands of years before her time. At Black To Eden, they like to keep it as natural as it is with no artificial processing; they believe that the less they handle it the better it is for you.🌿🪘

🔔🍃Meet our Soundbath Facilitator Lindy-Ann Barrow ! Lindy-Ann will provide a soothing, and calming environment for checking in with ourselves. Through her coaching programs, retreats, and community experiences, Lindy-Ann creates sacred spaces for women to heal, connect, and rise together in sisterhood. Her work is both a sanctuary and a movement-restoring emotional resilience, empowering feminine essence, and guiding women to rewrite their love story with themselves and with life.✨🎐

🪞🪮A curator of natural products, Royal Roots Beauty is a small business with a global mindset, rooted in wellness and nature. They celebrate the healing power of Jamaican Black Castor Oil — a time honored remedy that nourishes and restores skin and hair. From their island to the world stage they craft self care regimes that honor tradition, embrace sustainability, and elevate everyday wellness. 🏝️🇯🇲

Check these vendors and facilitator out, this Saturday, register now via the link in bio! 🔗

🌻✨Meet Rooted & Rising: Community Wellness Exhibition’s Sponsors! 🌱☀️🎇💥Providing our closing fireworks ceremony, Shevonn...
10/16/2025

🌻✨Meet Rooted & Rising: Community Wellness Exhibition’s Sponsors! 🌱☀️

🎇💥Providing our closing fireworks ceremony, Shevonne Chin, founder of Flik FX is an Industry Leader in Aerial Signage and Advertising. Shevonne is Canada’s First Woman Swarm Drone Pilot ‍and Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch 2024! We can’t wait for what Flik FX has in store for our guests! Check out their website to see how you can wow your guests at your next event, www.flickthefireworks.ca! 💥🎆

💊👩🏾‍⚕️Big thanks to Imana Health , one of our care package sponsors, for donating probiotic vitamins catered to melanated people, especially for our harsh Canadian winters! Imana Health Inc. is a Canadian, Black women-owned wellness company founded by two female physicians, Dr. Duate Adegbite and Dr. Nena-Rae Watson. The company is dedicated to advancing women’s health through trusted, evidence-based supplements. Their flagship product, Muna, is a daily oral probiotic formulated with Lactiplantibacillus plantarum and Vitamin D to support vaginal health and immune function. Rooted in science and representation, Imana Health aims to create culturally conscious solutions for women everywhere. Check out their website for your health needs, imanahealth.com! 🩺⚕️

🌳🏘️Lastly, big thank you to the Malvern Family Resource Centre for lending their venue and for promoting our event to their community! The Malvern Family Resource Centre (MFRC) is an essential and trusted Community Hub that connects, engages, and takes collaborative action in supporting our communities to thrive. They use their public spaces, and they’re deep and authentic connections, to bring people together with a focus on those that need us the most. Visit their page and website to learn more about their amazing programs and services, mfrc.org! 🪴💚

Check out the impact of our wonderful sponsors, register now via the link in bio! 🔗

🌻✨Meet Rooted & Rising: Community Wellness Exhibition’s Community Partner The National Eating Disorder Information Centr...
10/05/2025

🌻✨Meet Rooted & Rising: Community Wellness Exhibition’s Community Partner The National Eating Disorder Information Centre ! 🌱☀️

🌿NEDIC is Canada’s source for eating disorder education and support since 1985. They operate a national toll-free helpline and live chat program, providing in-the-moment support, information, resources, and navigation of healthcare services to people struggling with eating disorders, as well as the families, friends, and professionals who care for them. They frequently create resources that are listed on NEDIC.ca and maintain a national service provider directory to help people locate healthcare options that work with people affected by eating disorders. With a focus on prevention and risk factors, NEDIC’s community education program delivers workshops to youth, educators, and parents in school settings and facilitates capacity-building professional development to youth-serving providers and healthcare professionals.🌿

🌻NEDIC will be facilitating a panel discussion on finding the balance: navigating conversations around “healthy” eating and exercise. In this panel discussion, we will hear from parents, clinicians, and youth with lived experience of an eating disorder as they share their experience and strategies for supporting your relationship with eating, movement, and body image.🌻

Register now to meet NEDIC staff in person at the exhibition! Link in bio 🔗

10/02/2025

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10/02/2025

Meet people, get informed, and improve your your health and wellness on the way! Access Alliance has a wide range of fun, free activities for newcomers and their communities, throughout the fall and winter. Join us for bike skills, nutrition tips, fitness, field trips and everything in between!

Check out our brand new program calendar for more info on programs & events for all ages:
https://accessalliance.ca/program-calendar/

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