Margaret's Nonprofit

Margaret's Nonprofit Wrap-around services for those experiencing homelessness, food insecurity & other complex challenges.

Empowering those with mental health issues to build and reclaim their lives through innovative programming, advocacy, housing-first and education.

07/31/2026

Members of the Margaret's Housing & Community Support Services team were honoured to attend Emancipation Flag Day at Toronto City Hall.

The raising of the Emancipation Flag is a powerful reminder of the resilience, strength, and enduring contributions of Black communities, while recognizing the ongoing pursuit of equity, justice, and freedom. It is an opportunity to reflect on our shared history and reaffirm our commitment to building inclusive communities where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.

At Margaret's, we believe that culturally responsive, equitable care is essential to helping individuals thrive. We are proud to stand alongside our community in recognizing this important day and celebrating the rich history, leadership, and contributions of Black Canadians.

Together, we continue the work of creating communities where everyone has the opportunity to belong.

📣 Announcing Margaret's FREE Health Clinic! 🩺Margaret's is proud to offer free, low-barrier health services for communit...
07/06/2026

📣 Announcing Margaret's FREE Health Clinic! 🩺

Margaret's is proud to offer free, low-barrier health services for community members at our Respite location.📍 21 Park Road, Toronto 📞 416-525-7070

Available Services:

👣 Foot Clinic
Tuesdays & Thursdays
🕛 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

👩‍⚕️ Walk-In Doctor's Clinic
Wednesdays
🕐 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

🩺 Additional Health Clinic Services
Beginning Friday, July 10
Please speak with our staff for upcoming clinic dates and availability.

✅ No appointment required
✅ Check in with staff upon arrival
✅ First-come, first-served

At Margaret's, we believe everyone deserves access to compassionate, respectful healthcare.
We look forward to welcoming you.

Your health starts here. 🧡🩵

07/01/2026

🍁 Happy Canada Day 🍁

Today, we celebrate the people, communities, and shared values that make Canada home.

On this Canada Day, we extend our gratitude to our staff, volunteers, donors, community partners, and the many individuals who make Margaret's work possible. Your compassion, commitment, and generosity help build stronger, healthier, and more inclusive communities every day.

We also warmly welcome those who are new to Canada. Whether you arrived recently or are still finding your footing, we recognize the courage it takes to begin again in a new place. Your experiences, cultures, and contributions enrich our communities and help shape the Canada of today and tomorrow.

Canada Day is also an opportunity to reflect on the work that remains. Across our country, too many people continue to face barriers to housing, healthcare, food security, safety, and belonging. Indigenous Peoples continue to advocate for truth, justice, and reconciliation, while many individuals and families navigate the realities of poverty, homelessness, and rising costs of living.

At Margaret's, we believe that dignity, housing, healthcare, and community connection are not privileges—they are fundamental to a healthy and inclusive society.

As we celebrate today, let us recommit ourselves to building communities where everyone feels valued, supported, and welcomed.

🧡 Honour Indigenous Peoples and the ongoing journey of reconciliation.
🏠 Recognize housing as a human right.
🤝 Foster belonging, inclusion, and community care.
❤️ Work toward a future where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

From all of us at Margaret's, we wish our clients, staff, volunteers, donors, partners, neighbours, and newcomers a safe, joyful, and meaningful Canada Day.

06/29/2026

🌈 Happy Pride!

What an incredible day celebrating love, diversity, inclusion, and community at the Toronto Pride Parade! 🏳️‍🌈

This year, Margaret's was proud to march alongside our staff, clients, volunteers, and allies in celebration of the vibrant 2SLGBTQIA+ community. It was a day filled with joy, connection, laughter, and the shared belief that everyone deserves to be seen, respected, and celebrated for who they are.

At Margaret's, we know that Pride is about more than a parade. It's about creating communities where everyone feels safe, welcome, and valued. It's about standing together in support of dignity, equity, and belonging—not just during Pride Month, but every day of the year.

🏳️‍🌈 Thank you to everyone who marched with us, cheered us on, and helped make this year's Pride Parade such a memorable experience.

Together, we're building a community where everyone belongs.

❤️ Happy Pride from all of us at Margaret's!

🏳️‍🌈🧠 LGBTQ2S+ Communities and Mental HealthMental health matters.While being LGBTQ2S+ is not a mental health issue, exp...
06/29/2026

🏳️‍🌈🧠 LGBTQ2S+ Communities and Mental Health

Mental health matters.

While being LGBTQ2S+ is not a mental health issue, experiences such as discrimination, stigma, rejection, housing instability, and social isolation can have a significant impact on well-being.

Many LGBTQ2S+ individuals face barriers to safe housing, affirming healthcare, and mental health support, contributing to higher rates of anxiety, depression, trauma, and other mental health challenges.

But there is another side to this story:

🌈 Community

🤝 Connection

❤️ Acceptance

🏠 Safe housing

Research shows that when LGBTQ2S+ individuals have access to supportive communities, affirming services, and safe spaces where they can be themselves, mental health outcomes improve significantly.

At Margaret's, we believe everyone deserves access to housing, healthcare, and support without fear of discrimination or judgment.

🏳️‍🌈 Everyone deserves to feel safe.

🧠 Everyone deserves access to mental health support.

❤️ Everyone deserves a place where they belong.

🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Pride Is Community. Pride Is Resistance.Today, the streets of Toronto are filled with colour, celebration, music,...
06/28/2026

🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Pride Is Community. Pride Is Resistance.

Today, the streets of Toronto are filled with colour, celebration, music, and joy.
But Pride did not begin as a celebration. Pride began as a movement for justice.
Pride exists because generations of 2SLGBTQIA+ people fought back against discrimination, criminalization, violence, and exclusion.

✊🏿 It exists because q***r and trans communities refused to be silenced.

🏳️‍⚧️ It exists because activists, advocates, and community leaders demanded the right to live openly, safely, and authentically.

While Pride is a time of celebration, it is also a time of reflection. For many 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, significant barriers still exist.

Today, we celebrate the resilience, diversity, and contributions of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.

🌈 We celebrate authenticity.

🏳️‍⚧️ We celebrate courage.

💙 We celebrate belonging.

And we recommit ourselves to building communities rooted in equity, inclusion, dignity, and care. Because Pride is more than a celebration.

✊ Pride is community.

🏳️‍🌈 Pride is belonging.

❤️ Pride is resilience.

🌈 And Pride reminds us that everyone deserves the freedom to live as their authentic self.
Happy Pride from all of us at Margaret's.

🏳️‍🌈 Understanding LGBTQ2S+ HomelessnessWhen many people think about homelessness, they think primarily about the loss o...
06/25/2026

🏳️‍🌈 Understanding LGBTQ2S+ Homelessness

When many people think about homelessness, they think primarily about the loss of housing.

But for many LGBTQ2S+ individuals, homelessness often begins long before a person loses a place to live. It can begin with rejection.

💔 Rejection from family members after coming out.

🏠 The loss of a safe home environment.

🚫 Discrimination in housing, employment, healthcare, or education.

🤝 A lack of affirming spaces where people feel accepted, respected, and supported.

For some, it means being forced to leave home. For others, it means experiencing violence, isolation, or exclusion because of who they are.

Many LGBTQ2S+ individuals, particularly youth, face unique challenges that increase their risk of housing instability and homelessness. Research consistently shows that LGBTQ2S+ youth are disproportionately represented among people experiencing homelessness in Canada.

This reality is not a reflection of who they are. It is a reflection of the barriers, discrimination, and lack of support that too many continue to face.

🧠 Homelessness can have significant impacts on mental health and well-being.

🏥 It can create barriers to accessing healthcare and support services.

🌱 It can make it more difficult to pursue education, employment, and long-term stability.

Yet behind these challenges are individuals with incredible strength, resilience, and hope.

At Margaret's, we believe that everyone deserves to feel safe, respected, and valued.

🏳️‍🌈 Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity.

❤️ Everyone deserves access to support without fear of judgment.

🏠 Everyone deserves safe and stable housing.

🤝 Everyone deserves a community where they can belong.

Creating safer communities means more than providing housing alone. It means creating environments where people are affirmed for who they are. It means ensuring that services are inclusive, welcoming, and accessible. It means standing against discrimination and fostering communities rooted in compassion, respect, and belonging.

📱 Less scrolling. More connecting.We're excited to support the launch of MARGE — a new Toronto-based initiative that cre...
06/23/2026

📱 Less scrolling. More connecting.

We're excited to support the launch of MARGE — a new Toronto-based initiative that creates experiences that bring people together through movement, conversation, culture, and community.

In a world where so much of life happens online, MARGE is creating opportunities to step away from our screens and build real connections with real people.

And the best part? ❤️

Every ticket purchased helps support Margaret's work with women and individuals experiencing homelessness, mental health challenges, substance use, and housing instability.

Connection has the power to change lives. Whether it's a conversation, a new friendship, a sense of belonging, or access to support when it's needed most — community matters.

We're proud to partner with a group of young leaders who are turning social connection into social impact.

🎟️ Come for the experience.
🤝 Stay for the community.
❤️ Support a cause that matters.
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🧡 Indigenous Homelessness: A Different RealityWhen many people think about homelessness, they think only about the absen...
06/23/2026

🧡 Indigenous Homelessness: A Different Reality

When many people think about homelessness, they think only about the absence of housing.
But Indigenous homelessness is often a much broader and more complex experience.

For many Indigenous Peoples, home is not simply a physical structure. Home is a connection to family, community, culture, language, identity, land, and traditional ways of knowing and being.

When those connections are disrupted or lost, the impact can be profound.

🏠 The absence of safe and stable housing.

🧡 Separation from community, culture, family, language, and traditional supports.

The overrepresentation of Indigenous Peoples among those experiencing homelessness in Canada is not accidental. It is rooted in generations of colonial policies and systemic inequities, including:

🪶 Forced displacement from traditional lands

🏫 The legacy of residential schools

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family separation and intergenerational trauma

⚖️ Systemic discrimination and racism

🏘️ Barriers to safe, affordable, and culturally appropriate housing

💰 Economic inequities and limited access to resources

These factors continue to influence housing stability and well-being for many Indigenous individuals, families, and communities today.

Recognizing these realities is an important step toward understanding that homelessness is not simply an individual issue; it is often the result of broader historical and systemic challenges.

🤝 When we talk about ending homelessness, we must also talk about reconciliation.

🌱 We must talk about healing.

🧡 We must talk about equity, self-determination, and culturally meaningful pathways to housing and support.

True solutions require listening to Indigenous voices, respecting Indigenous knowledge, and supporting Indigenous-led approaches that reflect the unique strengths, cultures, and needs of Indigenous communities.

🧡 Housing solutions must be rooted in understanding, respect, partnership, and reconciliation.

🧠 For many First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities, mental health cannot be separated from culture, identity, langua...
06/22/2026

🧠 For many First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities, mental health cannot be separated from culture, identity, language, family, community, and connection to the land.

Yet Indigenous Peoples continue to experience significant mental health inequities rooted in the lasting impacts of colonial policies, forced assimilation, displacement, residential schools, the Sixties Scoop, and ongoing systemic barriers.

These historical and contemporary realities continue to affect communities today.

📉 Indigenous Peoples experience disproportionately higher rates of mental health challenges, including depression, anxiety, trauma, substance use, and su***de.

⚠️ Many continue to face barriers accessing culturally safe and appropriate mental health services.

⚠️ Others experience the impacts of disconnection from culture, language, community, and traditional supports.

These challenges are not a reflection of individual weakness. They are connected to generations of systemic inequities and the ongoing need for healing, reconciliation, and meaningful investment in Indigenous-led solutions.

🪶 Healing is deeply personal. And for many Indigenous communities, healing is strengthened through connection to land, ceremony, language, Elders, traditional knowledge, family, and community.

At Margaret's, we recognize that supporting mental wellness requires more than clinical services alone. We support approaches that promote dignity, self-determination, cultural safety, and holistic well-being.

Because healing happens when people feel connected, respected, supported, and empowered.

🧡 Mental health is a human right.

🧡 Healing is a journey.

🧡 Every person deserves the opportunity to thrive.

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221 Broadview Avenue, 2nd Floor
Toronto, ON
M4M2G3

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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416.463.1481

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