What is the value of your Drop-in program? Who drops-in?

The Stop’s Drop-in Program provides a safe place where community members have access to nutritious meals, social interaction and connections to social services and community resources. Most of our participants struggle with poverty, isolation, mental or physical illness and/or issues related to settling in Canada. Virtually all Drop-in participants are homeless, under-housed or at risk of losing their housing because they spend more than fifty percent of their household income on rent.

The Drop-in Program has a number of goals:

• To increase participant’s access to healthy food
• To provide a community space that is safe, welcoming and respectful
• To support people to foster change in their lives and communities
• To create a healthy, inclusive and more equitable community

We see a diverse population in the Drop-in, including people from many different cultural groups, a growing number of women and children, seniors, low-wage workers and temporary and seasonal workers. These different groups are brought together by a lack of adequate income with which to purchase nutritious food and ensure good health.