On August 3, 2012 Mr. Peter Norton of Intact Insurance presented Threshold with a large financial donation that will go towards the new life-skills program.
Intact Insurance gives a high priority to socially responsible actions in the local communities where they operate, as well as having a national focus. These range from youth homelessness, to climate change adaption programs, the Carbon Disclosure Project to intense employee volunteer engagement.
Mr. Peter Norton (Intact Insurance) and Mark Muldoon (Threshold)
Currently, the Intact Foundation has entered into a strategic partnership with Raising the Roof (Toronto), Canada’s only national charity seeking long term solutions to youth homelessness. As their website states, the estimated 65,000 homeless youth in Canada is just too “shocking a statistic” to do nothing.
The Intact donation will go toward our “worth-shop” life-skills course offered in our houses and eventually to our SHY participants. The course is facilitated by Peggy English. The course aims to build self-esteem and self-worth as the first step toward building personal initiative within the youth to seek self-sufficiency for themselves as opposed to having it imposed on them. In many cases, youth have never had a healthy life-style modeled for them. The course aims to close this gap through an experiential set of “worth-shops” that aims at clear and honest communications, skill building, working toward change, and an increase in self-worth.
Thank you Peter Norton, Sylvia Gelissen (Intact Social Responsibility Manager) and all of Intact Insurance for believing in at-risk youth and the promise they hold for all of us in the time to come.
