Join us for the first annual Community Week taking place from September 17 – 21, 2024 at the Centre for Community Partnerships.
Firmly rooted in the belief that learning happens in community, Community Week connects you to community engagement opportunities while offering spaces to build your community engagement skills as well as reflect on community care, and what it means to be and work in community.
2024 Events
Volunteer Fair
Tuesday, September 17, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Outdoors at the Sir Daniel Wilson Quad, University College
A rain date will be provided in case of inclement weather.
The Volunteer Fair connects you to volunteer and community-engaged learning opportunities on and off campus. You will have the chance to meet with volunteer recruiters from community and student organizations working towards social change and learn more about the CCP’s 2024-2025 programming.
This year, we are excited to host 20+ Toronto-based organizations, including:
- 5N2 Soup Kitchen Project
- Alzheimer Society of Toronto
- Art City in St. James Town
- Asian Community AIDS Services: International Students Rainbow Connection
- Bikechain
- BridgeTO
- Canadian Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Health Care
- Circle of Care
- Climate Justice U of T
- FrancoQueer
- Human Nature Projects Ontario
- Jake’s House
- Kensington Health’s Second Mile Club
- Musicbox Children’s Charity: U of T Student Chapter
- Parkdale Community Food Bank
- Progress Toronto
- SAAAC Autism Centre
- Story Planet
- St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Safe Space Drop-In
- Starts With One
- The Reach Alliance
- U of T Healing Sounds of Music
- Volunteer Toronto
- WoodGreen Community Services
Visit the Volunteer Fair and find ways to meet new people, build your skills and get involved in the community.
Register for Volunteer Fair on Folio.
Community Day at Kensington Health
Thursday, September 19, 2 – 4 p.m.
Kensington Gardens, 25 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto (Kensington Market)
Spend an afternoon volunteering at Kensington Gardens, a long-term care home located just a few minutes away from campus. Connect with seniors through fun social activities, like playing games, enjoying music, crafting, and sharing stories. By participating, you will gain valuable experience, earn CCR recognition, and create memorable moments.
Register for Community Day at Kensington Health on Folio.
Caring for Each Other: Transforming Our Grief Into Cross-Movement Solidarity Workshop
Thursday, September 19, 5 – 7 p.m.
Student Commons, Room 556, 230 College St.
Facilitated by Jody Chan
The work of caring for each other and for our collective liberation so often falls on racialized, queer/trans, and disabled communities: checking in on each other, creating banners and posters, distributing free masks and medical supplies, making food, making phone calls, making safety plans, organizing vigils and grief circles.
What if we understood care work as an inherent and integral part of building cross-movement solidarity? What if we allowed our whole, grieving selves to exist within collective action and shared struggle? What if we recognized that grief as a source of aliveness, of wisdom about the ways in which the systems we live in should be, and must be, otherwise?
In this workshop, we will engage with these questions through reflective prompts, creative activities, and collaborative making. Together, we will gently explore our shared and divergent lineages within liberation movements, and practice how we might care for our grief collectively, so that our grief can transform our lives, our movements, our worlds.
Facilitator bio: Jody Chan is a poet, care worker, and community organizer based in Toronto/Tkaronto. They are the author of two books of poetry, sick (Black Lawrence Press) and impact statement (Brick Books), a member of Daybreak Poets Collective, co-host of the podcast Poet Talk, and an editorial board member of Midnight Sun Magazine.
Register for Caring for Each Other on Folio.
Community Learning Day
Saturday, September 21, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Koffler House, 569 Spadina Crescent
Community Learning Day is a full day of workshops, orientations, and career exploration that will prepare you for community-engaged learning (CEL) opportunities at U of T and introduce you to careers in the community sector.
Over the course of the day, you will learn about CEL at the University and different CEL programs offered by the CCP. You will also build valuable skills for working in community and learn directly from community partners about their career paths.
Community Learning Day sessions will include:
- Skills-building workshops on CEL, EDIA (equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility), and social activism
- Orientations for CCP programs
- A career Q&A panel with community partners
Lunch will be provided.