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Monday 8:30am - 4:30pm Tuesday 8:30am - 4:30pm Wednesday 8:30am - 4:30pm Thursday 8:30am - 4:30pm Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm

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Elizabeth Fry Toronto

We deliver gender based, trauma informed services for women & non binary people who are criminalized.

Elizabeth Fry Toronto, established in 1952, serves women who are, have been or are at risk of being in conflict with the criminal justice system. We provide transitional housing and community supports that are:

Women-centred: ensuring women and girls receive services and supports that respect their social, economic, physical and cultural realities and based on the assumption that women know their

own realities best and are best served by models that acknowledges women’s differences from men. Gender-responsive: creating service models that reflect an understanding of the realities of the lives of women and girls and address and respond to their strengths and challenges. Anti-oppressive: implementing practices that acknowledge repression in societies, economies, cultures and groups and seeking to remove or negate the influence of such repression.

04/25/2026

✨Meet the compassionate volunteer behind Court Support

This Volunteer Appreciation Week, we're shining a light on the dedicated volunteers who show up and demonstrate unwavering support for those navigating the bail system with dignity.🧡

For many of our volunteers, this work is also shaping their paths as future social workers and lawyers, building real-world skills in communication, advocacy and client support.

Thank you for the time and care you put into each person.🌈

04/24/2026

💻Today we celebrate our incredible Research Volunteers who support writing, communications and research across multiple programs!

Your dedication makes knowledge accessible📚 You help us to bridge gaps, connect ideas and ensures information moves, grows and impact communities!

Thank you for your time, care and talent🧡

04/23/2026

A record suspension can help open doors to work, housing, and stability. We’re here to make the process clearer and more accessible.

We offer free, one-on-one support to help you navigate the process.

recordsuspensions@efrytoronto.org
416-924-3708 ext 400

04/22/2026

👏A HUGE thank you to our amazing BINGO Volunteers!

💫 From welcoming guests with a smile to keeping Bingo running smoothly, your presence makes a difference. You shape the experience for everyone who walks through those doors, handing each question with patience and professionalism.

🌈By taking on these shifts, our volunteers are directly helping us to raise vital funds and continue the work we do in community. We are so grateful and couldn't do this without you!

04/21/2026

🎉Let's hear it for our incredible Court Support Volunteers!

Our dedicated team of Court Support Volunteers commit to one-4 hour shift per week at the Toronto Regional Bail Centre (TRBC), providing emotional and practical support to women-identifying, non-binary individuals and their families navigating the bail system.

Thank you to our Court Support Volunteers who give their time, expertise, passion, patience and hard work each and every week. You are an essential part of our TRBC team, and we couldn't do it without you!

04/20/2026

We see this greatness everyday in our INCREDIBLE volunteers 🧡🩵
Across every role, our volunteers commitments to dignity and care help us build a more compassionate community everyday.

THANK YOU for showing up, for standing with us. We are so grateful to be in this work together

💫Join us this week to celebrate our Elizabeth Fry Toronto Volunteers and see how their passion and values make an impact.✨

04/18/2026

Many incarcerated people are victims of systemic societal failures. Research has shown that limited access to mental health care, poverty, unstable housing, trauma and systemic inequities are contributing factors to justice involvement.

📢A system that invests in more prisons than community will keep producing the same outcome.
💡Safer communities are built through investing in communities.

04/17/2026

When financial options increase, so do choices.

Our Just In Time program is FREE! We support women and non-binary individuals with practical tools to build stability and move forward.

✉️ justintime@efrytoronto.org
📞 416-924-3708 ext. 231

04/16/2026

Sign-on to the | No Ontario Prison Expansion open letter that will be sent to Members of Provincial Parliament: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdL8rBRVexmD8reNP1Ysz5nRrGU2DMX_XIt0U6yhV7TB8jkkw/viewform

You can also save-the-date for a protest being held on 23 May 2026 at Queen’s Park in Toronto | Dish With One Spoon Territory.

Sources:
https://cappontario.ca/
https://cp-ep.org/

04/14/2026

Standing strong is a FREE supportive individual and group counselling program for women-identifying and gender-diverse young adults (ages 16-29) who have experienced family or gender-based violence.

Standing Strong runs every Tuesday and Thursday and includes:
🌷16-session psycho-educational Trauma Recovery Empowerment Group
🌹Up to 8 sessions of optional individual counselling (pre-group)
🪻Up to 8 session of optional individual counselling upon program graduation (post-group)

The program is guided by the Trauma recovery and Empowerment Model, an evidence based intervention that supports individuals exploring the connection between pat experiences of harm and their current thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. Participants are empowered to develop skills that address both short-term and long-term impacts of trauma in their lives.

We welcome 2SLGBTQIA+, Indigenous, Black and racialized groups, newcomers, refugees, and people with disabilities. Referrals and self-referrals are accepted year round!

📌Text, email or call
Dana: 416-573-7876
Karen: 416-528-7390
standingstrong@efrytoronto.org

04/09/2026

📢Supervised consumption sites are a public health response grounded in evidence. Removing these sites will not make the toxic drug crisis disappear it will make things worse.

Alt Text: Over 10 years of research consistently shows that there is no link between supervised consumption sites and increase in crime. Supervised consumption sites are a key component of compassionate and evidence-based public health and safety.

The forced shut down of supervised consumption sites endangers lives, and pushes people further away from help. For community members who face heightened barriers due to justice involvement, poverty, violence and stigma, supervised consumption sites serve as trusted access points to health and social supports that build stability.

Supporting these services is a critical step towards addressing structural inequities and ensuring every person has the opportunity to survive and thrive.

Elizabeth Fry Toronto supports harm reduction approaches that promote dignity, connection and care.

Source:https://www.ccsa.ca/sites/default/files/2024-10/SCS-Evidence-Brief-en.pdf

04/08/2026

International Day of Pink began in 2007 in Canada, two students encouraged their classmates to wear pink shirts to school after witnessing a peer being bullied for wearing a pink shirt. What started as a small act of solidarity grew into a movement that promotes inclusion, acceptance and courage.

Homophobia and transphobia impact our community members daily, and International Day of Pink reminds us that creating safe and inclusive spaces requires action.

Address

215 Wellesley Street East
Toronto, ON
M4X1G1

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Friday	8:30am - 4:30pm

Website

http://www.efrytoronto.org/, http://twitter.com/efry_toronto

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