New Leaf Celebrates 15 Years
This June marked New Leaf’s 15 year anniversary—a milestone that feels especially significant considering how challenging the last 2 years have been. We made it!
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Panel Discussion: Centering Youth Voices
Centering Youth Voices: Visions of Personal & Community Wellness, hosted by New Leaf Foundation on May 18, 2022, was a powerful conversation led by young leaders sharing their vision of wellness. Watch the recording!
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Youth Wellness Survey Report
In the spring of 2021, New Leaf Foundation created a Youth Wellness Survey. The goal was to engage young people in Toronto and the surrounding area to share their vision of individual and community wellness.
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Annual Report 20/21
Over the past many months, we’ve all been called on to shift on a dime, change what we do and how we do it, with little notice, few resources and while worrying about the health and safety of our communities.
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Best Wishes for 2022
I hope this letter finds you well. It’s been another year of ups and downs, and approaching two years of living through a pandemic has taken a toll on so many. Toronto Foundation’s recent Vital Signs Report shows that anxiety and depression are at a high, and New Leaf’s work feels more important than ever. Through
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Teaching Tomorrow Podcast
New Leaf team members Laura Sygrove and Rochelle Miller join Teaching Tomorrow Podcast host, Celeste Kirsh, to discuss how we might create a community of care in our schools through mindfulness practices. They speak in this episode about New Leaf’s Curriculum Toolkit, how to orient ourselves in the chaos that is this school year, changing the
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Giving Classrooms the Tools to Thrive
In a recent survey, New Leaf put out to young people in the Greater Toronto Area, 89% listed “school” as one of their top stressors. With youth spending most of their waking hours in classrooms, this finding hit us hard. After studying the impacts of stress for many years, here’s what we know is true: Students
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Recipients of Resilient Communities Fund Grant
We’re very proud to announce that New Leaf Foundation is a recent recipient of the Resilient Communities Fund grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation! This important funding is designed to help community organizations rebuild and recover from the impacts of COVID-19. Out of the hardship of the past year, our team created some exciting new initiatives
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Annual Report 2019/20
What a year. As I’m sure you’ve all felt in some shape or form, this has been one like no other, and we’ve each been called upon to adapt, sit with the unknown, and tap into our inner reserves of patience and fortitude. Within New Leaf, we have faced pandemic-related challenges that include a significant decrease
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Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month!⠀ ⠀ High levels of stress, trauma and grief are mental health issues being experienced by so many right now. We’re living through a global pandemic, more isolated from loved ones and experiencing loss, grief and loneliness that often comes with that. We’re witnessing systemic violence and injustice in our communities
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