YMCA Toronto – Learning Opportunities Program

The YMCA has a long- history in providing adult literacy services. In 1987, the YMCA began The Learning Opportunities Program . This program provides many services including literacy and basic skills education, training in reading, writing and math and computer and life skills instruction. Funded by the City of York (where they were initially located until they moved to downtown Toronto in 1999), most students travel to the Toronto’s core, but a learning space is rented in York for those students who cannot.

The goals of the students include academic upgrading, furthering studies, maintaining and retaining employment, obtaining access to better jobs or promotions, and independence.

Because the YMCA is a large organization with programs that work with different communities, the need to collaborate and ensure that clients are getting all the services they need is key, and something that staff and volunteers alike strive towards every day.

Watch the student video and be inspired by the YMCA's program.