Helping Newcomers
Make Canada Home
As a community-based settlement agency, the Mennonite New Life Centre of Toronto is a place of welcome, friendship and community, where newcomers and neighbours gather to support each other, learn from each other, and take action together for a more just and compassionate society.
Bridge
Your Career
Bridge
Your Career
Navigate Your First Days
in Canada
Navigate Your First Days
in Canada
Help Create an Inclusive
and Diverse Canada
Help Create an Inclusive
and Diverse Canada
Start
Your Business
Start
Your Business
Support Your
Organization’s Clients
Support Your
Organization’s Clients
Become
a Canadian
Become
a Canadian
Hire Diverse
Talent
Hire Diverse
Talent
Limited in-person appointments are available on Tuesdays & Thursdays in our Keele office and on Wednesdays in the Finch office. Also, we continue to offer services via phone, email and online.
How We Help
"The Mennonite New Life Centre and its BEMC program came in very handy for me at the lowest ebb of my life by providing a lifeline and I am eternally grateful for that.”
What’s Your Story
About Us
Mission Statement
The Mennonite New Life Centre’s mission is to facilitate newcomer settlement and integration through holistic services and community engagement, carried out within a gender justice and anti-oppression framework.
Vision Statement
The Centre envisions a society in which all people from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds participate fully in all aspects of Canadian life. We will model an approach that brings together community engagement and community services, working with newcomers to reduce insecurity and reach integration, strengthen voices and increase social equality.
Milestones
The Mennonite New Life Centre comes into being under the leadership of founding directors Adolfo and Betty Puricelli.
MNLCT moves to 1774 Queen St E, a building shared with two Toronto Mennonite churches. Around this time, the Centre begins to respond to a new refugee movement from the former Yugoslavia.
MNLCT celebrates its 25th anniversary by launching our first two internships for internationally trained psychologists, strengthening our mental health supports for refugees and immigrants struggling with different kinds of stress and trauma.
MNLCT opened a Finch office. The office is home to two bridging programs – Bridge to Registration and Employment in Mental Health (BREM) and Bridge to Employment in Media and Communications (BEMC) – as well as settlement and mental health counselling services.
MNLCT will celebrate its 40th anniversary!
“The people who work for MNLCT are not only professionals, but also have a deep sense of empathy, which is very important when dealing with newcomers.”
What’s Your Story
Help create an inclusive
& diverse Canada
Wellness Place
Roots of the Toronto New Life Wellness Place
The Wellness Place was established to respond to the challenge of improved mental health care for diverse populations. Created through a consultative process with staff and other stakeholders in the broader MNLCT network, the Wellness Place serves people seeking mental health support by offering a broad range of wellness and mental health services aligned with MNLCT areas of expertise.
There will be a continuous, value-added loop between the MNLCT and the Wellness Place so that the MNLCT’s Bridge to Registration and Employment in Mental Health program (BREM) participants can grow their practices.
As a social enterprise, the Wellness Place aims to create a viable business model that will invest in the social good of the Mennonite New Life Centre of Toronto while preparing wellness professionals for their own business success.
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Some of the areas the Wellness Place addresses through counselling:
- Stress
- Depression & anxiety
- Loss & grief
- Anger management
- Family issues for couples, parents, & children
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Identifying & building personal strengths
- Managing transitions
“The future belongs to our children. It’s all about the children and I am so grateful to this country for giving us this opportunity. I am so happy we are here.”
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