Helping Newcomers
Make Canada Home
As a community-based settlement agency, MNLC 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
Make the Holidays Magical 50/50
Congratulations to our $1,294 Grand Prize winner Dalton Jantzi, ticket #: D-1879!
Here’s your chance to win money and support a great cause! When you buy tickets for MNLC’s Make the Holidays Magical 50/50 Raffle, 50% of total sales goes to one lucky winner.
Congratulations to our winners:
- $200 Early Bird Prize winner – Jean Docheff, ticket #: B-1136
- $100 A Bit of Holiday Sparkle – Rob M, ticket #: C-1690
Proceeds from this raffle directly support the services and programming at MNLC, helping newcomers, refugees, and vulnerable communities build safer, stronger futures.
Get your tickets today and make a difference!
The following individuals are not eligible to participate:
- Residents outside Ontario
- Anyone under the age of 18
- Bona fide members responsible for the conduct of the raffle lottery event
In-person appointments are available Mondays to Fridays at our Keele office. Please contact us to make an appointment. We continue to offer services via email and online.
Email: themnlct@gmail.com
In-person appointments are available Mondays to Fridays at our Keele office. Please contact us to make an appointment. We continue to offer services via phone, email, and online.
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How We Help
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Your Wellbeing
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Pour des services d’établissement en français et/ou la formation linguistique en français, veuillez trouver des services gratuits pour les nouveaux arrivants près de chez vous. | If you wish to access French language training and/or French settlement services, please find free newcomer services near you.
"Before MNLC, I felt lost. I couldn’t find a service that could help me. But now emotional knowledge has given me a freedom that I didn’t have before. My therapist helped me and gave me real advice on how to set my boundaries.”
What’s Your Story
About Us
Mission Statement
The MNLC 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
We envision 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 celebrates its 40th anniversary!
“The people who work for MNLC 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
Download free
Community of Care app now added!
Available in English, Arabic, Mandarin, and Spanish
The MNLCT Newcomer
Support App
In partnership with iCent
