Volunteering & Student Placements

The Mennonite New Life Centre seeks to be 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. We seek to offer meaningful volunteer opportunities and limited student placements.

Volunteer

Volunteers play an important role in building this community of mutual support, reciprocal learning and collective action. They bring compassion and solidarity, knowledge and skills, ideas and enthusiasm to the activities and work of MNLCT.

We seek to provide meaningful volunteer opportunities: opportunities that honour the ideas and skills of the volunteer, while responding to the needs of the community and the mission of the Mennonite New Life Centre. Volunteering with us offers you the opportunity to:

  • meet new people and build community connections
  • improve language and communication skills
  • develop new skills and explore new career paths
  • gain Canadian experience and references

Volunteers work with us in many kinds of roles, from reception and interpretation to community organizing and group facilitation. 

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Student Placements

The Mennonite New Life Centre of Toronto offers limited placement opportunities to college and university students, in settlement, mental health, community work, fundraising & nonprofit management and social work programs. Placements spaces are limited and usually advertised through the relevant school or program.

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"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,”

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Thank you for your patience as we continue to respond to a cybersecurity incident affecting our communication systems.

We are happy to share an important update — we are now able to send outgoing emails. Going forward, you will receive our emails from our new domain, @mnlc.ca, in addition to our temporary Gmail addresses. Please watch for us in your inbox. 

If you haven’t already, you can sign up to receive email updates from us directly here.

How we work on Canada Day Week

All our offices will be closed from Monday, June 29th, to Friday, July 3rd inclusive.

LINC, Mental Health, and Bridging programs are available virtually on Monday, June 29, and Tuesday, June 30.

Community Health Services is available virtually on Tuesday, June 30.

We will reopen on Monday, July 6th.

🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦

We know it has been frustrating and difficult to reach us during this time, and we sincerely apologize for that. Please know that all our programs and services are running and staff are ready to support you. For getting in touch with us, please continue to use our temporary Gmail addresses:

Or drop in to our Keele location (2737 Keele St, units 9, 111, 112, North York) or Finch location (1122 Finch Ave West, Unit 1, North York) during office hours:

  • Settlement staff are available onsite at 2737 Keele St Units 111 & 112 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM Monday to Fridays to answer questions and provide guidance. Wi-fi is now available.
  • Community Health Services are available at 1122 Finch W Unit 1 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 9:30 am to 3:00 pm. The HAP clinic is closed for the summer but our Health Navigator can provide guidance in accessing health services.
  • LINC classes are closed for the summer. Registration will begin in August for the fall semester.
  • Mental Health and BREM staff are available by appointment only.

We take your privacy seriously and kindly ask that you do not share sensitive personal information via email.

Thank you for your understanding. We appreciate the many kind words of empathy shared by our community, and we look forward to being fully operational again. We will continue to share updates as our systems are restored.