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A community of drop-ins and allied members throughout Toronto

 

About Toronto Drop-in Network (TDIN)

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What is a Drop-in?

Drop-ins provide a welcoming space where people experiencing homelessness, who are marginally housed or who are socially isolated can feel safer and can meet their own basic physical, social, personal, and mental health needs. Drop-ins offer opportunities for drop-in participants to foster a positive sense of self by building relationships and exploring and exercising choice. Drop-ins play a key role in breaking down isolation, as well as supporting critically important social skills and connections.

What is the Toronto Drop-in Network (TDIN)?

In the 1990s, drop-ins in Toronto started forming networks to advance an understanding of the drop-in model, and to address issues of common concern. These networks joined to form TDIN: an active coalition of drop-in centres throughout the City of Toronto that work with people who are homeless, marginally housed, or socially isolated. Our Network includes drop-ins of all sizes, and with a diversity of philosophies that serve men, women, transgender and non-binary people, youth, and seniors. TDIN associate membership includes organizations that provide outreach and other allied services to people who are homeless, marginally housed, or socially isolated.

TDIN is a member-based organization, which is trusteed by The Neighbourhood Group.

TDIN is a voice and a resource for the drop-in sector and communities.

 

Our Vision

To work toward a socially-just Toronto which is safe, healthy, and inclusive.

Our Mission

To enhance the capacity of Toronto's network of drop-in centres to improve the quality of life of people who participate in their services.

Our Values

The Toronto Drop-in Network and its members strive to be:

  • Community-driven and responsive;
  • Adaptable, innovative, and collaborative;
  • Respectful of equity and inclusion of TDIN members and participants;
  • Supportive of participant engagement in program design and delivery, and of participant self-determination.

Our Purpose

  • To promote standards of best practice in drop-in services;
  • To support drop-in workers’ professional development through training and tool development;
  • To increase the capacity of drop-ins to provide effective and appropriate services;
  • To provide a voice for drop-ins to advocate on issues that affect both drop-ins and their participants;
  • To employ strategies that meaningfully engage drop-in participants, and support opportunities for leadership;
  • To increase participant access to community services and supports.

Our Governance and Structure

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The Toronto Drop-In Network (TDIN) is an active member-based coalition of over 50 organizations that run at least 56 diverse drop-in centres across the city of Toronto. Our members work with people who are homeless, marginally housed, or socially isolated, including men, women, transgender and non-binary people, youth and seniors.
 
Toronto Drop-In Network acknowledges our lives and work takes place on the land of the ancestral Haudenosaunee and most recently the Mississauga of the New Credit. We give thanks for the privilege on living and working on this land, and stand with First Nations as the keepers of it. We also acknowledge the effects of colonialization and systemic oppression which has grievously impacted First Nations people, particularly in the context of our work.