200 Wellesley St. East
Toronto, Ontario M4X 1G3
Monday - Saturday:
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
416 964 6657
#108, 240 Wellesley St E
Toronto, Ontario, M4X 1G5
Monday - Saturday:
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
416 964 6657*240
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Nalini Pandalangat, Director of Newcomer Health & Specialty Services, Sherbourne Health, is a Registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. She completed her PhD at the Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, and has extensive experience leading projects and programs in the community health, hospital and international development sectors. Her PhD was on cultural influences on help-seeking, treatment and support for mental health problems in the Sri Lankan Tamil community. Her research and program interests are focused on immigrant mental health, gender and health, cultural competence, health care access and health equity. Currently she is part of a core team working on the development and dissemination of a refugee mental health framework.Nalini loves writing poetry, watching movies, having lively debates with close friends and hanging out with her family comprising her partner, twins, mom and beagle Kody.
Sasha Kiran Cragg-Gore is a Toronto native who went to high school just down the street from St James Town at Jarvis CI. After getting an undergrad and law degree from McGill University in Montreal, he moved back to Toronto. He currently works at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada as a Board Member. He has previously worked as a lawyer in the legal aid system representing low-income clients in the areas of immigration, refugee, criminal and family law. He has volunteered in various capacities including the sponsorship of a refugee family from Syria and giving free legal advice to the LGBTQ population through the 519 legal clinic.I have been involved with the St. Jamestown Steering Committee since it’s formation and am proud to call St. Jamestown home since the time I arrived in Canada. I have been involved in many facets of service to the committee ranging from taking minutes, organizing and running fundraising events, assisting sewing classes and doing outreach support. I am also a mother of two sons who were both born and raised in this community.Maryana Tanyashyna has lived in St. James Town for 10 years. She is an experienced Human Resources professional. She is passionate about community development and has been serving on the St. James Town Community Corner committee for the past few years. Maryana is happy to lend her skills and experiences to improve the lives of St. James Town community members.Yogarajah is a resident leader in the neighbourhood of St. James Town with a commitment to neighbourhood improvement, resident empowerment and accountable service delivery. He serves as the co-chair of the Steering Committee of The Corner. He partakes in many initiatives at The Corner and beyond like running an English Language Class for newcomers to Canada , being a peer educator for a diabetes prevention and health promotion initiative in St. James Town, supporting the community as a resident ambassador for St. James Town, contributing as a safety ambassador, being a spokesperson for the community, etc.
Lovlyn has lived in St Jamestown for the last seven years. She has been a member of the steering committee for just over a year. Lovlyn’s biggest contribution as a member of the steering committee has been to share her observations of the various multicultural experiences in the community. She has been able to identify and empathize with community members and their struggles and contribute in whatever way she can for the well being of the community.
In her spare time, Lovlyn volunteers at the Toronto Public Library in the Leading to Reading program. She loves to read, write, listen to music, take long walks and volunteer for gardening in the neighborhood. She also has many creative pursuits like photography, writing and storytelling to name a few.
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The Older Adult Consortium is a sub committee of the SPN. The Consortium comprises of representatives from service providers, local senior group leaders and residents of St. James Town that work together, to identify and support older adults living in the community.
Providing monthly workshops at 55 Bleecker, conducting a number of events for seniors, having joint meetings with all groups serving seniors, launched an interpretation project to remove barriers to participation and engaged seniors in the development of programs and outreach initiatives.
The Older Adult Consortium can be reached at 416 458 9616. Read More …
In May 2011, the St. James Town Community Corner at 200 Wellesley opened its doors. The Corner is a fully accessible set of offices, meeting spaces, program rooms and community kitchen dedicated to local initiatives and services to benefit the neighbourhood. This collaboration between residents, public and private funders and service providers is a unique St. James Town community success story.
Operating out of the Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) building, at 200 Wellesley St. E., the facility was formed by a local steering committee after consulting with the community, and it is the result of more than five years of effort by local resident volunteers in partnership with a number of service providers. All are committed to improve access for St. James Town residents to services, supports and opportunities to meet, plan and build a strong, healthy neighbourhood. Read more …
Health Access St. James Town (HASJT) is a pioneering community based model of localized service coordination and collaboration, where highly skilled and friendly intake workers connect residents to health and social services of 15+ different partner organizations and beyond, through a single intake process. This intake happens at The St. James Town Community Corner (The Corner) and 5 other sites in the St. James Town neighbourhood.
The Corner, an inclusive community hub, is the primary site from which HASJT operates. This has strengthened the this localized model with The Corner being the “hardware” and HASJT, the “software”. Read More …
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