Start Me Up Niagara offers services and programs to individuals who face significant life challenges to provide them with opportunities to stabilize, participate and grow.
At Start Me Up Niagara, we offer services to support people facing significant challenges such as poverty, homelessness, unemployment, disabilities, addictions and mental health issues.
Our goal is to provide opportunities for these individuals to help them increase their level of self-sufficiency and improve their quality of life.
Our services range from community lunches, health care, and art activities and gardening program, to employment services. Together, we are working to build a community where all are included.
Start Me Up Niagara is a not-for-profit organization and registered charity. Charity Registration Number: 896011715RR0001
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Start Me Up Niagara works with individuals facing significant life challenges such as addiction, mental illness, poverty, homelessness and unemployment. We provide opportunities to improve health, increase community integration and support employment.
A society where all people are included, healthy, and self-sufficient.
Start Me Up Niagara operates on the following pillars to meet our mission of providing individuals who face significant life challenges with opportunities to stabilize, participate and grow.
Stabilization is the first step toward an improved quality of life. Includes meeting basic needs of food, clothing, shelter, income, health care and social interaction.
Participation is about building natural social supports, joining an activity, volunteering, trying something new. All improve community integration levels and maintain stability. Start Me Up Niagara relies on the support of more than 300 volunteers each year.
Growth is about setting goals, developing social and work skills, earning income, and moving toward self sufficiency and a better quality of life.
Start Me Up Niagara currently resides on the traditional home to many First Nations, Metis and Inuit Peoples. The land is the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples, many of whom continue to live and work here today. This land acknowledgement is important: it reminds us that our great standard of living is directly related to the resources and friendship of Indigenous people in our community – and indeed across the nations.