our history
BUILDING STRONG AND VIBRANT COMMUNITIES, 1990 – 2025
Youth at PEACH are experiencing compound challenges such as housing instability, academic disruption, or disengagement, contact with the justice system, family breakdown, poverty, homelessness and precarious shelter, trauma and violence, mental health challenges and addiction. PEACH works to enhance equity for the city’s most historically disadvantaged residents, employing social determinants of health approach to tackle marginalization through a comprehensive approach to well-being at the individual, family, and community scales. By emphasizing the principles of emotional intelligence and civic engagement, in addition to intensive individual support, PEACH offers a trauma-informed and asset-based approach, focusing on building capacity for self-determination according to the unique needs, aspirations and challenges of individuals and the community at large.
2025 will mark the 35th Anniversary of the organization.
THE EARLY YEARS: 1990-1998
PEACH was a partner in community development in Jane-Finch, through Black Creek Anti-Drug Focus Community Coalition. The Coalition worked towards enhancing community capacity and safety and addressing alcohol and drug abuse. Activities included a community newspaper in five languages, grassroots training in community issues, Community Health/ ARAPO (Association for the Reduction of Alcohol Promotion in Ontario), Coalition Against Neighbourhoods, and a Community Banking Project.