Next Door Family Resources
Serving families with young children since 1981.

Next Door Family Resources provides nurturing environments within our community where parents, caregivers and young children can build relatonships to promote the well-being of themselves and their families.

NDFR operates two main program streams that together, provide much needed resources for thousands of adults and children in South Etobicoke.  With a health promotion focus, our goal as a Family Resource Program is to support families by providing information and referrals to community services while bringing families together in positive, enriching and caring environments.

Drop-in Programs
A place for you and your children to play together.

NDFR operates four drop-in programs in south Etobicoke.  Drop-in programs operate Monday to Friday, primarily in the mornings and are for children from birth to six years old accompanied by a parent or caregiver.   Activities at NDFR’s drop-in centres focus on enhancing the health and wellbeing of families and are organized by professional staff.

Child Care Registry
Helping parents find the right child care and supporting home child care providers.

The Child Care Registry is a referral service which helps parents and caregivers alike.  For parents, help is available on navigating through the child care system, locating licensed child care providers, where to look for unlicensed home child care providers, how to screen child care providers and how to establish/maintain the parent-caregiver relationship.  We support home child care providers in starting a child care business, advertising for clients, setting rates, planning activities for children and with information on how to become licensed.  NDFR operates a help line to provide parents and caregivers with a place to discuss their child care issues.

Welcome Message from the Executive Director
A healthy future for families in our community.

Welcome,

In 1981 the idea of starting a family resource program was born to two stay-at-home mums who had a shared need for companionship and support for themselves and their young children. They formed a small group with like-minded neighbours and got together as often as possible.

Soon after, they discovered that a great number of families in the neighbourhood shared their need too. It wasn’t long before their small group grew to a drop-in program and a network that helped families and child care providers with child care issues.

Fast forward to today and Next Door Family Resources has grown from those humble beginnings to meet the needs of thousands of parents, caregivers and children in the community.

We are delighted to continue to offer support to families and together with you, hope to do so for many years to come.

Welcome to our web site and to our ever growing community!

Regards,

Debbie Lupton