Employment services
Free Employment Ontario support for job search, career planning, employer connection and sustainable employment.
Explore employmentOne community. Many ways forward.
Hope starts here. Your next chapter starts with you.
From finding meaningful work to navigating life's challenges, HopeStart brings practical, compassionate support together—built around real people and the communities they call home.
Employment services are available through Employment Ontario. Other services have distinct eligibility, availability and provider information.
What we do
Different needs. Shared purpose.
Explore the pathway that fits your goals. Every service has its own responsibilities and next steps, connected by a commitment to seeing the whole person.
Mental health
Explore developing individual and group psychotherapy services, practitioner information and inquiries through our separate clinic.
Explore mental healthCommunity & life skills
Practical approaches to confidence, connection, independence, emotional wellness and everyday participation.
Explore community supportDigital solutions
An emerging initiative exploring better tools and workflows for organizations delivering human services.
Explore digital solutions
The HopeStart approach
There is more to a person than the challenge in front of them.
Work, wellbeing, confidence and everyday life are connected. We start by listening, understanding what matters and identifying practical steps—not fitting people into a predetermined path.
Our service history stretches from the Emotional Lifeskills program to decades of employment support. It continues to shape how we think about community connection, mental health and responsible innovation.
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Our New Dawn
Decades of purpose. A new horizon.
HopeStart's story began with Marsaye Treen's Emotional Lifeskills work, evolving around 1993 into decades of ODSP employment support. Today, we are building on that experience—strengthening our organizational foundations while exploring connected ways to help people and communities.
Follow our journeyReady for your next step?