The City of Toronto has Community Development Officers (CDO) that can work with you, your neighbourhood or organization on community planning, community safety, community infrastructure and more. Find the most appropriate Community Development Officer below.
Community Coordination Plan
The Community Coordination Plan (CCP) was developed by the City of Toronto and United Way Greater Toronto to ensure coordination and communication with more than 400 community-based agencies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This new model of partnership has implemented service coordination and hyper local solutions across ten geographic clusters and two non-geographic clusters to meet the needs of Torontonians and will continue to evolve beyond COVID-19 response efforts.
| Neighbourhood Improvement Areas & Emerging Neighbourhoods | Community Coordination Plan Cluster | Community Development Officer | Contact Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neighbourhood Improvement Areas: Humber Summit, Humbermede, Black Creek, Glenfield-Jane Heights, Downsview-Roding-CFB, York University Heights | Black Creek Humber Summit Cluster | Melody Brown (pronouns: she/her) |
416-894-3819 |
| Neighbourhood Improvement Area: Regent Park | Downtown East Cluster | Rolfe Santos (pronouns: he/him) |
416-688-5330 |
| Neighbourhood Improvement Area: South Parkdale | Downtown West Cluster | Rolfe Santos (pronouns: he/him) |
416-688-5330 |
| Neighbourhood Improvement Areas: Flemingdon Park, Thorncliffe Park, Victoria Village, Oakridge, Taylor Massey | East York Don Valley Cluster | Rebecca Stevens (pronouns: she/her) |
647-824-1675 |
| Neighbourhood Improvement Areas: Elms-Old Rexdale, Thistletown-Beaumoud Heights, Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown, Kingsview Village-The Westway
Emerging Neighbourhoods: Humber Heights-Westmount |
North Etobicoke Cluster | Sherry Phillips (pronouns: she/her) |
416-892-3119 |
| Neighbourhood Improvement Area: N/A | South Etobicoke Cluster | Sherry Philips (pronouns: she/her) |
416-892-3119 |
| Emerging Neighbourhoods: Malvern West, Malvern East, Steeles, L'Amoreaux West, East L'Amoreaux | North Scarborough Cluster | Adel Merheb (pronouns: he/him) |
416-276-8930 |
| Neighbourhood Improvement Areas: Oakridge, West Hill, Morningside, Scarborough Village, Woburn, Eglinton East, Kennedy Park, Ionview
Emerging Neighbourhoods: Dorset Park |
South Scarborough Cluster | Adel Merheb (pronouns: he/him) |
416-276-8930 |
| Neighbourhood Improvement Areas: Weston, Mount Dennis, Beechborough-Greenbrook, Keelesdale-Eglinton West, Rustic, Rockcliffe-Smythe, Weston-Pelham Park | York Weston Pelham Cluster | Melody Brown (pronouns: she/her) |
416-894-3819 |
| Emerging Neighbourhoods: Westminster-Branson, Yorkdale-Glen Park, Englemount-Lawrence | North York Cluster | Rebecca Stevens (pronouns: she/her) |
647-824-1675 |
Toronto Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy
The Toronto Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy (TSNS) is the City of Toronto’s action plan for ensuring that each of our 158 neighbourhoods can succeed and thrive. TSNS supports healthy communities across Toronto by partnering with residents, businesses and agencies to invest in people, services, programs and facilities in 33 Neighbourhood Improvement Areas and eight Emerging Neighbourhoods.
| Neighbourhood/Area | Community Development Officer/Worker | Contact Information |
| Scarborough | Olanike Solomon
(Pronouns: she/her) |
437-236-1869 |
| Downtown | Richard Kirwan
(Pronouns: he/him) |
647-268-5548 |
| North York | Wayne Robinson
(Pronouns: he/him) |
416-206-1553 |
| Etobicoke York | Janvere Lyder
(Pronouns: she/her) |
647-216-2152 |
| TSNS Advisory Group | Sahra Ibrahim
(Community Development Worker) (Pronouns: she/her) |
437-575-7962 |
| Regent Park | Sara Tadesse
(Community Development Worker) (Pronouns: she/her) |
416-722-4894 |
The City of manages a variety of youth development programs including those focused on employment.
Mikael KhalamEmail: Mikael.Khalam@toronto.ca Phone: 437-882-0150 Youth Employment Partnerships |
Brandon HayEmail: Brandon.Hay@toronto.ca Phone: 437-288-7194 Youth Equity & Violence Prevention Program Lead: Community Healing Project |
Siman IbrahimEmail: Siman.Ibrahim@toronto.ca Phone: 416-455-6861 Youth Equity & Violence Prevention Program Lead: Restorative Justice Programs |
Annakim FfrenchEmail: Annakim.Ffrench@toronto.ca Phone: 647-280-7962 Youth Equity & Violence Prevention Program Lead: Restorative Justice Programs |
Phillip Chuck JrEmail: Phillip.Chuck@toronto.ca Phone: 437-239-8766 Youth Equity & Violence Prevention Program Lead: Integrated Supports for Justice-Involved Youth |
John BerlinEmail: John.Berlin@toronto.ca Phone: 647-268-0138 Toronto Youth Job Corps
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The Violence Intervention & Support Unit (formerly Community Crisis Response Program) works across Toronto providing support and resources to communities impacted by violent and traumatic incidents. .
| West District | Central District | East District |
| Saleha Nahdi
647-210-8189 |
Abdi Hussein
416-918-6437 |
Anah Aslam
437-655-6846 |
| Temesgen Ghebremicael
Temesgen.Ghebremicael@toronto.ca 416-206-0439 |
Stephanie Mazerolle
Stephanie.Mazerolle@toronto.ca 416-526-0588 |
Shannon Ashman
416-566-7239 |
| Chelsea Davis
437-226-7203 |
Olivia Wilks
416-302-6430 |
Jerome Leach
437-552-8582 |
| Jermal Humphrey
437-238-7730 |
Abel Tesfaldet
437-551-0297 |
Nneka Perry
437-533-6972 |
| Mikaila Morales
416-454-2863 |
Sharon Jones
416-454-3297 |
Christene Lewis
437-551-1173 |
| Trisha Morrison
416-454-1305 |
Management
| Stephen Linton
Manager 437-238-9521 |
Kevin Bourne
Supervisor 416-677-5094 |
| Destiny Guthrie
Supervisor 437-385-1094 |
Joya Mukherjee
Supervisor 437-218-0534 |
Community Violence Wellness and Recovery Project
The Community Violence Wellness and Recovery Project connects individuals and communities impacted by community violence to community agencies that provide culturally appropriate and trauma-informed well-being and recovery supports
| West District | Central District | East District |
| Ama Ackon
647-308-5865 |
Katherine Marhong
437-331-2637 |
Emad Alarashi
437-928-5816 |
In housing-at-risk situations, the STAR mandate is to:
Clara GanemtoreManager Email: Clara.Ganemtore@toronto.ca Phone: 416-394-4042 |
Matthew CarrolSupervisor Email: Matthew.Carrol@toronto.ca Phone: 437-552-3168 |
Jake MitchellCommunity Development Officer Email: jake.mitchell@toronto.ca Phone: 437-655-5587 |
Julia FremeauCommunity Development Officer Email: julia.fremeau@toronto.ca Phone: 437-833-3834 |
Furthering Our Community by Uniting Services (FOCUS) is an innovative, collaborative risk driven approach to Community Safety and Wellbeing co-led by the City of Toronto, United Way Toronto and Toronto Police Service that aims to reduce risk, harm, crime, victimization and improve community resiliency and wellbeing. The model builds off of international best practices and lessons learned through the The Violence Intervention and Response Unit (formerly Community Crisis Response Program).
Clara GanemtoreManager Email: Clara.Ganemtore@toronto.ca Phone: 416-394-4042 |
Matthew CarrolSupervisor Email: Matthew.Carrol@toronto.ca Phone: 437-552-3168 |
Omar SyblissCommunity Development Officer Email: Omar.Sybbliss@toronto.ca Phone: 416-677-5461 |
Sophia BrownCommunity Development Officer Email: Sophia.Brown@toronto.ca Phone: 437-233-6659 |
Ubah IdleCommunity Development Officer Email: ubah.idle@toronto.ca Phone: 647-308-5604 |
Daika FarahCommunity Development Officer Email: daika.farah@toronto.ca Phone: 416-274-8530 |
Community Development Officer
Email: pragash.antonipillai@toronto.ca
Phone: 437-595-8324
TO Wards Peace (TWP) aims to increase effective interventions to mitigate violence in Toronto using a risk-driven, multi-sectoral model that is driven by a community-centric, public health approach.
Scerena OfficerManager Email: Scerena.Officer@toronto.ca Phone: 416-886-7542 |
Kecia RichardsonSupervisor Email: Kecia.Richardson@toronto.ca Phone: 647-462-6053 |
Abdi DayrCommunity Development Officer Email: Abdi.Dayr@toronto.ca Phone: 437-214-4578 |
Leigh Ann AsareCommunity Development Officer Email: LeighAnn.Asare@toronto.ca Phone: 437-772-5192 |
Daisy SagguCommunity Development Officer Email: Daisy.Saggu@toronto.ca Phone: 437-829-4083 |
Shane JeremiahCommunity Development Officer Email: Shane.Jeremiah@toronto.ca Phone: 416-270-1387 |
Efia Tekyi-AnnanCommunity Development Officer Email:Efia.Tekyi-Annan@toronto.ca Phone: 416-993-9590 |