The City of Toronto has Community Development Officers (CDO) that can work with you, your neighbourhood or organization on community planning, community safety, Tower Renewal and more. Find the most appropriate Community Development Officer below.

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.

The Toronto Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy 2020 (TSNS 2020) is the City of Toronto’s action plan for ensuring that each of our 158 neighbourhoods can succeed and thrive. TSNS 2020 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 Improvement Areas & Emerging Neighbourhoods Community Coordination Plan Cluster Community Development Officer Contact Information
Community Coordination Plan & Toronto Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy Community Development Officers
Neighbourhood Improvement Areas: Humber Summit, Humbermede, Black Creek, Glenfield-Jane Heights, Downsview-Roding-CFB, York University Heights Black Creek Humber Summit Cluster Janvere Lyder
(pronouns: she/her)
647-216-2152

Janvere.Lyder@toronto.ca

Neighbourhood Improvement Area: Regent Park Downtown East Cluster Richard Kirwan
(pronouns: he/him)
647-268-5548

Richard.Kirwan@toronto.ca

Neighbourhood Improvement Area: South Parkdale Downtown West Cluster Tonya Darko
(pronouns: she/her)
416-320-8636

Tonya.Darko@toronto.ca

Neighbourhood Improvement Areas: Flemingdon Park, Thorncliffe Park, Victoria Village, Oakridge, Taylor Massey East York Don Valley Cluster Edna Ali
(pronouns: she/her)
416-737-5733

Edna.Ali@toronto.ca

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

Sherry.Phillips@toronto.ca

Neighbourhood Improvement Area: N/A South Etobicoke Cluster Wayne Robinson
(pronouns: he/him)
416-206-1553

Wayne.Robinson@toronto.ca

Emerging Neighbourhoods: Malvern West, Malvern East, Steeles, L’Amoreaux West, East L’Amoreaux North Scarborough Cluster Blaine Felix
(pronouns: he/him)
437-882-4212

Blaine.Felix@toronto.ca

Neighbourhood Improvement Areas: Oakridge, West Hill, Morningside, Scarborough Village, Woburn, Eglinton East, Kennedy Park, Ionview

Emerging Neighbourhoods: Dorset Park

South Scarborough Cluster Rolfe Santos
(pronouns: he/him)
416-688-5330

Rolfe.Santos@toronto.ca 

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

Melody.Brown@toronto.ca

Emerging Neighbourhoods: Westminster-Branson, Yorkdale-Glen Park, Englemount-Lawrence North York Cluster Rosemary Bell
(pronouns: she/her)
416-889-1285

Rosemary.Bell@toronto.ca

The City of manages a variety of youth development programs including those focused on employment.

 

Veronica Simic

Phone: 416-616-6590
Email: Veronica.Simic@toronto.ca

Youth Employment Partnerships

Brandon Hay

Phone: 437-288-7194
Email: Brandon.Hay@toronto.ca

Youth Equity & Violence Prevention

Program Lead: Community Healing Project

Said Abdi

Phone: 416-558-1192

Email: Said.Abdi@toronto.ca

Youth Equity & Violence Prevention

Program Lead: Enhanced Restorative Justice Programs

Annakim Ffrench

Phone: 647-280-7962

Email: Annakim.Ffrench@toronto.ca

Youth Equity & Violence Prevention

Program Lead: Restorative Justice Programs

Phillip Chuck Jr

Phone: 437-239-8766

Email: Phillip.Chuck@toronto.ca

Youth Equity & Violence Prevention

Program Lead: Integrated Supports for Justice-Involved Youth

Siman Ibrahim

Phone: 437-248-0281

Email: Siman.Ibrahim@toronto.ca

Youth Equity & Violence Prevention

Program Lead: Community PEERS

 

The CCRP team supports communities with the development of safety networks that create neighbourhood strategies which focus on Crisis Intervention, Crisis Prevention, and Crisis Preparation. When communities have been impacted by violent and traumatic incidents, the CCRP further supports communities with the recovery and healing process.

Scerena Officer

Manager
416-886-7542
Scerena.Officer@toronto.ca

Kevin Bourne

Supervisor
416-677-5094
Kevin.Bourne@toronto.ca

Emad Alarashi

Community Development Officer
437-928-5816
Emad.Alarashi@toronto.ca

Temesgen Ghebremicael

Community Development Officer
416-206-0439
Temesgen.Ghebremicael@toronto.ca

Katherine Marhong

Community Development Officer
437-331-2637
Katherine.Marhong3@toronto.ca

David Channer

Community Development Officer
416-258-3068
David.Channer@toronto.ca

Saleha Nahdi

Community Development Officer
647-210-8189
Saleha.Nahdi@toronto.ca

Jeff Roulston

Community Development Officer
416-648-3814
Jeff.Roulston@toronto.ca

Stephanie Mazerolle

Community Development Officer
416-526-0588
Stephanie.Mazerolle@toronto.ca

Abdifatah Hussein

Community Development Officer
416-918-6437
Abdi.Hussein@toronto.ca

Anah Aslam

Community Development Officer
437-655-6846
Anah.Aslam@toronto.ca

 

SPIDER’s mission is to reduce the recurrence of risks and promote the safe inclusion of vulnerable Torontonians in their communities by ensuring that:

  • the response of City of Toronto Divisions is coordinated
  • community health care, social and community services are made available
  • operational and system level reforms are identified and promoted to eliminate future issues

Scerena Officer

Manager
Phone: 416-886-7542
Email: Scerena.Officer@toronto.ca

Kecia Richardson

Supervisor
Phone: 647-462-6053
Email: Kecia.Richardson@toronto.ca

Sophia Brown

Phone: 437-233-6659
Email: Sophia.Brown@toronto.ca

Belinda Batista

Phone: 437-655-5587
Email: Belinda.Batista@toronto.ca

 

Furthering Our Community by Uniting Services (FOCUS) is an innovative Community Safety and Well-Being Initiative co-led by the City of Toronto, United Way Toronto and Toronto Police Service that aims to reduce crime, victimization and improve community resiliency and well-being. The model builds off of lessons learned through the Community Crisis Response Program.

Scerena Officer

Manager
Community Safety & Wellbeing
Phone: 416-886-7542
Email: Scerena.Officer@toronto.ca

Kecia Richardson

Supervisor
Phone: 647-462-6053
Email: Kecia.Richardson@toronto.ca

Evon Smith

Coordination Manager
United Way Greater Toronto
Phone: 416-559-1829
Email: esmith@uwgt.org

Sgt Brian Smith

Toronto Police Service
Phone: 416-808-0145
Email: Brian.Smith@torontopolice.on.ca

 

In January 2015, Social Development, Finance and Administration restructured and created a new Tower Renewal Program with a greater focus on partner collaboration and implementation of Tower Renewal and Community Revitalization mandates.

Rolfe Santos

Phone: 416-993-9590
Email: Rolfe.Santos@toronto.ca

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.

Kecia Richardson

Supervisor
Phone: 647-462-6053
Email: Kecia.Richardson@toronto.ca

Charlton Elliott

Phone: 437-214-4578

Email: Charlton.Elliott@toronto.ca

Tricia Clarke

Phone: 416-993-9590

Email: Tricia.Clarke@toronto.ca

Abdi Dayr

Phone: 437-218-0534

Email: Abdi.Dayr@toronto.ca

Shane Jeremiah

Community Resource & Engagement Worker

Phone: 416-270-1387

Email: Shane.Jeremiah@toronto.ca