It's a New Day- Breakfast Program

Oakrun Bakeries :: Hamilton Food Share :: City of Hamilton :: CRIEDA ::
Wesley Gozdek -Halidiman North Ministerial Outreach :: Paul & Laurine Evans :: West Hamilton Fortinos ::
Student Nutrition Program :: Breakfast for Learning ::
Daily Food Sponsors:: Monday- Gerald & Deborah Stulen
Wednesday Christ Church Cathedral
Friday- Martha Van Niekerk Community Donors

Living Rock’s “It’s A New Day” Breakfast Program provides street involved youth with an opportunity to start the day with a nutritious meal.  The Breakfast Program is “more than just a meal” by providing youth with a safe environment for youth to connect with staff and begin setting personal goals and action plans.  The Breakfast Program has an onsite Housing Support Worker, Dental Hygienist, Ontario Works worker and provides access to emergency supports including shower, phone, clothing and food bank.

Breakfast youth have the opportunity to do activities for incentives such as hygiene products, gloves, hats and socks.  Weekly speakers help to develop a bridge to the community.  The Breakfast Program also has onsite partnerships with the Adult Basic Education Association, Alternatives for Youth, and the City of Hamilton who provide a weekly prenatal group.  Youth can also attend the YMCA two mornings a week through Breakfast.

Breakfast, as an open access program often serves as a first point of contact with street involved youth. It is a recruiting ground for other Living Rock Programs including the Rock Resources work-to-earn program, GPS and TRI-Rock. Over104 Breakfast youth accessed the work-to-earn Rock Resource Program.

The Breakfast program would not be the success it is without the help of dedicated students, who are learning as they work, volunteers and financial supporters.

The mission of the Breakfast Program is to provide a "safe environment, where street-involved youth can receive a hot nutritious meal and plan for their day."