All iHELP trainings are grounded in client-centred, trauma-informed, and equity-based practice, with an emphasis on real-world application, prevention, and long-term stability. Our goal is to equip participants with the tools they need to reduce harm, prevent crisis, and build pathways toward safer, healthier, and more secure lives.
Training & Capacity Building at iHELP Centre
Practical training that builds skills, prevents crisis, and strengthens community stability.
iHELP Centre delivers practical, community-based training that strengthens skills, confidence, and knowledge among clients, volunteers, and frontline workers. Our training offerings focus on tax filing and financial access, harm reduction and overdose response, alcohol harm reduction, and housing stability, supporting individuals and communities to navigate essential systems safely, accurately, and with dignity.
Why Housing Application Training Matters in Toronto
In Toronto’s highly competitive housing system, receiving training on how to complete and regularly maintain a housing application is essential to prevent delays, loss of eligibility, and missed opportunities for stable, long-term housing.
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Supporting Pathways to Stable and Affordable Housing
Rent-Geared-to-Income (RGI) Housing Application Training helps individuals and families in Toronto understand and navigate the social housing system with clarity and confidence. The training covers eligibility, documentation, wait times, and the importance of keeping applications accurate and up to date. By reducing errors and confusion, the training supports housing stability and helps prevent missed opportunities for long-term affordable housing.
Building skills. Saving lives. Strengthening communities.
What Sets Us Apart
iHELP Centre offers practical, community-focused training designed to build confidence, knowledge, and real-world skills among frontline workers, volunteers, peers, and community members. Our training programs are grounded in equity, accessibility, and trauma-informed practice, recognizing the diverse experiences and realities of the communities we serve.
Our core training areas include tax filing and financial literacy, harm reduction and overdose response, and alcohol harm reduction. Each training stream combines evidence-based information with practical application, ensuring participants leave better prepared to respond with care, accuracy, and confidence.
Tax Filing Training focuses on building the capacity of volunteers and community organizations to support low-income individuals and families with safe, accurate, and respectful tax filing. This training emphasizes CRA compliance, confidentiality, and client-centred service delivery within community-based tax clinics.
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Strengthening Community-Based Tax Filing Support
Harm Reduction and Overdose Response Training equips participants with life-saving knowledge and skills to respond to overdoses and drug-related harms. Training covers overdose recognition, naloxone administration, safer use practices, and situational awareness, with a strong emphasis on dignity, non-judgment, and teamwork.
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Life-Saving Harm Reduction and Overdose Response Training
Alcohol Harm Reduction Training addresses alcohol use across diverse settings, including family and community environments. This training focuses on reducing harm, understanding patterns of use, supporting safer choices, and responding in ways that prioritize safety, well-being, and respect rather than punishment or stigma.