Community Trips
Throughout our Neighbourhood Programs, Dixon Hall incorporates the opportunity for people to leave their inner city environment and broaden their horizons.
In the case of our Seniors Services, outings can range from weekly shopping trips in our van to a day trip to the Scarborough Bluffs. The services to our seniors allow them to age in place and avoid living in institutions. The flip side of this important improvement to the quality of life for our seniors is the potential for isolation or ‘cabin fever’. Consequently, the outings arranged by our staff are vitally important.
In the case of our young people, our Music School and Children & Youth programs plan outings that take young people well out of the City. Be it a music camp at a farmhouse or a camping trip to a provincial park, the change to the participants is often dramatic. Our Youth Worker, Kenneth, talks about how youth who live behind a tough inner city mask can shed the posturing and become totally engaged in camping activities. He describes the experience as transforming and so important in initiating changes of behavior