Located 30 minutes from Toronto, the Trails’ site has exclusive access to 142 acres of forest and lakes. The Trails lakeside site provides our participants with a residential setting, for adventure based activities such as: ropes course, canoeing, hiking, snowshoeing, skiing, and ice skating.
Trails represents a progressive model of education using a learning by doing approach that fosters in the youth a chance to realize their true potential in a safe and supportive environment. Our staff are highly skilled and come from a variety of backgrounds, but with one common focus – a dedication to the participants and a commitment to making a difference.
Our Staff are guides; while these young people are having fun, they are learning to work with others their age as well as with instructors and authority figures, to deal with personal challenges and to think for themselves. Staff offer the support, encouragement, guidance and attention these young people, with such unrealized potential, need.
Our reward is to see the potential of our participants realized. The programme’s success has been phenomenal with over 95% of our participants completing Trails and over 76% of our graduates last year going on to college or university. Only 24% of their school peers went on to higher education.