Someone is hurt, a life is in danger, there is a fire, or a crime is happening. Police, fire and ambulance.
Call or text any hour if you are thinking of ending your life or cannot keep yourself safe. Free. A trained person answers.
Your city's help line. In Toronto it is open any hour and can find you an emergency shelter bed tonight and connect you to city services like Ontario Works (welfare). Peel, Halton and Durham have 311 too. York Region and Hamilton don't, so call 211 there.
Food, housing, welfare, legal help, mental health and more, anywhere in Ontario. Free, any hour, in many languages.
Boxing gets a young person through the door. Education, employability, support services and mentorship are the way out. Your gift pays for all of it, and for the safety that has to come first.
That message line is how your gift lands in Youth 12–17 and nowhere else.
Straight talk on receipts: we’re an incorporating not-for-profit, and official charitable tax receipts aren’t available until CRA registration completes. Corporate sponsorships don’t need receipts; they’re a business expense either way.
About House of Brass →A standing e-transfer of $25/month with HOB YOUTH in the message keeps one youth in safe, certified programming. Set it once in your banking app.
Put your company’s name behind Youth 12–17: session sponsorship, gym-wall signage, program naming. Talk to us.
New or clean used kit, printing, trades and services. Tell us what you have.
Certified coaches, mentors, drivers, grant writers. Everyone working with youth or vulnerable adults completes a vulnerable sector check; we walk you through it. Raise your hand.
Gloves, headgear, wraps and mouthguards for youth who can’t buy their own, inspected, logged and replaced on schedule.
Boxing Ontario certification, first aid and CPR, and Safe Sport training for every coach on the floor.
Liability coverage and Level 3 vulnerable sector screening for everyone with access to youth, in place before the first session.
Tutoring support, reading time and the mentors who sit with a kid before training starts.
Job-readiness, first-job connections through our business network, and referrals to the social, medical and legal support a family needs.