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OSA Plays Host To Cabbagetown Youth Centre

By OSA News, 08/23/16, 4:00PM EDT

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The Ontario Soccer  Association recently welcomed athletes and coaches from the Cabbagetown Youth Centre (CYC), who had traveled to the centre to see the provincial facilities.

On hand to meet these youth was OSA President Ron Smale who gave them a tour of the facility and the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame. The kids then had the opportunity to play on the indoor turf with donated soccer balls from Umbro Canada.

The CYC was founded in 1972 as the Cabbagetown Boxing Club to provide at-risk youth with positive alternatives through sport and recreation, while encouraging ongoing education.

Over the past 39 years, the CYC has expanded to meet the growing needs of the community to provide a complete range of recreational, social and educational and skill development programs for ages ranging from newborns to seniors, while maintaining a specific focus on at-risk children and youth.

CYC’s mandate is to provide barrier-free access to a full range of programs otherwise not available to some of the most marginalized and high-need children, youth and families through the support and creation of sustainable programming to respond to gaps in services and combat risk factors.

As a result, the CYC has expanded from its original site by establishing three satellite sites in the heart of St. James Town, one of North America’s most densely populated and under serviced communities. CYC also operates programs at Rose Avenue Public School and Winchester Public School.

Smale attended Winchester Park to support the youth and community. 

"Thank you to the CYC for their continued investment in today's community youth and tomorrow's leaders," Smale said.