Rural Frontenac Youth Program Celebrates $130,400 Trillium Grant

Mar 22, 2023

On Tuesday, March 14th at 2:00 pm Rural Frontenac Community Services Youth Program celebrated the $130,400 Resilient Communities Fund grant, which the organization received from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) in spring 2022 to support their Rural Youth Program. Over the last year this grant has allowed the redesign of the youth program and strengthening of fundraising capacity for Rural Frontenac Youth Program’s community programs.

This grant has allowed Rural Frontenac Community Services to provide a response to help youth reconnect with services and programs as the province opened up over the last year. It provided rural youth the opportunity to attend accessible, local, fun, relevant programs as they transitioned back to school from virtual learning over the last year.

"The impact of this Ontario Trillium Foundation grant cannot be overstated,” said Sarah McCullough, Youth Program Supervisor of Rural Frontenac Community Services. “This grant has allowed our youth program to offer new programs and access resources that were needed to support our youth as we emerged from the effects of the pandemic”.

“The mission of Rural Frontenac Community Services is to provide opportunities for our community to live rural life to the fullest. This grant has given us the capacity to support our youth, who are still recovering from the pandemic, to embrace rural life to the fullest.”

Last year, OTF invested nearly $209M into 2,042 community projects and partnerships.