Overview Eva’s Initiatives (Eva’s) acknowledges the land the organization stands on is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississauga’s of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. Eva’s also acknowledges that Tkaronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississauga’s of the Credit and the Williams Treaty signed with multiple Mississauga’s and Chippewa bands. Eva’s also acknowledges all Treaty peoples – including those who came here as settlers – as migrants either in this generation or in generations past – and those of us who came here involuntarily, particularly forcibly dis-planted Africans, brought here as a result of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery.

Eva’s is a proud Black legacy organization founded in 1989 by Eva Smith, a Jamaican immigrant, advocate and activist. Today, Eva’s is the second-largest shelter provider for youth betwe...