Casey House Toronto

01/09/2026

✨ Submissions for Art With Heart 2026 are now OPEN! ✨

Art With Heart, Canada’s most anticipated live charity art auction, brings together artists, collectors, and art lovers each October for an evening celebrating art and philanthropy in support of Casey House’s services for people living with and at risk of HIV.

If you are a Canadian visual artist, this is your chance to have your work considered by an expert curatorial committee and be part of something special!

📅 Deadline: March 2, 2026
👉 Find all the details and submit your application at artwithheart.ca

01/05/2026

Casey House would like to congratulate our friends Mark Bonham and Jane Darville for their appointment to the Order of Canada. The two have demonstrated an admirable commitment to bettering the lives of others. Mark has made an indelible contribution to the 2SLGBTQ+ community as a philanthropist and leader, with longstanding ties to Casey House as a donor and an acting member of our investment and Casey Awards committees. Jane served as our first executive director and founding board member during the height of the AIDS epidemic in Toronto. We are honoured to be a part of the respectable legacies of these two Canadians and celebrate each of the 80 new appointees.

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Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, has made 80 new appointments to the Order of Canada, including 6 Companions, 15 Officers and 59 Members.

12/31/2025

The 2024-2025 impact report is now live! ❄✨

While we wrapped up the calendar year in our Casey House countdown, we invite you to take a deeper dive into our milestones that took place during the fiscal year. Learn about our year-by-the-numbers, newly launched David’s Disco signature fundraising event, an anecdote from an SCS client, and more.

It is a privilege for us to provide compassionate care to people living with and at risk of HIV. Our work could not be achieved without a dedicated team of multidisciplinary staff that bring their expertise and warmth to work each day. Thank you to our community of clients, supporters, peers, and volunteers. who have made a huge impact on us. We wish you a safe and happy new year from all of us at Casey House.

Read more at https://impact.caseyhouse.ca/2024-25/

12/31/2025

For the final day of our Casey House Countdown, we’re going out with a bang and celebrating our new Indigenous sacred fire. This initiative was led by our Indigenous advisory committee and installed in our courtyard in June. Sacred fires are a key component of ceremonies, serving as a communication pathway to the ancestors when we burn to***co ties. Its warmth provides a space for gathering, feasting, commemoration, and celebration. We’ve held sacred fires for significant Indigenous dates, and the seasonal solstices. Casey House is proud to be able to incorporate sacred fires on-site to as an additional sacred medicine. featuring this fire in our interior courtyard next to our heart statue—this symbol of ferocity and life is sure to keep us warm all year round.

Happy New Year to everyone! We’ll see you in 2026.

12/30/2025

On the second-last day of the Casey House Countdown, we’re serving 2 hours of lunch. As a part of our food philosophy, we maintain that food is clinical care. A re-imagining with the tremendous efforts led by our data, strategy, and knowledge team alongside the kitchen services team, we were able to scale up our hot midday lunch program to serve more people over a longer period. Now, we serve around 300 homecooked lunches to outpatient clients and community members each weekday starting at noon.

Not only are there more meals, but lunch became a place to introduce clinical staff, services, and programs. A new team of social service workers were brought on to facilitate client registration, staff were invited to attend lunch to check in with clients and build relationships, peers give tours and overviews of our services, and of course, the fantastic volunteers serve the meals to clients. We are truly grateful to the entire team behind this new ecosystem of food, connection, and care.

To learn more about our lunch programs of kitchen services team, visit our website at caseyhouse.ca to read Reimagining lunch at Casey House.

12/29/2025

With 3 days left of the Casey House Countdown, we couldn’t forget the three amazing volunteers we featured earlier this year: Heather, Melanie, and Diana. These friendly folks represent just a few of those who have generously contributed so much time and heart to our clients here at Casey House. Across fundraising events, lunch service, and friendly visits with inpatient clients, we’re always happy to see these dedicated volunteers.

Volunteers make an enormous impact. We were also grateful to celebrate their dedication during our Hearts of Service ceremony, which commemorates volunteering milestones. Thank you to all the volunteers who filled our House with love this year!

To learn more about becoming a Casey House volunteer, visit caseyhouse.ca/volunteer

12/28/2025

At #4, we’re showcasing the four sacred medicines planted in our Love Family Healing Garden. This summer, we redesigned our rooftop garden to include four medicines used for smudging: sage, to***co, cedar, and sweet grass. These plants, arranged as a medicine wheel in a raised bed, are grown, harvested, and dried, before being added to our supply of sacred medicines for smudging. This project was supported by our Indigenous advisory committee and completed by the lovely garden consultants at Miinikaan. To learn more about the redesign of our rooftop Love Family Healing garden, read the blog post Going back to the roots of our Love Family Healing rooftop garden at caseyhouse.ca

12/27/2025

For #5 of the Casey House Countdown, we’re celebrating five productions of the play Casey & Diana in 2025!

Thank you for bringing of the story of Casey House across the country. We are incredibly grateful for Nick Green’s fictional recounting of the real-life visit from Princess Diana in 1991. It is an honour to be celebrated for this iconic moment in Canadian history and to share this light with audiences across the nation. A special shout out to our dear friend Andrew Kushnir, for directing three of these productions.

Casey House would like to sincerely thank every person who attended the show, the casts and crews, and each theatre staff member who helped to keep our stories alive.

Theatre Aquarius (Hamilton, ON)
Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre (Winnipeg, MB)
Neptune Theatre (Halifax, NS)
ArtsClub Theatre Company (Vancouver, BC)
Yes Theatre (Sudbury, ON)

12/26/2025

We’re halfway through our 12 days of Casey House Countdown, and for #6 we’re getting the house tidied up to unveil six new single-stall washrooms on our first floor. Major renovations began in the summer and were completed just before the end of the year, which was celebrated with a mini ceremonial “toilet-paper-ribbon” cutting. Having accessible, private, gender-neutral washrooms for clients, volunteers, peers, staff, and visitors is an essential amenity for hygiene, dignity, and comfort. Whether clients are sleeping rough, experience chronic illnesses or mobility challenges, or are simply in the building, these six new washrooms are a welcome addition to our first floor, especially during the busy lunch rush.

12/25/2025

#7 on the Casey House Countdown honours the care we provide for our inpatient clients seven days a week. That’s including weekends, holidays, and overnight, every night. Our inpatient unit provides sub-acute care, and clients are admitted for a variety of reasons including pre or post-surgery support, intensive but stabilized care, injury recovery, or end-of-life care. Our interdisciplinary team includes nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, a pharmacist, social workers, peers, and volunteers.

It can be difficult to be admitted to hospital during the holiday season, but we do our best to make sure their stay is comfortable. From intentionally designed rooms that feel like home, additional volunteer or outpatient programming, to special holiday meals from our kitchen services team—who provide three homecooked meals a day for each inpatient client.

To learn more about Casey House’s inpatient services, watch a walk through video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTLEvosGsCg

12/24/2025

At #8 of the Casey House Countdown, we’re reminding you that there are only 8 days left to donate and receive a 2025 tax receipt.

Casey House provides care and comfort for our clients all year round-- beyond the holidays. Your generosity is like a warm, healing hug. It helps provide comfort, nourishment, and dignity to people living with or at risk of HIV who need compassionate care. Even the things we take for granted, like a warm cup of coffee, a fresh set of clothing, or someone lending a listening ear can make a real difference. Give a healing hug that brings warmth and dignity. Your donation will make a real difference for our clients.

To donate, visit caseyhouse.ca

12/23/2025

For the ninth entry in our Casey House Countdown, we’re meeting you on the dance floor at 9 o’clock for the start of David’s Disco. Those who met under this year’s disco ball raised a dazzling $545,000 for critical health care services at Casey House. The evening included sparkles, swagger, an electrifying drag performance by Brooke Lynn Hytes, the rollerskating Melanin Skate Crew, and our amazing DJ who puts the ‘Phil’ in ‘philanthropy’.

We can’t wait to see you on the guest list for the next David’s Disco Saturday, March 28, 2026. Save us a dance?