Five Save Life provides settlement support, application assistance, housing help, employment guidance, and one-on-one consultations — for every single parent who needs it.
"We believe no one should navigate the system alone. Every service we offer is confidential and delivered with dignity."
Get expert assistance with government forms, immigration paperwork, PR applications, citizenship, and benefit enrollment — in your language.
Find safe, affordable housing. We connect you with shelters, subsidized units, landlord negotiation, and emergency housing resources.
Résumé writing, interview coaching, credential recognition, job matching, and connection to employer networks across the GTA.
Professional advocates for housing rights, workplace discrimination, family law, tenant rights, and system navigation. Your voice, amplified.
Each new client will have an intake consultation. Our team gets to know you, your family, and your needs. Ongoing consultations are available with our counsellors to address mental health, emotional concerns, or simply to have a safe space — equipping you with tools to live a fulfilling, empowered life.
Advocacy and integrity are key fixtures in our services. Five Save Life translates and interprets English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Somali, and Urdu — helping clients communicate confidently with government bodies, schools, workplaces, and residences. All written translations come with an affidavit certifying accuracy.
We work with clients to understand housing needs and educate them about rent, home-sharing, and relocation options across Ontario. Five Save Life connects clients with shelters and appropriate housing, with exclusive access to our network of real estate agents and individual homeowners.
Finding a job is about empowerment and independence. We assess career goals, education levels, and the steps needed to find appropriate, secure employment — with workshops for resume building, interview preparation, and job-finding. Clients also get exclusive access to private employment services.
We assist clients with government and non-government applications — permanent residence, citizenship, passports, housing registration, case letters, and applications for government-supported services and programs. Each of our six regions has a specialist ready to help.
Five Save Life provides affordable psychotherapy sessions for single parents navigating stress, trauma, grief, or life transitions. Our qualified therapists offer a safe, confidential space to support your mental and emotional well-being — because a stronger you means a stronger family.
We've designed our process to be as simple and stress-free as possible, especially for those new to Canada.
Fill up the application, provide a copy of your Canadian Child Benefit, a copy of your driver's license, and pay the annual fee of $30 to funds@fivesavelife.org
A dedicated worker will assess your needs, explain your options, and create a personalized support plan — at no cost.
We navigate the system with you: applications, housing, jobs, legal support — every step of the way.
Step-by-step guide to applying for subsidized housing through the Ontario Centralized Waitlist — available in 8 languages.
Résumé templates, cover letter samples, and a list of GTA employers committed to hiring single parents and refugees.
Who qualifies, what documents you need, and how to enroll for Ontario's public health insurance — with a waiting period overview.
A comprehensive checklist for Permanent Residency and Canadian Citizenship applications — with IRCC links and processing time estimates.
CCB, ODSP, Ontario Works, GST/HST credit, and more — a plain-language breakdown of financial benefits for single parents and low-income families.
How to enroll children in TDSB/TCDSB schools, access ESL programs, adult education, and post-secondary pathways for single parents.
"When I arrived in Canada, I didn't know where to start. Five Save Life helped me with my work permit, found me housing within 6 weeks, and connected me to a job. They spoke Somali with me. For the first time, I felt like someone truly cared."
Book a confidential one-on-one consultation with a Five Save Life case worker. No judgment. Just support.
Five Save Life is an Ontario-based nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that single parents have equal access to the services and support they deserve — regardless of language, background, or status.
AODA-compliant services with multilingual support, plain language, and barrier-free access to everyone we serve.
We walk alongside clients — building confidence, knowledge, and independence at every step of their journey.
Our team reflects the communities we serve — multilingual, multicultural, and deeply rooted in respect.
Five Save Life is a non-profit, community-based organization that is committed to improving the lives of all single-parents and their dependants in Ontario. We execute our mission by providing single-parents in Ontario with resources and ongoing community support.
Five Save Life's vision is to accommodate and empower single-parents through fostering healthy family within the community, and removing barriers that inequitably contribute to the intersectional oppression faced by single-parent households.
Canada has begun to show a dramatic increase in the population of single-parents annually, leading to an exponential increase in the national population of single-parents. In 2016, Statistics Canada considered 1.7 million Canadians to be single-parents; in 2021 we watched that number rise to 1.83 million.
Five Save Life began its mission in January of 2019 to support the goals and needs of the rapidly growing population of single-parents in Ontario through providing a growing list of services such as translation and interpretation services, help finding a residence, job-finding assistance, help filling out applications, support starting your own business, and advocation for legal and social matters. We began our mission at home, in Mississauga, and as our community grew we branched outward towards other Ontario regions that need support and resources for single-parents. In less than two years, we have serviced nearly 2000 single-parent families across six regions of Ontario (Durham, York, Peel, Halton, Hamilton, and London). Our agency receives daily calls for help that are outside our provincial jurisdiction.
Our name, 'Five Save Life' is symbolic of the empowerment our organization represents. 'Five' represents our five fingers that we use to create action, and facilitate positive change in our lives. The first step towards independence is yours to take — you have the power to change your life in your own hands, the journey starts with you. Hands reach out for community, and we are there to greet you, walk alongside your journey, and support you in recognizing, achieving, and growing your goals for yourself and your family. Our ultimate goal at Five Save Life is to create a family within our community where clients can feel supported long after they no longer need direct support; we facilitate these opportunities for ongoing involvement through mentorship programs, volunteer opportunities and ongoing events.
Five Save Life has the ability to sustain quality support for our clients through generous community donations and government grants, but our organization is rapidly growing to address the increased need for single-parent specific services in Ontario. As Five Save Life looks to the future, we recognize and advocate for the need to expand our services federally and welcome all opportunities to help our community reach out far and wide to empower single-parents.
Help us continue providing services to those who need it most. Every contribution makes a difference.
