Ways to Help
There is a gap in Canada’s mental health system that should not exist.
Every year, thousands of young adults living with serious mental illness are discharged from hospitals back into lives they are not yet ready to return to.
Not because they are unwilling to recover.
Because the care they need does not exist here.
In Canada, there are no long-term rural residential treatment and recovery programs for young adults living with serious mental illness.
Eli’s Place is working to change that. This work is already underway.
On a healing farm in Guelph, Ontario, Eli’s Place is building a therapeutic community grounded in clinical care, meaningful work, shared responsibility, and long-term recovery support.
There is nowhere else in Canada like it.
Your support helps make this possible.
Make a one-time gift
A one-time gift helps Eli’s Place continue building the foundation for a new model of mental health recovery care in Canada. Your donation helps create an environment where young adults living with serious mental illness can rebuild stability, confidence, and connection over time. For many families, support like this has simply not existed here before.
Become a monthly donor
Long-term recovery depends on consistency. So does a place like Eli’s Place. Monthly donors provide dependable support that helps sustain the daily life of the community — the structure that allows recovery to unfold gradually and realistically over time. Monthly giving also helps Eli’s Place plan ahead, grow responsibly, and continue building a model of care designed around long-term recovery rather than short-term crisis response alone.
Make a tribute gift
A tribute gift is a meaningful way to honour someone whose life has been touched by mental illness, recovery, or care. Your donation helps Eli’s Place expand access to long-term recovery support for young adults in Canada. You can also send a personalized eCard in honour or memory of someone important to you. Your donation amount will remain confidential.
Start a Fundraiser
DIY Fundraising Event Toolkit
Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is bring other people into the conversation. Fundraising for Eli’s Place helps build support for a model of care many families have spent years wishing existed. To help make it easy, we’ve created a DIY Fundraising Event Toolkit with ideas, resources, and materials to help you get started.
Donate securities
Donating appreciated securities or mutual funds is one of the most tax-effective ways to support Eli’s Place. By donating directly instead of selling first, you can avoid capital gains tax while helping support the continued growth of long-term mental health recovery care in Canada.
Leave a gift in your will
Some gifts continue helping people long after we’re gone. By remembering Eli’s Place in your estate plans, you help carry this work forward for future generations of young adults and families looking for better paths through mental illness and recovery.
Subscribe to recovery matters
Not every act of support starts with a donation.
Recovery Matters is for people who want to better understand serious mental illness, the gaps in our current system, and the work being done to build a different kind of recovery care in Canada.
You’ll receive thoughtful articles, lived-experience perspectives, research, and updates from Eli’s Place — not just to stay informed, but to stay connected to the people, ideas, and progress behind this work.
Does your employer offer a workplace giving program?
Thousands of Canadian employers do: from matching employee donations to United Way campaigns that can be directed to Eli’s Place. These programs may be the easiest way to give and to give more. Ask your Human Resources Department what’s available.
See how others are helping Eli’s Place take root.
From community events to personal fundraisers, people are finding their own ways to support this work. Explore stories, ideas, and examples from others, helping build momentum for Eli’s Place.
Prefer to make a gift by cheque?
Please make your cheque payable to Eli’s Place and mail to 2 Edith Drive, Suite #703, Toronto, Ontario M4R 2H7. A charitable tax receipt will be issued for all donations of $10.00 or more.
Wish to discuss your gift?
