HEALTH: Learn to Run 5K in Only 8 Weeks
The 2018 Toronto Challenge takes place on Sunday June 10 and the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon will be on October 14, 2018. We are counting down the days until the big events and determined to fundraise even more money than in previous years for valuable JSS programs with the help of participants like you.
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JSS will participate in the 2017 Waterfront Marathon
The 18th Waterfront marathon sponsored by Scotia Bank will be held on October 22nd (Sunday). The event will consist of a 42 km full marathon, a 21km half marathon and a 5 km run. For those who prefer to walk, there are courses of 21 km and 5 km as well.
Upcoming Event: Lunch’n Learn with the Wynford Seniors Club & Seniors Conference
Japanese Social Services is very pleased to announce they teamed up with Momiji Health Care Society to apply for the Seniors Community Grant Program 2017-2018 offered by the Ontario Seniors’ Secretariat and were successful in obtaining funding.
JSS needs your support to save Konnichiwa Program (JSS’s Friendly Visiting Program)
Takanori Kuge; As is the case with every community, the Japanese Community in the GTA is rapidly aging, which means that there are a lot of people living in isolation due to aging, language barriers or health-related issues.
Chronicle of a Struggle with Illness: Escape from a Lifestyle Disease
Jimmy Kano; I woke from a haze with a gasp realizing I’d been stripped of my belongings and returned to the state under which I’d been born. I was laying on a bed in the ICU of an emergency hospital. They said I had been in a coma for close to 5 hours.
On Counselling
JSS has been providing counselling services to clients for almost three decades. Being the only available counselling and social work agency where services are offered in both English and Japanese in GTA or in Ontario, the issues that are brought forward for consultation, understandably, extend to all areas of the human experience.