Our intentions
Hidaayah House gives all youth and their families mental health support, crisis navigation and leadership development: low barrier, community led, and rooted in care.
“If we don’t love and support each other, who will?”
Our motto, and the reason we exist
No referral, no appointment, no right words needed. People come to us at an event, through a friend or in a DM, and we meet them there.
The people delivering care here are trusted, trained and from the same communities they serve. That isn’t a nice extra. That is the model.
We’re Muslim-founded and faith-rooted. Support here should feel familiar, and faith is always welcome in the room.
We don’t replace clinical care. We wrap around it with peers youth already trust, and we connect people to licensed services when they need more.
We mainly serve Black and Somali youth in Toronto, ages 16 to 29, and their families.
But our doors are open to any young person who needs support. In 2025, 93% of the people we served were from racialized backgrounds, which is the community we exist for.
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Every cohort builds the next one.
Cohort 2 of the Hidaayah Huddle is running now, October to December 2026, and Cohort 3 starts in the spring, so stay tuned. Our goal is 60 young people certified every year, and 264 youth are on our waitlist.
Huddle graduates run our youth-led crisis support and navigation line, so more young people get help from someone who gets it.
A Youth Advisory Council of graduates keeps our programs honest, current and shaped by the people they’re for.
Partners, funders, volunteers and youth: if this sounds like you, we’d love to talk.
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