About Us

What We Do

Success Beyond Limits (SBL) is an education-based organization that supports youth along their educational journeys toward success. We do this work primarily through our SBL Youth Space, located inside Westview Secondary School in Jane and Finch, which is open Monday to Friday. We also offer high-quality, comprehensive programming throughout the school year and summer months.

Our Mission

Our mission is to improve educational outcomes, expand possibilities, and support youth in Jane and Finch along their individual paths to success.

Our Values

Collaborative

Community Based

Flexibility

Youth-LED

Our History

2010s

SBL was established in the community for the first time, building on an earlier initiative known as Caring Village. It emerged in response to community-identified needs and a shared recognition that local schools needed to better support young people and their families. This work was made possible through our founding partnership with the Faculty of Education at York University.

Youth Space opens for the first time (2010)

Exposure stream opens with March Break Career Exploration Program (2010)

SBL expands post-secondary exposure by taking young people from Jane and Finch to visit Harvard University and attend the Black Policy Conference (2015)

2020s

SBL offers unprecedented levels of support provided throughout the pandemic, an which was in itself an unprecedented time for our community

SBL offers its Summer Program virtually throughout the pandemic still finding a way to offer credits and support students through a time of crisis.

Jane Finch Social Innovation Hub @ York University opens (2020)

The Community

SBL’s model and mandate are rooted in the Jane and Finch community. Our work remains deeply local while also looking at the bigger picture of how young people are supported across schools, services, and systems. Community-based knowledge is central to SBL; we value it through our staff, teachers, mentors, and mentees. At SBL, community is a verb.

Collaborative

SBL is built on a horizontal rather than hierarchical model, we make decisions and move together as a community.

Community Based

We value the knowledge and values, experiences and capacities of our community.

Flexibility

If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that flexibility is core and vital to remaining viable and integral to our community.

Youth Led

We ensure that we instil leadership and capacity through our SBL Growth and Graduation Model.

We Partner With

York University

Since SBL’s establishment in 2010, the Faculty of Education at York University has been a close and trusted partner. York University is home to our annual Summer Program, hosted at Osgoode Hall Law School, which enables young people from the Jane and Finch community to earn high school credits. York University’s partnership has been integral to the work we do and the opportunities we create for youth.

We Partner With

Toronto District School Board (TDSB)

The TDSB has been a partner since SBL was established in Jane and Finch in 2010. Through our partnership, we maintain a Youth Space inside Westview and with Continuing Education offer credits through our Summer Program.

We Partner With

Government of Canada

SBL partners with the Supports for Student Learning Program (SSLP). A program of the Federal Government of Canada that funds expert organizations to provide services and create expanded opportunities for students.

We Partner With

United Way Greater Toronto

United Way Greater Toronto is a long time partner and supporter of SBL. Together, we have made so much amazing things happen for young people from Jane and Finch.

We Partner With

City of Toronto

SBL and the City of Toronto have been long time partners and collaborators. The City of Toronto has ensured that opportunity and access meets SBL youth where they are and have opened up possibilities for shared success.

Our Teams

Core Staff

Teachers

Mentors

Thank You

SBL’s vital and important work is made possible by our funders and partners.