Dedicated to the mental health and well-being of children and families, Lutherwood provides therapeutic services for youth experiencing significant mental health, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties. Day Treatment provides help with behavioural and emotional problems in a school setting, residential treatment is available when families are unable to cope or are absent from the child's life and our Parklands Open Custody program provides treatment options to youth within the Youth Justice System.
Established in 1988, Habitat for Humanity Waterloo is a non-profit, non-denominational Christian housing organization. Working to break the cycle of poverty, Habitat Waterloo works to bring volunteers and community partners together in order to build simple, decent and affordable homes for low-income families. Focused on providing a 'hand up' not a 'hand out,' Habitat Waterloo partners with families who live in substandard housing, and who are willing to volunteer 500 hours of 'sweat equity' and will repay a zero-down payment, interest-free mortgage over an average of 25 years. One hundred percent of all administrative and fundraising costs are paid for by the operation of Habitat Waterloo and Cambridge's ReStores. Habitat ReStores sell quality new and used donated building materials. Thus, every dollar donated is directly applied to Habitat Waterloo's building program.