Petition to save Silver Creek School and playground which provides essential children's mental health services and daycare space for children with disabilities by designating the building a vital community hub and stopping the sale of this vital fabric of our neighbourhood.

TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO:

Whereas: Silver Creek School is the home to the Silver Creek Pre-School and the Etobicoke Community Children's Centre, two essential childcare programs for the families of our community; and

Whereas: The Silver Creek Pre-School has been serving children with physical and developmental challenges since 1975, currently serving more than 60 children annually; and

Whereas: Silver Creek provides a positive pre-school setting with therapeutic (physiotherapy, occupational, speech & language, and music therapy) services delivered within a caring and creative early education classroom, helping children with and without physical and developmental challenges to achieve success as defined by each child and family; and

Whereas: The Etobicoke Children's Centre is dedicated to providing services to children, youth and their families who experience challenges related to mental health and autism; and

Whereas: The Etobicoke Children's Centre has been in our neighbourhood since 1999 and serves approximately 1200 children and their families annually; and

Whereas: It is crucial that the province act immediately to ensure that these vital childcare resources and its surrounding green space are not lost.

Therefore: We the undersigned, petition the Legislative Assembly to stop the sale of Silver Creek School.