History and Milestones

Access for Parents and Children in Ontario (APCO) began offering supervised and exchange access at our first access centre, the Danforth site.

APCO received increased funding from the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario and was able to expand its services from one site to four sites in the following areas:

1. East-York
2. Etobicoke
3. Scarborough
4. North-York

In the same year APCO moved to a new and larger office located at 1300 Yonge Street, Suite 407, Toronto, Ontario, M4T 1X3.

APCO increased services in North York by offering access on weekends instead of evenings at the North York site.

APCO began offering services on Wednesday evenings at the Danforth location, providing supervised visits and exchanges between the hours of 6:15 pm to 8:15 pm.

APCO began offering supervised visit and exchange services on Friday evenings at the Danforth site.

APCO was able to open a second site in Scarborough in order to resolve the waiting list problem in Scarborough.

APCO began offering supervised visit and exchange services on alternate Sundays at the downtown site.

APCO was able to develop a website for the program.

APCO increased services in downtown by offering access every Friday and every Saturday and Sunday.

APCO was able to extend the hours of operation by an hour for supervised visits on Saturdays.

APCO began offering services on alternate Sundays to one of the newest locations at Albion Road.

APCO moved the North York location – 5 Brahms to Seneca College.

APCO was able to extend hours of operation for weekly visits

APCO moved the Etobicoke location – 1 Hollis Street to Falstaff

APCO moved to a new and larger office at 100 Sheppard Avenue East, Suite #504, Toronto, Ontario, M2N 6N5