Our Charitable Programs for Education and Mental Health

We are proud to have recently been recognized as the following by Charity Intelligence in 2024

Boundless has been awarded Charity Intelligence’s “5-Star” designation for over a decade. These awards represent a rigorous and objective assessment of our cost-effectiveness, the achievement of exceptional student outcomes, transparency, accountability to stakeholders, and sound financial management.

To look under the hood of Boundless, please visit the documents section below.

Our Clumsy Utopia

Boundless is a rather unique combination of being an Independent High School and a Mental Health Counselling program, located in the pristine wilderness of Eastern Ontario. Our classroom rests on 600 acres of fantasy-like forests, and abuts the Madawaska River in Renfrew County.

It’s an educator’s dream, but can also be clumsy. 

The youth and young adults that come here present anxiety, depression, and often severe learning issues. They are marginalized, compromised, and often victimized. Trying to support them to rise above and beyond their hurdles is sometimes messy. But in the final analysis, almost 95% of our students prevail

Our Direction for 2026

– We’ll serve 200 vulnerable teens, in our boarding school and in group-based initiatives. 

– We are building a new program to support the mental health of up to 125 young adults

– We are developing a multi-generational family focussed program, serving up to 200 people

– Many of our students are Indigenous (about a third), refugees, newcomers and those presenting serious and persistent mental health issues

– All the while, teenagers shall graduate in droves from our school program

– We are steadily re-wilding 600 acres, which includes planting hundreds of trees, and enabling natural habitat to heal from a history of aggressive logging and potato farming.

 

Our Community Partners are Deeply Invested in Boundless

Our partners provide more than just referrals. They manage cultural training, shared treatment approaches, and send staff to accompany youth to Boundless. They include Indigenous Communities, Children’s Aid Societies, Children’s Mental Health Centres, School boards, and officials in the Youth Justice system.

How our Program Flows Throughout the Year

From September to March, we deliver our school programs to struggling youth. All kids are provided with a 100% scholarship when referred by our community partners.

From April to August, we deliver community programs; short term adventure expeditions for high school credits; launch new group-therapeutic initiatives for young adults; and create ideal conditions for people from different generations to come together and thrive on the land.

            Please Support our Programs for Vulnerable Youth

By donating to Boundless, your support will go towards serving up to 525 youth, young adults and family members annually. Or, consider supporting the rewilding of our newly created conservation area.

The Boundless Education Conservation Area (B.E.C.A.)

We hope your great, great, great, great grandchildren, and their distant progeny, will visit the wondrous BECA in the year 2437, or perhaps pop by in 2699. They’ll drop to their knees in awe when they behold the old growth forest, feast on produce from the carefully protected organic farm, fry up pickerel from the pristine Madawaska River, and stroll through fields of amber grass that will thrive from its romantic relation with cow poop.

This is our vision for BECA – that current students and future generations of visitors thrive on this piece of paradise.

The land will be protected for centuries – all 600 acres of our Madawaska valley soil. In our eco-fantasy, we plan to gobble up adjacent land by making our neighbours offers that they can’t refuse. Shhhhh, don’t let it out of the bag just yet. We need a pile of cash first.

But we do have time.

How to Donate

We are a Canadian registered charity (124225855RR0001) and issue tax receipts for all donations. Donations may be made by PayPal, cheque, Visa, or Mastercard.

Donors may designate their donations to any of the following programs:

Youth programs | Indigenous programs | B.E.C.A

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