Our Team
An amazing group of people keeps Massey Centre running 365 days a year. Our team is hardworking, dedicated, and works tirelessly and passionately because we care deeply about our clients and about ensuring a positive outcome for each and every woman and child who walks through our doors. More than 60 full- and part-time staff include:
- Supervisors & Assistant Supervisors
- Managers
- Program Directors
- Youth and Children Workers (Residential Counsellors)
- Employment Counsellors
- Early Childhood Development Co-ordinators
- Early Childhood Educators & Assistants
- Social Workers
- Intake Workers
- Registered Nurses
- Cooks
- Administrative staff
- Finance staff
- Maintenance workers
The Massey Centre team is led by Ekua Asabea Blair, Chief Executive Officer who joined Massey Centre in August 2008.
Prior to joining Massey Centre, Ekua Asabea Blair spent nine years as Executive Director of the Rexdale Community Health Centre. While at Rexdale CHC Asabea Blair was successful in bringing the Pathways to Education Program - originally designed to reduce the high school drop-out rates in Regent Part - to the Jamestown community. During the CHC Expansion in 2006, Rexdale was the only CHC in the province to obtain funding for two CHC Satellites in North Etobicoke. The CHC budget grew from $1.4 million in 1999 to $7 million in 2008.
Prior to joining the team at Rexdale CHC, Asabea Blair was with the Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood Centre for 7 years working first as a Youth and Children’s Program Coordinator and then for five years as Program Director. While there she was instrumental in establishing the Nighana African-Centred Program in partnership with the Toronto District School Board.
A graduate of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson University) Ekua holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts Degree in Hospitality and Tourism Management. In her final year, she was awarded the Laventhol and Horwarth award for best published research paper.
Asabea Blair’s impressive record of community involvement has included membership of the Inclusive Cities Canada: Toronto Civic Panel. She has also worked with a number of other community organizations, among them the Jane Finch Concerned Citizens’ Association and the Black Heritage Program in North York. Ekua was the 2002 recipient of the Constance E. Hamilton Award from the City of Toronto Access and Equity Department for her work with low-income women in the Rexdale Communit
Supporting Ekua in her leadership of Massey Centre is our 2009-2010 Board of Directors:
