Empowering Vulnerable communities to build an equitable world.
Our Mission
Substance Cares mission is to create a fair and equitable country for all Canadians by curating meaningful and educational programming.
Neil Forester
Co-Founder
Xavier Pinto
Co-Founder
Our Founders
It all started with a conversation between friends.
Neil Forester and Xavier Pinto, co-founders of Substance Cares, were chatting one night and Xavier expressed he was concerned about his son’s future. As his son was diagnosed with Autism at age 2.
Since Substance Cares mission is to create a fair and equitable country for all Canadians by curating meaningful and educational programming, Neil and Xavier continued chatting, and using Xavier’s son as their inspiration, they created Spectrum Works – a job fair focused on helping autistic job seekers find employment.