Backgrounder: Government of Canada invests in Community Capacity and Innovation to prevent and reduce homelessness

Nunavut Association of Non-Profit Organizations

$280,432

The project will build capacity within the non-profit sector to mitigate homelessness and overcrowding in Nunavut by increasing communication and collaboration between nonprofit organizations, government and Inuit organizations. It will also create a public directory of nonprofit organizations in the territory and will undertake an analysis of the Iqaluit housing market to create a model for non-profit housing in the community.

Safe at Home Society

$518,012

The project will expand Coordinated Access to rural Yukon communities, building on the successes and challenges of implementing Reaching Home in Whitehorse, and adapting the model for First Nations and rural community needs and context. In addition, Safe at Home Society will provide expert support to rights holders and stakeholders in Yukon to implement Homeless an Individual Family Information System.

Rural Development Network Society

566,776

The project will build capacity within the homeless-serving sector by creating a Coordinated Access system model and processes that will help address the unique challenges faced by service providers implementing Coordinated Access in rural, remote and Indigenous communities.

SEED Winnipeg Inc.

$338,506

Build capacity within the homeless-serving sector by establishing a cross-sectoral Access to Identification (ID) Network within Manitoba as well as providing training, mentorship and the administrative tools required for service provision and tracking service delivery activities and outcomes. The project will provide individuals experiencing homelessness with support in obtaining and storing the ID required to access housing, employment and other essential services.

The Niagara Resource Service for Youth (The RAFT)

$446,437

The project will test an integrated approach to addressing youth homelessness. The project is a training, logistical support, and community agency network development program designed to scale the organization’s proven prevention process nationally.

United Way of Canada - Centraide du Canada

$592,655

The project will increase the effectiveness of the 211 network in reducing and preventing inflow of vulnerable people into by-name lists of people experiencing homelessness across Canada by facilitating closed-loop referrals within the homelessness service sector.

Institute for Research and Development on Inclusion and Society

$356,208

The project will increase capacity of local community stakeholders to identify and respond to housing vulnerability of specific populations of Canadians with intellectual disabilities. This project will address these objectives by designing and co-piloting evidence-based tools and strategies in Iqaluit, Toronto and Winnipeg.

York University (Canadian Observatory on Homelessness)

$425,840

The project will build capacity within the homelessness sector to implement prevention focused interventions that successfully reduce inflows into, and returns to homelessness. Through a collaborative and reciprocal partnership project involving 6 communities, including Indigenous partners, the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness will implement Shelter Diversion (SD) and Eviction Prevention interventions.

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

$195,000

The project will address an under-examined area of study in supportive housing settings: risk management. This initiative will provide the supportive housing community in Canada with new evidence and resources to manage high risk behaviors as a means of promoting staff and tenant wellness, preventing eviction and diminishing recurring homelessness.

Lii Michif Otipemisiwak Family and Community Services

$509,825

The project will prevent and reduce homelessness of Métis and other Indigenous youth (ages 16 to 27) aging out of the child protection system in the Kamloops region. The project will offer this vulnerable population increased opportunities to age out of care better prepared to engage in education, employment readiness and/or employment opportunities, and decrease the risk of homelessness.

NWT Housing Corporation

$600,000

The project will conduct a two-part project to support innovative approaches targeting specific populations, as well as data collection. This initiative will offer critical and culturally relevant training to shelter workers and front line staff in NWT with a mentorship component to ensure application in their specific settings. The project will also include compiling and analyzing data specific to homelessness in NWT to help establish a framework around strategic planning and address hidden homelessness in each community, determine trends and act as a basis to build a broader set of data in the territory and beyond.

Rural Development Network Society (AB)

$503,235

The project will build capacity within the homelessness sector through a collaborative and reciprocal partnership with Indigenous communities. This Indigenous led project will obtain and disseminate housing and homelessness survey data following the First Nations Principles of Ownership, Control, Access and Possession (OCAP), to allow a better understanding of homelessness in Indigenous communities.