Homelessness Partnering Strategy
COMMUNITY ENTITY METRO VANCOUVER
2016-2019 Project Investments (as of January 13 2017)
The Metro Vancouver HPS Community Entity works in partnership with Service Canada and the HPS Community
Advisory Board (CAB), on calls for proposals, submissions review and funding decisions. The CAB sets the terms of
reference for each call for proposals and directs the allocation of funds within the framework of the HPS
program. The 2014-2019 HPS program requires a minimum of 65% of funds be awarded to Housing First
projects. The CAB may allocate the remaining 35% to other HPS priorities and activities in Capital, Support
Services, and Regional projects. The following is a preliminary list of HPS-funded project investments. The final
list will be available upon completion of the current contracting phase.
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Organisation
Project Title
Value $
Description
HOUSING FIRST – PRIORITY: to reduce homelessness through a Housing First approach
1
Hollyburn
North Shore
Family Services Housing First
Society
for Youth
2
MPA
Motivation,
Power &
Achievement
Society
SOLO program
3
The Elizabeth
Fry Society of
Greater
Vancouver
A Key of Her
Own
$1,016,035 Focus on women and women w/children who are chronic
or episodically homeless. Goal to place 110 clients in
Burnaby/New West and Tri Cities area.
4
The
Progressive
Housing
Society
Burnaby
Housing and
Outreach Hub
$2,369,774 Provide Housing First services in Burnaby and New
Westminster. House 132 individuals with housing
placements, and case management services to achieve
social and economic goals.
5
Hollyburn
Housing First
Family Services for Seniors and
Society
Francophones
6
Downtown
Eastside
Women's
Centre
Find and Keep
$145,949 Secure permanent housing for chronic & episodically
homeless youth 13-24 years of age. Additional supports,
services and resources, as directed by the client, through
an intensive case management service. (2014-2016
project offered Housing First funds up to March 2017)
$60,795 Provide case management & individualized life skill
supports to chronic/episodic homelessness; case
management services to assist with successful tenancy.
(2014-2016 project offered Housing First funds up to
March 2017)
$457,028 For Housing First eligible seniors 55+, and one part-time
outreach worker specific to Housing First eligible
Francophones 19+, on the North Shore; to place clients in
permanent housing.
$1,639,267 Expansion of Housing First program and hours of service
to provide housing for 120 clients.
7
RainCity
Housing &
Support
Society
LGBTQ2S*
Youth Housing
First Program
$864,543 Housing first project located in Vancouver that will
provide housing and supports to chronic/episodic
homeless youth who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Trans, Queer and Two Spirit.
8
Stepping Stone
Community
Services
Langley
Outreach Housing First
$332,609 Housing first case manager to work with homeless
outreach team to provide services for clients who are
identified as episodically and chronically homeless, using
a housing first approach. Stepping Stone established a
Housing First Advisory Committee of community partners.
9
Aunt Leah's
Independent
Life Skills
Society
The Link
Housing First
10
Alouette Home Housing First
Start Society
ICM Team for
(AHSS)
Maple Ridge,
Pitt Meadows,
& Katzie First
Nation
RainCity
RainCity Surrey
Housing &
ICM Team
Support
Society
$546,164 The Link Housing First began operation in January 2015 in
partnership with HPS and BC Housing and serves the
needs of homeless foster youth who have, or will soon,
‘age out’ of provincial foster care system. This housing
first initiative focuses on youth from foster care who are
experiencing chronic and episodic homelessness. Program
brings a preventative aspect to housing first model, to
prevent aging out into a street and shelter homelessness.
$324,964 ICM team for region, with HPS funding case manager and
Pending housing specialist (focused on landlords), goal is to house
new 20 clients on average taking a month to move in from
information assessment. Meet bi monthly with partners, have
subsidies. Internal and external evaluation.
11
$1,271,398 Serve clients and provide scattered site housing to people
who are chronic/episodic or those with a history of
chronic/episodic homelessness in Surrey/White Rock as
primary location and Langley as secondary location. Place
15 clients with complex addiction issues into permanent
housing.
$3,100,137 A collaborative between E Fry, Options, Lookout and
Sources in Surrey serving chronically and episodically
homeless or history of either; goal to place 157 clients.
12
The Elizabeth
Fry Society of
Greater
Vancouver
Surrey Housing
First
Collaboration Hitting The Nail
on the Head
13
Pacific
Community
Resources
Society
Broadway
Youth Resource
Centre Housing
Outreach
$502,114 Partnering with the Broadway Youth Resource Centre
Collective, will house 30 youth aged 0-24 and include
Aboriginal community, youth transitioning to adulthood
and LGBTQ2S community.
14
RainCity
Housing &
Support
Society
Coquitlam
Housing First
Case
Management
$257,210 To provide scattered site Housing First case management
to up to 15 people. Case manager will provide Housing
First supports to chronic and/or episodic homelessness
and who have significant and complex issues with a focus
on people 55+.
15
The John
Howard
Society of the
Lower
Mainland
From Prison to
Community Providing
Housing First
$655,415 Provide wraparound services and connect individuals to
permanent housing for successful reintegration into the
community. Provide in-reach at correctional centres to
facilitate the intake process at the earliest opportunity
and identify Housing First eligible individuals. Develop
release and aftercare plans based on personalized needs
and provide outreach services to clients upon release with
focus on stable housing.
SUPPORT SERVICES – PRIORITY: to improve the self-sufficiency of homeless individuals and families and those
at imminent risk of homelessness through individualized services
16
Circle of Eagles
Lodge Society
Housing and
supports
$279,209 Provide housing and support services; goal to serve 26
clients; 13 housing placement and 13 loss prevention.
17
Covenant
House
Vancouver
Right of
Passage
$363,852 Supportive transitional housing program, providing 25
bachelor suites to youth ages 16-24 who are homeless or
at imminent risk of homelessness; provides youth with a
structured 6 step life skills program, support with
individualized goals and plans, access to educational and
employment resources, housing placement, and mental
health and addictions counselling.
18
Sources
Community
Resources
Society
Essentials to
Housing
$549,762 Support project serving the general homeless populations
of Surrey, White Rock, and Langley; place clients into
stable housing, while their main focus will be in housing
loss prevention.
19
Cwenengitel
Aboriginal
Society
Indigenous
Services for
Indigenous
People in
Surrey
20
Pacific
Community
Resources
Society
Surrey Youth
Housing and
Homelessness
Prevention
Program
$232,739 Serve Aboriginal clients between ages of 16 and 65 in
Surrey. While Cwenengitel currently has a residential
program serving 14 clients, HPS funding will allow them to
extend their services to non-residential clients and
provide cultural activities, housing placement, and
counselling.
$239,457 Fund staff wages to provide direct client support to youth
and young adults up to age of 24 who are homeless or at
imminent risk of homelessness in the Surrey/White Rock
area; place 125 clients into more stable housing and assist
125 clients with loss prevention services.
21
Vancouver
Aboriginal
Transformative
Justice
Aboriginal
Housing
Support
Program
$483,448 House 60 clients per year; work with Aboriginal
individuals who are homeless or at imminent risk of
homelessness with a culturally based approach of Housing
Circles.
CAPITAL – PRIORITY: to preserve or increase the capacity of facilities used to address the needs of people who
are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness
22
The Elizabeth
Fry Society of
Greater
Vancouver
Shelter &
Transitional
Housing Staying Warm
and Dry
23
Chimo
Community
Services
Society
Delta Transition
House
24
Hollyburn
North Shore
Family Services Youth Safe
Society
House
25
Chrysalis
Society Drug &
Alcohol Abuse
Recovery
26
MPAMotivation,
Power,
Achievement
27
The Lookout
Emergency Aid
Society
Crawford
Manor
Renovations
28
Downtown
Eastside
Women's
Centre
Women's
Shelter
Upgrade
RE+NEW:
Reno'd
environment +
nutrional
Education for
Women (Reno
portion)
124 Powell
Street
Permanent
Supportive
Housing
Development
$284,000 Renovation to install new roof & windows
$118,960
Pending
new
information
Renovation and furniture purchase of 10 unit building
including 10 HPS funded units comprising 10 transitional
beds for homeless and/or at imminent risk of
homelessness women.
$135,000 Pre-development, development, facility
reno/expansion/repurposing and equipment/furniture
purchase to a 7 unit building including 1 HPS funded unit
comprising 1 emergency shelter bed for transgender
youth who are chronically or episodically homeless, or at
imminent risk of homelessness.
$86,723 Renovation of kitchen at New Dawn.
$1,018,570 New construction of 21 permanent supportive housing;
development & construction
$126,319 Facility renovation of a 12 unit building including 12 HPS
funded units comprising 12 supportive beds for
chronically homeless, episodically homeless, homeless,
and at imminent risk of homeless men with acquired
brain injury and fetal alcohol syndrome.
$100,000 Renovations to upgrade facility for expansion of shelter
services 24-hours a day, seven days per week, and
increased beds. Upgrades to the kitchen, bathrooms,
electrical, plumbing, and venting & space configuration,
including offices & office set-up to enhance this facility,
allowing for extended hours to better serve the women of
the community who have repeatedly called for a 24-hour
low-barrier, drop-in, and women-only shelter space.
29
Young
Women's
Christian
Association
Fire Hall No. 5
Transitional
Housing - 15
units
$259,285 Construction of 31 unit building, including 15 HPS funding
units comprising 36 transitional beds for homeless and at
imminent risk of homelessness.
30
Atira Women's
Resource
Society
41 East
Hastings - 52
units
$1,000,002 Facility construction of 198 unit building including 52 HPS
funded units comprising 52 units of permanent supportive
housing for women who are chronically or episodically
homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness
31
Atira Women's
Resource
Society
$250,000 New housing from upcycled shipping containers to
provide safe, affordable long-term housing to women and
children. 21 beds will be created with HPS funds.
32
Lu'ma Native
BCH Housing
Society
420 Hawks
Avenue - 21
units (Converted
shipping
containers)
950 Main
Street - 30 new
units
33
The Elizabeth
Fry Society of
Greater
Vancouver
Surrey Project Transitional
Housing - 25
housing units
$762,642 New construction for episodically homeless women; 25
long term housing units
$800,625 Construction of 30 new permanent supportive housing
units for Aboriginal homeless or at imminent risk of
homelessness.
REGIONAL Non-Housing First - PRIORITIES: to ensure coordination of resources and leveraging and to improve
data collection and use
34
Sources
Community
Resources
Society
Ask An
Advocate
35
Greater
Vancouver
Shelter
Strategy
Supporting
Partnerships
between
Health &
Homelessness
$375,967 Website provides online advocacy support to
organizations serving Metro Vancouver’s homeless
population; will include 30 tutorials and a Tenancy and
Income Supports Advocate available for questions online.
To increase community (regional) capacity to address
homelessness. Coordinate and provide access to tenancy
and income support advice for organizations supporting
individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness
to obtain and maintain permanent housing. A regional
forum for communications, tools, and training.
$312,264 Enhance health support to people experiencing/exiting
homelessness in their transitions to shelter and housing in
collaboration with Fraser Health, Providence Health Care
and Vancouver Coastal Health and SFU Gerontology
Research Centre. To understand resources needed to
support transitions from hospital to shelters and housing,
evaluating two projects on health supports and
conducting a cost benefit analysis of hospital stays.
REGIONAL Housing First – PRIORITY: data, tracking and monitoring
36
BC Non-Profit
Housing
Association
2017 Homeless
Count
37
The Lookout
Emergency Aid
Society
Housing First
Innovation Lab
38
Michelle
Ninow
Consulting
Housing
Placement
Strategy
39
Greater
Vancouver
Shelter
Services
Society
40
Evaluating the
Housing First
Approach in
the Metro
Vancouver
Region
Provincial
Indigenous
Health Services Cultural Safety
Authority
Training
41
InFocus
Management
Consulting
Aboriginal
Housing First
Engagement
Strategy
42
Alice Sundberg
Consulting
Compilation of
relevant best
$245,000 24 hour point in time snapshot of homelessness in the
region; counting people in sheltered facilities at night and
people on the streets during the day; piloting
methodologies for a Waterways Count, Enhanced Surrey
Urban Count and a Rural & Remote Count. ($140k FY3
Housing First; $105k FY4 Non-Housing First Funds)
$406,769 Complete and compile existing research on housing first
services in Metro Vancouver; Identify key partners,
organizations, and leaders in each community whose
participation is essential; Provide research for partners in
each community to involve them effectively in codesigning the lab; Convene labs in communities
throughout region with all service providers and partners
(HPS and non-HPS funded) to design ways to integrate
services and collaborate to fill gaps identified in the
research; Develop Action Plans for new service
integrations; offer workshops in each community for
service providers around change management.
$21,700 To develop a housing placement strategy to identify &
address issues and needs in community consultation;
identify best practices locally and in other jurisdictions for
housing placement, collaborative strategy development,
produce a toolkit and best practices for homeless serving
organizations.
$73,667 Building on previous Housing First studies of metro
Vancouver region, in community consultation; identify
issues (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats)
in the Housing First service delivery; consultation with
organizations using a Housing First approach (HPS and
non-HPS funded); offer insights & recommendations.
$20,000 Separate training for Indigenous workers serving
Indigenous homeless persons, and for non-Indigenous
workers serving Indigenous homeless persons; learn
diversity of Indigenous groups in BC; impacts of
colonization; role of self-awareness in cultural safety,
disparities affecting indigenous peoples who are
homeless, knowledge, skills and strategies for delivering
culturally safe services and programs.
$75,000 Develop an Aboriginal Housing First Engagement Strategy.
Building on the Bentwood Box Housing First Readiness
project and Metro Vancouver Community Entity’s five
Housing First Readiness projects – for Aboriginal
organizations serving Aboriginal homeless persons.
$11,440 Compile relevant best practices / model solutions
(regionally, nationally, internationally) for addressing
practices and
solutions for
Regional
Homelessness
Task Force
pathways into homelessness, in particular effective
prevention and diversion practices; addressing the needs
of those who are already homeless, including emergency
shelter, outreach, drop-in and meal programs; creating
pathways out of homelessness, such as Housing First,
employment programs, support services for mental
health and substance use issues.