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→ The Daniels Corporation Partnership with Covenant House Toronto
The Daniels Corporation is a Toronto-based builder/developer with a long history of addressing issues of homelessness and affordable housing. Daniels recently partnered with the Toronto Community Housing Corporation in the redevelopment of Regent...
Building Community Support
Leverage the media and the private sector in the development of your plan. The media in particular can play a powerful role in bolstering initiatives to end youth homelessness. Thinking through your media strategy and being deliberate about when and...
Ending Homelessness Among Older Adults and Elders Through Permanent Supportive Housing
Corporation for Supportive Housing
Older adults who are experiencing homelessness have three to four times the mortality rate of the general population due to unmet physical health, mental health, and substance use treatment needs. The combination of issues typically associated with...
Not a Solo Act: Creating Successful Partnerships to Develop and Operate Supportive Housing
Supportive housing is not a solo act. It brings together three very different disciplines – housing development, supportive services, and property management – and therefore often requires a collaboration between two or more lead organizations, as...
Transitional Housing Overview
Transitional Housing refers to temporary housing that acts as a stopgap measure between homelessness and permanent housing.  As it applies to youth in particular, it is usually housing with the necessary supports that enable young people to live...
Scattered Site Transitional Housing Program at Covenant House
In following the Foyer’s Hub and Spoke model, both Covenant House Toronto (CHT) and Covenant House Vancouver (CHV) have developed different forms of transitional housing (besides their onsite Rights of Passage Program). Both agencies have a...
Coordinated Entry System Refinement Lab Chicago Action Agenda and Continuum of Care
Corporation for Supportive Housing
This report outlines the coordinated entry system (CES) in Chicago, USA. According to this source, a CES is a collaborative effort wherein all providers of homeless housing and services in the community work together to ensure that from the moment a...
Community Response Resources
Corporation for Supportive Housing
This online toolkit by Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), is a community response resource developed for communities, government agencies and nonprofit organizations addressing unsheltered homelessness across the globe. The tool kit comprise...
Funding
Funding is a challenging issue. Competition for both capital and operating dollars – whether from government, corporate or private sources – is very competitive. Calculating costs of a specific program at a large organization like Covenant House is...
Acknowledgements
Thanks to the staff and service users (past and present) of Choices for Youth and the Train for Trades program in St. John’s, Newfoundland who assisted in the development of the toolkit through taking part in interviews, providing data and resources...
What is Energy Retrofitting?
Energy retrofitting refers to the practice of improving a facility to make it more energy efficient. This can include a number of small fixes such as caulking windows, inserting covers on plugs, wrapping water pipes and weather-stripping doors. It...
Programs
Now in operation for 25 years, Choices for Youth offers a number of core programs to meet the diverse needs of the youth of St. John’s.  Each program is designed to fit one or more core areas of focus: Crisis Response, Supportive Housing, Targeted...
→ Tier 2
When a youth is interested in extending their stay with Train for Trades and they show a good grasp of construction fundamentals, they move into the Modernization & Improvement (M&I) program. This program is also an initiative of the...
→ Special Contracts
This is a newer area of focus for T4T but is key to the sustainability of the program and, in many ways, takes it back to its roots when it renovated The Lilly building. Other projects have included building a garage and a barn, installing bathrooms...
→ Sub-Contractors
Train for Trades also has its own sub-contractors (previously provided by Newfoundland Labrador Housing Corporation). One of the unique features of the sub-contracting partnership is that if a youth is interested in a particular field (i.e. plumbing...