The Human Development Council is the Community Entity (CE) for Reaching Home, Canada’s Homelessness Strategy. In our role as the CE, we work with local Community Advisory Boards in Fredericton, Moncton and Saint John to develop community plans and priorities and fund projects, through an open transparent process, to deliver programs and services that will lead to measurable reductions in homelessness.

Canada’s Homelessness Strategy is a community-based program aimed at preventing and reducing homelessness across Canada. This program provides funding to urban, Indigenous, rural and remote communities to help them address their local homelessness needs.

Reaching Home supports the goals of the National Housing Strategy, in particular, to support the most vulnerable Canadians in maintaining safe, stable and affordable housing and to reduce chronic homelessness nationally by 50% by the fiscal year 2027 to 2028.

For more information on Reaching Home funding please contact Greg Bishop by email at greg@sjhdc.ca or by calling 506.636.8541.

Here are the projects currently being supported by Reaching Home funding in the designated communities of Fredericton, Moncton and Saint John.

Fredericton Designated Community Funding Stream
Reaching Home Priority
John Howard Society $526,000 Housing First program Housing Services
John Howard Society $75,000 Shelter Diversion Prevention and Shelter Diversion
Fredericton Shelters $54,000 Coordination and management of BNL/CAS processes Coordination of resources/data collection
Fredericton Shelters $54,000 Shelter Diversion Prevention and Shelter Diversion
Fredericton Shelters $22,000 Continuum – housing focused shelter Client services
UNB/DCHC $90,000 Community Navigation + Client services
Under One Sky $7,500 Prevention program Prevention and Shelter Diversion
Community Coordination and Innovation Funding Stream
Human Development Council $113,360 Development, implementation and management of CAS + HIFIS 4 Community Coordination & Innovation

The Human Development Council retains a 12.5% administration fee on annual allocations.

For the Fredericton Community Homelessness Reports, see below

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