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.
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Saint John Designated Community Funding
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Reaching Home Priority | ||
| Fresh Start Services | $214,000 | Housing First program | Housing Services |
| Fresh Start Services | $147,000 | Hearthstone prevention | Prevention and Shelter Diversion |
| Outflow Ministry | $65,000 | Shelter Diversion program | Prevention and Shelter Diversion |
| TRC | $20,000 | Youth Case Management | Client Services |
| Housing Alternatives | $228,000 | Housing First program | Housing Services |
| Elizabeth Fry Society | $ 141,000 | Supportive Housing program | Housing Services |
| John Howard | $5,000 | Strength based counselling services | Client Services |
| Coverdale Centre for Women | $69,541 | Transitional housing support | Housing Services |
| First Steps Housing | $10,000 | Second steps housing | Housing Services |
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Community Coordination and Innovation Funding Stream
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| Human Development Council | $161,700 | Development, implementation and management of CAS + HIFIS 4 | Community Coordination & Innovation |
The Human Development Council retains a 12.5% administration fee on annual allocations.