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Overnight Shelter
Good Shepherd Centre provides 107 shelter beds for adult men ages 18 and older. Facilities include showers and all overnight guests are provided with towels and toiletries. Occupancy runs at 100% capacity throughout the year. All overnight guests are provided breakfast.
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EVICTION PREVENTION Program
The Eviction Prevention Program was launched in October of 2022 and it was developed to enhance the dignity and quality of life of clients by providing an early intervention approach aimed at preventing homelessness to low-income households at risk of homelessness, including individuals pending discharge from hospitals and correctional facilities, youth aging out of the Children’s Aid Society (CAS), newcomers to Canada and those displaced from housing due to unexpected incidents (i.e., fire or unsafe premises). Where appropriate, individuals and households seeking emergency shelter services will be assisted with immediate re-housing supports and stabilization assistance. Services are provided with a Housing First approach.
Housing Support Follow Up Program
The Housing Support Follow Up program helps people integrate into their community and provide linkage to appropriate services and resources that help maintain housing and live independently. The role of a Housing Follow Up Support Case Worker is to facilitate and offer supports focused on stabilizing and maintaining tenancy for people who have exited homelessness. This could include accessing local resources such as food and clothing banks, assistance with accessing social assistance or employment supports, referral to community/intensive case management services, local addiction and substance uses services, medical and psychiatric care, intensive stabilization units etc.
HOUSING Resettlement Program
Good Shepherd Centre’s Housing Resettlement Program works one-on-one with homeless men, helping them to find and keep suitable housing. The Program has operated since March 1996.
Resettlement housing workers do much more than just find housing for their clients. They help each client to develop a plan to cope with other problems. Housing workers help clients to access health care, to solve immigration problems, to connect to social assitance, to replace lost ID.
Most clients are placed with private landlords. Resettlement workers keep in touch with landlords so that problems can be fixed at an early stage, before the client finds himself homeless again.
To use the Resettlement Program, clients must be over the age of 18 and be staying overnight at Good Shepherd Centre. Clients who are involved in this program are offered an extended stay while working with housing workers and counsellors.
CLOTHING ROOM
The clothing room relies on donations of new and gently used items.
