Enjoy the long weekend!
In The News: May 7-13, 2021
"We are grateful for the opportunity to expand the supports available to help our community," Pam Glode-Desrochers, executive director of Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre, said in a press release. "We look forward to the continued partnership with the province to support the most vulnerable in our community."
New affordable rental housing in East Vancouver
This project, by the Lu’ma Native Housing Society, is a four-storey residential building that will provide the neighborhood of Renfrew Heights with 23 units of much needed rental housing for Indigenous families and individuals.
In The News: April 30 – May 6, 2021
News for the housing and homeless serving sectors this week.
Call for concepts for innovative projects to prevent and eliminate homelessness under the Community Capacity and Innovation Stream of Reaching Home (Deadline June 11, 2021)
The Government of Canada is providing approximately $6 million over three years, starting in 2021–22, for scalable projects that will test and develop new and innovative approaches to addressing homelessness in communities across the country.
In The News: April 23-29, 2021
News stories to wrap up April 2021.
Virtual discussion on data, HIFIS, and coordinated access: May 7, 2021
The session is open to members of the Urban, Rural and Remote Indigenous Reaching Home Caucus and will be hosted via Zoom.
Save the date: Reaching Home Indigenous Forum
The forum is open to Reaching Home Indigenous Community Entities and Indigenous Community Advisory Boards.
Monthly meeting of Indigenous Coordinated Access Leads
For more information, contact srestoule@wabano.com
In The News: April 16-22, 2021
News articles for the week of April 16-23, 2021.