Reaching Home, launched in 2019, is a community-based program aimed at preventing and reducing homelessness across Canada. This program supports the goals of Solving the Housing Crisis: Canada’s Housing Plan and the National Housing Strategy and provides funding and support to urban, Indigenous, territorial and rural and remote communities to help them address their local homelessness needs.
Under Reaching Home, the Government of Canada works with communities to deliver projects based on community priorities and data with clear outcomes. This outcomes-based approach keeps the decision-making process at the local level. It also gives communities flexibility to address local priorities and deliver programming designed to meet the needs of specific populations (e.g., youth, Indigenous peoples, women and children fleeing violence).
The Thunder Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre is the Indigenous Community Entity for the Indigenous Homelessness Stream of Reaching Home in Thunder Bay.
