Reaching Home
Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy is a community-based program aimed at reducing and preventing homelessness. Officially launched April 1, 2019, the Government of Canada's homelessness program supports the most vulnerable people by improving access to safe, stable and affordable housing. In May 2020, the City of Chilliwack was identified as a Designated Community under Canada’s Reaching Home Program, which brings with it over $3.2 million between 2020 and 2024 to be invested in local projects. Funds provided by Canada are distributed to organizations, including First Nations, that work directly with people who are at risk in order to provide opportunities to prevent and reduce homelessness.
The City of Chilliwack as the Community Entity (CE) carries the responsibilities of facilitating the agreement with Canada; developing and updating the Community Plan , which is used to identify funding priorities for Eligible Activities under the Directives of the Program; these investment areas are shown in the chart below.
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2021-22 |
2022-23 |
2023-24 |
2024-25 |
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Housing Services |
32% |
32% |
32% |
32% |
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Prevention and Shelter Diversion |
20% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
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Support Services |
20% |
20% |
20% |
20% |
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Capital Investments |
3% |
3% |
3% |
3% |
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Coordination of Resources and Data Collection |
10% |
10% |
10% |
10% |
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Administration |
15% |
15% |
15% |
15% |
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TOTAL |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
The Reaching Home Program has five core community-level outcomes that guide the projects and activities, including:
- Homelessness is reduced overall;
- New inflows into homelessness are reduced;
- Returns to homelessness are reduced;
- Indigenous homelessness is reduced; and,
- Chronic homelessness is reduced by 50% by 2027-2028.
See attachements below for City of Chilliwack funded projects, starting May 2020.
| Attachments | |||
| Description | Date | File Size | |
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2020-2021 Chilliwack Community Homelessness Report | 2023-12-19 | 318KB |
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2021-2022 Chilliwack Community Homelessness Report | 2023-01-11 | 248KB |
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2022-2023 Chilliwack Community Homelessness Report | 2023-09-18 | 330KB |
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Community Plan - Reaching Home - 2021 - 2024 | 2021-10-19 | 301KB |
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Reaching Home Project Details - 2020-21 | 2023-01-11 | 99KB |
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Reaching Home Project Details - 2021-22 | 2023-01-11 | 84KB |
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Reaching Home Project Details - 2022-23 | 2023-01-11 | 76KB |
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Reaching Home Project Details - 2023-24 | 2023-06-09 | 72KB |