A Way Home Canada
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Main Contact: hwalter@awayhome.ca
Tel: (587) 228-9121
Address: 192 SPADINA AVENUE TORONTO Ontario Canada M5T-2G7
About
A Way Home Canada is a national coalition dedicated to preventing, reducing, and ending youth homelessness in Canada.
What We Do
• Policy Transformation: They advocate for government policies that shift the focus from managing homelessness with emergency shelters to stopping it before it starts.
• Systems Planning: They provide tools, training, and leadership to help local communities and governments plan coordinated responses across education, health, and child welfare.
• Evidence-Driven Research: They partner with groups like the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness to conduct major studies and provide data for targeted solutions.
• Community Practice: They run a pan-Canadian community of practice to share real-world strategies, including specialized supports for LGBTQ2S+ youth and family interventions
Region
Provincial.
Program Description
A Way Home offers communities across Canada a range of tools and strategies to support the national movement to prevent and end youth homelessness, including:
Collective impact, theory of change, implementation support and opportunities for implementation grants delivered in partnership with the McConnell Foundation’s Youth Collective Impact Initiatives;
Assistance to local communities and ongoing support for coordinators and backbone functions;
Program model resources, including toolkits and technical support for adapting and implementing effective program models;
Training and technical assistance for frontline staff, program teams and organizational leaders, including program implementation support, ongoing coaching, reflective practice, fidelity reviews and systems navigation; and
Increased connection to government systems to support community-driven responses and strengthen coordination across services.
Area of Focus
- Peer mentoring (same or similar age)
- One-to-One Mentoring
- Informal
- Formal
Ages
- 16-18
- 18-24
Special Population
- Children/Youth in Care
- Aboriginal Children/Youth
- Children/Youth with a Disability
- Rural/Remote
- 2SLGBTQ+ children and youth
- Immigrant Children/Youth
- Sexual Minority Children/Youth
- Girls/Women
- Boys/Men