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A Place to Call Home: Brandon's Plan to End Youth Homelessness

About this Initiative

Location:

Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, Prairie & Northern Region (AB, SK, MB, YT, NT, NU)

Year Started:

June 2014

Initiative stage:

Initiating Action

Initiative Purpose and Goals:

Goal: To prevent, reduce and end youth homelessness in Brandon, Manitoba

Initiative website:

http://www.bnrc.ca

Collective Impact Elements in Place

Common Agenda

Continuous Communication

Mutually Reinforcing Activities

Backbone Support

Organizations serving in the Backbone Role

The Brandon Neighbourhood Renewal Corporation (BNRC) hosts space for meetings, and the project lead for developing the plan and implementation activities.

A Way Home Coalition provides backbone financial support and this program is a product of the Mobilizing Local capacity to End Youth homelessness initiative.

Over 30 local organizations are involved including the City of Brandon, Brandon Friendship Centre, Youth for Christ, Manitoba Metis Federation, Brandon University and more.

Backbone structure

The backbone organization (BNRC) is a non-governmental organization which administers funding for all three levels of government in Canada (municiple, provnicial & federal)

The A Way Home coalition is a non-profit advocacy organization with a specific mandate to prevent, reduce and end youth homelessness.

Measures of Success

Number of clients who are housed through housing first initiatives

Number of new housing stock units created

Number of youth who access services (increase/decrease)

The number of cases diverted from crisis intervention through the Community Mobilization Hub

Initiative Activities and Milestones

Activities

A Place to Call Home Community art project

Project lead also sits on Winnipeg End Youth Homelessness with the intention of broadening this mandate to a provincial one, not just local.

Milestones

Publication of the plan on April 13th

2 Point in Time Counts, January 2015 & April 2016

Community Engagement and Advancing Equity

Community Engagement Activities

Community meetings, PiT Stop at Point in Time Count, Community art project.

Upcoming plans for photovoice, community feasts

Activities to Advance Equity

Specific focus on marginalized groups that are over-represented in the homeless population including LGT2SQ & Indigenous youth.

Initiative Partners and Governance

Contributing organizations

City of Brandon, Brandon friendship centre, Manitoba Metis Federation, YWCA, Youth for Christ, La Buick & Co., Brandon School Division, Neelin Off-Campus, Child and Family Services

Sectors Engaged

Nonprofit

Public Sector

Business Sector

Initiative governance

The group is a community steering committee supported by the BNRC which makes dicsisions on a consensus basis. In the summer of 2016, this group will form sub-committees around the four priority areas identified in A Place to Call Home: Brandon's Plan to End Youth Homelessness

Resources

PTCH_Master_LR_25.pdf

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