Ending youth homelessness requires collaboration between donors, governments, and community partners—this commitment is just the beginning.
Category: Housing and Homelessness
Young people like Natasha can step out of survival mode and focus on their future thanks to United Way East Ontario’s partnership with Columbus House Pembroke.
United Way East Ontario helps women heal and rebuild their lives after surviving abuse by partnering with Lanark County Interval House’s second-stage housing program.
United Way East Ontario and other Ontario United Ways are proposing real, community-based solutions to the ongoing housing crisis in our province.
By addressing poverty at its roots, we’ll also prevent rising costs in health care and emergency services.
Supported by United Way East Ontario, the YMCA’s Second Stage Housing Program provides shelter, support and resources for young people like Merveille, who found himself homeless after coming to Canada from Congo.
As a teen, Cassandra faced homelessness just eight months after brain surgery. Thanks to the Youth Services Bureau’s Transitional Housing for Homeless Youth program, she is living independently and thriving.
United Way East Ontario is honoured to have partnered with the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness and the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa in the 2024 National Conference on Ending Homelessness (CAEH24).