CASE STUDY
Investing $2.5 Billion in Prevention Support for Homelessness Initiatives – Concrete Actions to Address Housing Shortages
Lorna Lawrence
Executive Director
Miziwe Biik Development Corporation
The Ontario government is investing an additional $2.9 billion for the Miziwe Biik Development Corporation to support homelessness prevention efforts in the GTA through the province’s Indigenous Supportive Housing Programs (ISHP). Join this session to gain practical real-world insights that can be applied to other communities.
- Developing programs for people to be reintegrated in the community – education, culture programs, employment strategies
- Overcoming barriers of homelessness in an urban setting
- Itemizing the criteria which leads successful repatriation to a nation
- Implementing reintegration strategies and examining what a successful reintegration into a community looks like, and how can it be repeated