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Reaching Home

The Government of Canada’s Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy is a community-based program aimed at preventing and reducing homelessness. It provides direct funding to urban, Indigenous, rural, and remote communities to help them address their local homelessness needs. It is funded by the Government of Canada’s Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy.

Reaching Home will fund activities that contribute to the objectives of the program while reflecting local realities, community needs and opportunities. Projects must meet one of the following Reaching Home Directives:

  • Housing Services
  • Prevention and Shelter Diversion
  • Client Support Services
  • Capital Investments
  • Coordination of Resources and Data Collection

Applications closed on January 15, 2024, at 4:30 pm for Reaching Home funding available under the Designated Communities Stream for the fiscal years: 2024-2025 and 2025-2026.

A Community Advisory Board, consisting of representatives who understand the issues, needs and priorities of those experiencing homelessness, set the direction for how funding is allocated. The City of Kamloops, by agreement with the Government of Canada, is responsible for administering and managing the allocated funds.  All funding is contingent upon receiving funds from the Government of Canada.

Applicants will be notified in writing if their projects were successful or not.

If you have any questions, please email reachinghome@kamloops.ca.

Funded by the Government of Canada’s Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy. 

Disclaimer

All documents submitted by applicants to the City become the property of the City and may be included on a committee agenda for the purposes of evaluation, administration, and analysis. The committee agendas, together with documents submitted by applicants, will be accessible to the public via the City's website; however, the City will endeavour to protect information contained within the applicant's documents in accordance with the Province of British Columbia Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Questions about the collection, use, and disclosure of this information should be directed to the City of Kamloops FOI Coordinator at foi@kamloops.ca or call 250-828-3405.