Deadline: 6-Jul-23
The Government of Canada is inviting proposals for the Veteran Homelessness Program to prevent and reduce the veteran homelessness in Canada.
Purpose
The program delivers contributions funding through two streams:
- The Services and Supports Stream
- The Services and Supports Stream will focus on the delivery of rent supplements and wrap-around services (such as counselling and addiction treatment) to Veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
- The Capacity Building Stream
- The Capacity Building Stream will focus on research and improved data collection on Veteran homelessness, as well as increased capacity of organizations to deliver tailored initiatives to address the needs of Veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
Funding Information
- The Services and Supports Stream
- Up to $72.9 million over 5 years is available for contributions funding under this stream.
- The maximum level of financial support approved per project under this stream will not exceed $6.5 million over five years.
- The Capacity Building Stream
- Up to $6.2 million is available over five years for contributions funding under this stream.
- The maximum level of financial support approved per project under this stream will not exceed $1.5 million over five years.
- Duration: The maximum duration of contribution agreements for selected projects is five years.
Eligible Projects
- Services and Supports Stream
- Through this Call for Proposals, Infrastructure Canada (INFC) aims to identify organizations with the administrative capacity and expertise to deliver rent supplements and wrap-around supports to Veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness, or to distribute funding to other service delivery organizations to perform these functions.
- Projects are eligible under the Services and Supports Stream include:
- Rent supplements are social assistance payments to help pay for the cost of rental housing for individuals and families by “bridging the gap” between what an individual and family can afford to pay and the actual cost of housing.
- Wrap around supports consist of, among other things, connecting Veterans with comprehensive and integrated, multi-disciplinary teams of professionals. This includes social workers, homelessness and housing workers, addictions and mental health counsellors, and peer support workers.
- Capacity Building Stream
- The Capacity Building Stream aims to support research on Veteran homelessness; develop and utilize effective approaches; collect data to address the needs of Veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness; and develop and expand the capacity of organizations operating in the homelessness and Veteran-serving sectors.
- Types of projects that could be eligible under the Capacity Building Stream include:
- supporting research and analysis on the specific needs and challenges faced by Veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness, including Veteran sub-populations (e.g., Indigenous, women, seniors, racialized, gender-diverse and rural-based Veterans);
- organizing learning and development opportunities (e.g. awareness/competency training) to improve an organization’s capacity to serve Veterans; or,
- implementing a pilot project to address Veteran homelessness.
Eligible Activities
- Services and Supports Stream
- The eligible activities under the Services and Supports Stream include:
- Activities designed to reduce Veteran homelessness, including those:
- Providing financial assistance to cover housing costs, including:
- rental and utility payments;
- rental and utility deposits.
- Connecting individuals and families to more stable housing through activities such as:
- facilitating access to housing;
- setting-up housing for clients;
- furnishing housing for clients;
- repairing damages caused by clients.
- Connecting individuals to transitional and interim housing;
- Making minor capital investments in shelters, transitional housing and permanent supportive housing to support small renovations, retrofits, and repairs;
- Connecting individuals to education, training, and employment services;
- Providing general health and medical services, including counselling and addictions support services.
- Providing financial assistance to cover housing costs, including:
- Activities designed to prevent Veterans and their families at imminent risk of homelessness from becoming homeless including those designed to:
- Divert individuals and families from the homelessness-serving system by empowering them to find solutions to their housing situation and leverage resources in the community;
- Intervene to help individuals affected by eviction, family break-up, or other types of crises who are at immediate risk of losing their accommodation, and who lack access to alternative accommodation.
- Activities to develop and expand the capacity of service providers operating in the homelessness and Veteran-serving sector, including:
- Hiring of a dedicated project manager;
- Improving the capacity of homelessness and Veteran service providers to serve Veterans.
- Activities designed to plan, coordinate and integrate responses to Veteran homelessness including those designed to:
- Collect information on Veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness;
- Support a broader systematic approach to addressing Veteran homelessness.
- Activities designed to reduce Veteran homelessness, including those:
- The eligible activities under the Services and Supports Stream include:
- Capacity Building Stream
- The eligible activities under the Capacity Building Stream include:
- Activities designed to understand, gather, analyze, and disseminate data and information about Veteran homelessness including those designed to:
- Support research and analysis;
- Collect information on Veterans experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness (including on Veteran sub-populations).
- Activities that provide innovative solutions to Veteran homelessness, including those designed to:
- Develop and test new innovative tools and resources, that can be scaled up to prevent and/or reduce Veteran homelessness;
- Pilot new project concepts including evaluation, best practices, and lessons learned.
- Activities to develop and expand the capacity of service providers operating in the homelessness and Veteran-serving sector, including:
- Hiring of a dedicated project manager;
- Improving the capacity of homelessness and Veteran service providers to serve Veterans.
- Activities designed to plan, coordinate and integrate responses to Veteran homelessness including those designed to:
- Collect information on Veterans experiencing homelessness;
- Support a broader systematic approach to addressing Veteran homelessness;
- Identify, integrate and improve services to Veterans experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness.
- Activities designed to understand, gather, analyze, and disseminate data and information about Veteran homelessness including those designed to:
- The eligible activities under the Capacity Building Stream include:
Eligibility Criteria
- For both streams, eligible applicants include:
- Not-for-profit organizations;
- Veteran-serving organizations;
- Municipalities;
- Indigenous organizations;
- Public health, research organizations, educational institutions; and,
- Provincial and Territorial Governments and their entities, including departments, agencies and Crown Corporations.
- For both streams, ineligible Applicants include :
- For profit organizations; and
- Federal entities, including federal Crown corporations.
For more information, visit Government of Canada.
