Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy Program 2025

Deadline: 30-May-25

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.

The City of Kamloops, by agreement with the Government of Canada, is the Community Entity to manage and administer the Designated Communities stream of Reaching Home funding in Kamloops.

The City of Kamloops works with a Community Advisory Board, which is a local organizing committee responsible for setting direction for addressing homelessness in Kamloops, to adjudicate the proposals for funding.

Reaching Home Directives

• Priority 1: Housing Services 
  • Housing services are those that lead to an individual or family transitioning into more stable housing that has been deemed appropriate and safe. Housing can be transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, housing and indigenous housing.
• Priority 2: Prevention and Shelter Diversion 
  • Prevention includes activities aimed at preventing homelessness by supporting individuals and families at imminent risk of homelessness before a crisis occurs. Shelter diversion is a tool used to prevent the use of emergency shelters by providing individualized supports when families and individuals are seeking to enter the emergency shelter system
• Priority 3: Client Support Services 
  • Client support services include individualized services to help improve integration and connectedness to support structures, such as the provision of basic needs and treatment services. They may also include services to support the economic, social and cultural integration of individuals and families.
• Priority 4: Capital Investments 
  • Capital investments are intended to increase the capacity or improve the quality of facilities that address the needs of individuals and families who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness, including those that support culturally appropriate programming for Indigenous individuals and families.
• Priority 5: Coordination of Resources and Data Collection 
  • Coordination of resources refers to activities that:
    • enable communities to organize and deliver diverse services in a coordinated manner and/or
    • support the implementation of the Homeless Individuals and Families Information System (HIFIS) or the alignment of an existing Homeless Management Information System with federal coordinated access requirements.

Funding Information

• There is no restriction on the amount of funding an applicant may request for. The quantity and quality of proposals received will determine the number of projects funded and the amount of funding each project receives.
• Funding is available for projects starting as early as September 2025 and running until March 31, 2028.

Eligible Activities

• Priority 1: Housing Services 
  • Example of eligible activities: housing placement; emergency housing funding; housing set-up.
• Priority 2: Prevention and Shelter Diversion 
  • Example of eligible activities: discharge planning; help obtaining or retaining housing; landlord liaison; advice on financial management; activities to avert eviction including legal advice; emergency assistance; moving costs; short-term financial assistance.
• Priority 3: Client Support Services 
  • Example of eligible activities: Basic needs services; clinical and treatment services; economic integration services, and social and community integration services.
• Priority 4: Capital Investments 
  • Example of eligible activities: renovations; repairs; new construction; developing new facilities; operational equipment, and supplies.
• Priority 5: Coordination of Resources and Data Collection 
  • Example of eligible activities: Developing and implementing Coordinated Access; Point in Time Count; HIFIS implementation; projects that facilitate the coordination of housing and homelessness service; public engagement and soliciting feedback regarding housing and homelessness.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible applicants:
  • Individuals (e.g. independent contractors)
  • Not-for-profit organizations
  • For-profit organizations (provided that the nature and intent of the activity is non-commercial and not intended to generate profit)
  • Municipalities
  • Off-reserve Indigenous organizations
  • Indigenous organizations providing activities off-reserve (on-reserve costs are not eligible expenses)
  • Public health and educational institutions
  • Provincial and territorial governments and their entities, including institutions, agencies and Crown Corporations
• To be eligible for funding through Reaching Home, the project activities must take place within the municipal boundaries of the City of Kamloops, British Columbia.

For more information, visit City of Kamloops.