I can definitely talk about having these dedicated supports, as many people have talked about in a lot of presentations here. We all know that the needs of survivors are vast, and providing supports to them through one agency does not meet their needs. Really, it requires a collaborative approach to have those types of services and community come together so that it's not just one program or one service providing them.
For instance, in the nCourage hub, there's a collection of a number of agencies. There are funded agencies such as us, as well as Our Place Peel and Catholic Family Services, that provide supports and connections, but we also work with 40-plus other service agencies in our community that also provide supports and services that are accessed through the nCourage Hub so that we're able to ensure that survivors are able to come to one spot. We ensure that they do not have to tell their story multiple times and that they are able to access the support they need. That would include the houses. We do have a dedicated safe house and a transition house to support survivors.
We talked in our recommendations about the need for that full continuum, because we still do not have immediate beds for survivors who may not be ready or able to disengage from traffickers or for those who do not want to engage in intensive supports that may be associated with safe houses or transitional houses.
We need to be able to provide multiple supports as well as on the other end, when survivors are exiting these supports. They also need rent geared to income, portable housing benefits and other types of independent housing and rent supplements that help them to be able to access the housing they need instead of being put back into precarious situations where that they could be more readily victimized.