Human Resources committee  Wraparound supports are key to housing and stability, because individuals who have been homeless long term often do not have the skill sets or the relationships in place to navigate having and keeping a home. If you have been out on the streets for five, 10 or 20 years, like some

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  Thank you for your question, Ms. Chabot. In terms of the systems advocacy piece and what we envision with our indigenous homelessness plan, the question is “how can we affect the system so that so many indigenous peoples do not experience homelessness in the first place?” We k

Human Resources committee  Yes, a livable income is crucial to ensuring that indigenous homelessness for youth aging out of care does not reach epidemic proportions. In our team, we often talk about Jordan's principle, and everyone, I'm sure, knows Jordan's principle. It's to address the inequities faced

Human Resources committee  Yes, we have relocated our resting space into hotels. We've been able to completely change the model. Out of hotels, we're able to offer a transitional support model, which long term, is much more effective than emergency shelters for housing stability.

Human Resources committee  Thank you for that question. It's an excellent question. It brings up something really interesting, which is the jurisdictional piece. We live in extremely close proximity to three communities, and we see that migration to and from the communities. The on-reserve community that

Human Resources committee  We offer a variety of programs, very small starting. We have street outreach. We have rapid rehousing programs. We have two housing support workers, and one of them works out of a supportive housing unit. We also offer the resting space. When I say “resting space”, it's a concept

Human Resources committee  We've had one street outreach worker. We have the one indigenous street outreach worker in London. Sometimes the street outreach worker might pair up with another worker just for safety so that we have two people on at all times. Ultimately, the goal of that worker is to go out

Human Resources committee  Absolutely, and especially because street outreach is where so much of the data gathering happens in the community. In London, we use the HIFIS system. We use a shared database called HIFIS, in which indigenous status is tracked. We've had many conversations in the community abou

Human Resources committee  I think Mr. Deleary may be having issues with his devices. I'm going to introduce myself in the Ojibwa language to start. [Witness spoke in Ojibwa] Hi, my name is Andrea Jibb and I am a member of the Métis Nation. I live in London, Ontario, where I am the director of communit