Our Programs
Homeless Connect Toronto has been helping individuals impacted by homelessness connect directly to resources and supports in the community since 2013. Navigating supports when you’re experiencing homelessness can be so challenging, especially when the system can be so fragmented and confusing.
Homeless Connect Toronto collaborates with individuals, frontline staff, community agencies and businesses easier - one connection at a time. We bridge the gap and connect our clients directly to the services they need.
Whether you are seeking supports for yourself, friends or family members, a community member, or working in the social service sector, we’d love to get connected to you through any of our programs.
One-Stop-Shop Events
Homeless Connect Toronto coordinates one-stop-shop events, connecting individuals impacted by homelessness to the resources they need in the community.
Homeless Connect Toronto hosts an annual large one-stop-shop each October at the Mattamy Athletic Centre (former Maple Leaf Gardens).
Since 2020, Homeless Connect Toronto has added Community Connect events, a smaller more intimate one-stop-shop in partnership with local community agencies across the city.
PeerConnectTO is a pilot project, in partnership with Mentor/Mentee Canada and WoodGreen Community Housing. Our goal with this project is to develop a peer-led training and employment program for individuals with lived experience of homelessness to become PeerConnectors.
Eighteen tenants participated in a 10-week training program. In May 2023, we hired six of these participants as our PeerConnectors to meet and support individuals in the community.
PeerConnectTO
Everyday Connect is a 24/7 portal that will help you find trusted service providers for your needs, close to home. It is a curated, direct referral hub for supports in Toronto.
Everyday Connect
Journeys to Home is our qualitative research project focused on first-person perspectives on what makes a home. We followed and spoke with individuals on a continuum of housing experiences.
Visit our site to see and hear these stories, as well as practical ways that housing providers can include lived experience voices in their programs.
Journeys to Home
We believe that knowledge is a catalyst for change. There are many misconceptions about homelessness and why people are and stay homeless. At Homeless Connect Toronto, one of our mission objectives is to raise awareness about homelessness issues. In doing so, we hope for a better future for our community - one where we can change so many of these misconceptions and make changes towards systemic issues that lead to and keep people homeless.
We have often hosted speaker series and documentary film screenings to highlight topics and issues relating to homelessness.
Follow us on social media where we share up-to-date and current news about homelessness in Toronto.