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Outreach Housing Team
The sole purpose of the Outreach Housing Team is to locate, engage, and house people who are homeless. Consisting of seven outreach workers, the team will work in under-serviced and unreached areas of the city where homeless people congregate.
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Housing Services
Being homeless means seldom being safe, both on the streets and in shelters. There are few safe spaces for the homeless. We believe that everyone deserves to have a safe place to call home. Our range of housing services includes our Homeless to Homes, Community Bridge and our Outreach Housing Team.
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Supportive Housing for Adults with FASD
Bissell Centre provides supportive housing for people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). This is the first such facility in Canada that offers 24 hour support services for people with FASD.
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum of Services
Our Fetal Alcohol Spectrum of Services (FASS) program provides short– and long–term supports for the well-being of adults who have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Through community development, advocacy, and intensive support, we can help improve the lives of people with FASD.
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Financial Empowerment Services
Financial Empowerment Services
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Financial Empowerment is essential to improving the lives of low-income Canadians. Bissell Centre trains its front-line staff to deliver financial empowerment services to people accessing Bissell Centre programs. The services we offer include: -
Housing Loss Prevention (Community Bridge)
The Community Bridge is a rapid response intervention providing support to stop an eviction, disconnection or foreclosure. It is a one-time assistance program to be used as a last resort once all other options have been explored. Households working with Community Bridge need to be willing to explore with us all resources available to prevent their loss of housing.
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