Join us and begin the end of homelessness in your community. works with dozens of communities across Canada, providing them with necessary help and connecting them to a plethora of resources to end chronic homelessness.
We are now inviting applications from communities the Built for Zero Canada (BFZ-C) movement starting in fall 2019. We anticipate adding up to an additional eight communities. BFZ-C is an ambitious national change effort helping a core group of leading communities end chronic homelessness – a first step on the path to eliminating all homelessness in Canada.
Interested communities must complete the Ìýdue June 28.
BFZ-C is building off the momentum of the 20,000 Homes Campaign, which wrapped when its 38 participating communities housed 21,254 of Canada 91Ó°ÊÓ â€™s most vulnerable Canadians.
Watch the video below and learn more about how we got here and why communities have joined the cause:
What’s in it for your community?
- A structured and supportive process with a step by step approach to ending chronic homelessness;
- Two learning sessions per year, which bring together participating BFZ-C communities to one place to learn, network, hear from experts and walk away with practical next steps, tools and more resources to get to functional zero chronic homelessness;
- Dedicated Improvement Advisors who will assist and support your work on a regular basis;
- Group and individual data support to help you;
- Group and individual community coaching;
- Access to the best and latest proven approaches to ending homelessness from the BFZ-C and expert faculty including nationally and internationally recognized experts, government partners, Away Home Canada, the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, and the CAEH Training and Technical Assistance, among many others;
- Access to a Change Package that includes all of your community data and planning tools in one place, a compendium of over 200 change ideas, and a complex problem-solving toolkit;
- Working with peers for innovation, knowledge capture and group problem-solving;
- Learn about quality improvement;
- Weekly newsletter.
We are focused on:
- helping communities adopt proven practices, deploying existing resources more efficiently, and using real-time data, rapid cycle testing and human-centred design to improve performance;
Ìý - engaging leadership from the government, private and philanthropic sectors in securing new resources for communities and removing policy roadblocks; and,
Ìý - connecting communities to one another for innovation, knowledge capture and group problem solving.
Communities can contact Built for Zero Canada Director Marie Morrison for more information: marie@caeh.ca.
Have you registered yet for the 2019 National Conference on Ending Homelessness?
Join us in Edmonton from Nov. 2-4 and walk away with the inspiration, information, tools and training you need to end homelessness. Register before August 2 to take advantage of our early bird rates. We sold out last year, be sure to secure your spot for #CAEH19 as it promises to be our biggest and best yet.