Housing

Scattered Site Housing Team

The scattered site housing team will assist individuals and families experiencing homelessness to secure and maintain long-term housing. They can provide tools to remove barriers causing homelessness and assist people with gaining a sense of hope and safety while maintaining permanent housing. The program will provide case management to individuals and families.

If you are experiencing homelessness and your name is not on a lease and you need case management please call Coordinated Entry to complete an intake. Once an assessment is completed you will be matched with an appropriate housing program based on your needs including the Outreach Centre housing team.

Coordinated Entry:

Safe Harbour 403-347-0181

Red Deer Native Friendship Centre: 403-340-0020

Housing Outreach

Intake process

Walk in Clients at the Outreach Centre complete a pre-intake form allowing us to identify their immediate needs. Once we have assessed the concerns, they would be referred with the appropriate outreach worker.

Housing

If housing is a concern for you we will evaluate your situation and if you meet the criteria for the Red Deer Housing Team you will do a housing assessment by our partner agency (Safe Harbour Society). If you qualify you will meet with one of the Housing Team to start working on finding suitable housing. If the criteria is not met we will supply a Housing package and some support may be available.

Rural Outreach

Rural Outreach brings the programs that we have available to the individual communities within Central Alberta. The Outreach Centre works with the individual communities providing access to information, advocacy, education and referrals. Our aim is to provide rural residents one to one support that helps individuals identify internal strengths and coping skills as well as external resources if needed.

Personal care program

Our personal care program consists of basic products for our existing clients, our staff will assess their needs on an individual basis and help with supplying products for them.

Homeless Prevention Program

Homeless Prevention Program serves those individuals and families who are at risk of losing their home or have been homeless for a short time. This program is a rapid response intervention providing support to stop an eviction or disconnection notice. It is a one-time assistance program to be used as a last resort once all other options have been explored. The program may help secure new housing if the current housing cannot be saved.

Please find the application on the Outreach Centre website under housing. Supporting documents will be reviewed to determine eligibility. If the program is full or backed up the city has two other prevention programs that can be accessed including Shinning Mountains or Native Friendship Centre.

To apply for this program, fill out the application form below. Completed forms can be submitted to: tamara@caoutreach.ca. You will be contacted by our Prevention Support Worker.

Please note that this process is dependent on your unique circumstance, with priority given to supporting people with imminent evictions or disconnections.