Emergency Housing Provides Case management services; a collaborative and planned approach to ensuring that a person who experiences homelessness gets the services and supports that they need to move forward with their lives. Originating in the mental health and addictions sector, the strategies and tools of case management can be used more broadly to support anyone who has experienced homelessness overcome challenges. It is a comprehensive and strategic form of service provision whereby a case worker assesses the needs of the client (and potentially their family) and, where appropriate, arranges, coordinates and advocates for delivery and access to a range of programs and services designed to meet the individual’s needs.

 A client-centered case management approach ensures that the person who has experienced homelessness has a major say in identifying goals and service needs, and that there is shared accountability. The goal of case management is to empower people, draw on their own strengths and capabilities, and promote an improved quality of life by facilitating timely access to the necessary supports and thus reduce the risk of homelessness and/or help them achieve housing stability. 

 Housing First

Emergency Housing believes ‘Housing First’ is a recovery-oriented approach to ending homelessness that centers on quickly moving people experiencing homelessness into independent and permanent housing and then providing additional supports and services as needed