Niagara Assertive Street Outreach (NASO) Team
Serving Niagara Region
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Referrals to NASO: 2-1-1
Short Description
Actively engages individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness to promote, connect, and coordinate access to the range of supports available across Niagara's Homeless-Serving System, including emergency shelter, housing and support services.
Proactively engages and responds to requests in the community for individuals in public spaces, who, for example, may be 'sleeping rough' or living outdoors (e.g. sleeping in a car, living in an encampment etc.). Assertive Street Outreach workers are focused on ending the experience of homelessness, particularly for those who would otherwise be underserved in traditional settings.
Street-based outreach ensures that trained workers respond directly and immediately to a person's needs by bringing coordinated services from across the Homeless-Serving System to the individual, rather than waiting for them to seek services on their own.
These services aim to:
Proactively engages and responds to requests in the community for individuals in public spaces, who, for example, may be 'sleeping rough' or living outdoors (e.g. sleeping in a car, living in an encampment etc.). Assertive Street Outreach workers are focused on ending the experience of homelessness, particularly for those who would otherwise be underserved in traditional settings.
Street-based outreach ensures that trained workers respond directly and immediately to a person's needs by bringing coordinated services from across the Homeless-Serving System to the individual, rather than waiting for them to seek services on their own.
These services aim to:
- Proactively engage with people sleeping rough to facilitate pathways into housing
- Minimize the harmful effects of rough sleeping while working towards long-term housing solutions
- Provide standardized intake, triage, and assessment to assess a person's vulnerability and assist in the identification of appropriate housing resources
- Deliver case coordination in collaboration with government and non-profit organizations to support those who may be reluctant to access traditional services
- Provide an intensive and coordinated team approach to identify and work towards personal goals
- Gateway Residential & Community Support Services of Niagara Inc. (in partnership with Southridge Community Church)
- Niagara Resource Service for Youth (The RAFT)
- Port Colborne Community Association for Resource Extensions (Port Cares)
- Niagara Region Community Services
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Serving Ontario
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Office: 416-920-1633
55 University Ave, 15th Fl
Toronto, ON, M5J 2H7
Toronto, ON, M5J 2H7
Short Description
Community legal clinic
Childhood Arrivals Support and Advocacy (CASA) - outreach, legal representation and support for young people up to 25, who arrived in Canada and live in Ontario without immigration status
Your Way Forward - expanded and enhanced services to survivors of gender-based violence
- legal representation in many areas of law including education, criminal matters, child welfare, human rights, financial assistance or support and leaving home
- legal information and assistance to youth, professionals and community groups
- also to parents in limited circumstances
- community development and outreach
- advocacy
- seminars
- accepts collect calls
- funded by Legal Aid Ontario
Childhood Arrivals Support and Advocacy (CASA) - outreach, legal representation and support for young people up to 25, who arrived in Canada and live in Ontario without immigration status
Your Way Forward - expanded and enhanced services to survivors of gender-based violence
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