Reaching Home is a federal program designed to reduce chronic homelessness across Canada by 50% by March 2028.
Reaching Home provides financial support to urban, Indigenous, rural and remote communities to help them address homelessness prevention.
The Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition is the administrator or Community Entity (CE) of Reaching Home Territorial Stream in the Yukon and is guided by the Community Advisory Board (CAB).
Priority is given to projects that:
Next funding intake: 2026–2028 (Application details TBA)
Reaching Home funds initiatives across Yukon that support housing stability and homelessness prevention.
Community Entity (CE): YAPC administers Reaching Home Territorial Stream funding in the Yukon.
Community Advisory Board (CAB): A group of local representatives that sets priorities and coordinates efforts to address homelessness.
Coordinated Access: A system that streamlines access to housing and support services so people don’t have to tell their story multiple times.
HIFIS (Homeless Individuals and Families Information System): A shared database that helps service providers collaborate. Safe at Home is the Yukon administrator of HIFIS.
By-Name List: A real-time list of individuals experiencing homelessness to ensure resources go to those most in need. Safe at Home is the Yukon coordinator of the By-Name List.
Community Homelessness Reports: Annual reports tracking local homelessness trends and progress (see below).
Point-in-Time Count: A single-night count of people experiencing homelessness in Whitehorse, contributing to national data.
2024 Point in Time Count
2023 Point in Time Count
2021 Point in Time Count
2018 Point in Time Count
The annual Community Homelessness Reports for Reaching Home provide data into local homelessness trends, challenges, and progress made through Reaching Home funded projects.
Reaching Home 2023-24 Community Homelessness Report (PDF)
Reaching Home 2022-23 Community Homelessness Report (PDF)
Point-in-Time (PiT) Count
A PiT Count is a community-level measure of sheltered and unsheltered homelessness. It is a coordinated approach to gathering data, aiming to count or enumerate the number of people experiencing homelessness on a single night. The count also contributes to a national picture of homelessness. Typically, over 60 communities participate in this nationally coordinated initiative.
Funded by Reaching Home, the count is guided by the Community Advisory Board, administered by the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition, and implemented by the Safe at Home Society.
Safe at Home
The Safe at Home website offers tools for individuals seeking housing support, as well as insights into community strategies, partnerships, and progress related to ending homelessness in the Yukon.
Reaching Home Directives
The Housing, Infrastructure, and Communities Canada Directives for Reaching Home outline the operational requirements for funded programs, ensuring compliance and consistency. These directives help maintain a standardized approach to homelessness prevention and response efforts.
Coordinated Access Guide
The Coordinated Access Guide provides a framework for establishing a streamlined approach to connecting people with housing resources efficiently. It supports communities in creating a more accessible and responsive housing system.
Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness & Built for Zero
The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness and Built for Zero initiatives offer support, tools, and a network to aid communities in their efforts to end homelessness. These initiatives promote data-driven strategies and collaboration to achieve measurable progress in reducing homelessness.
Homeless Hub
The Homeless Hub serves as a central online resource, offering research, data, and tools to guide evidence-based homelessness prevention strategies in Canada. It provides valuable insights and best practices for policymakers, service providers, and researchers working to address homelessness.
The Community Advisory Board (CAB) is a group of community representatives that sets the direction and helps coordinate efforts to address homelessness in the Yukon.
The Community Advisory Board, currently chaired by Kate Mechan and Bill Bruton, holds regular monthly meetings, along with additional sub-committee meetings, workshops, and special sessions as needed to address emerging priorities. They also help create the Community Action Plan that outlines how the Reaching Home funding will be used over the funding cycle.
The Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition is purposefully engaged in helping create a CAB that represents the many parts of the Yukon’s community, with a goal of centring voices of people with lived or living experience and indigenous leadership. As part of this effort, the CAB and the CE will be developing a new governance structure and community plan to address homelessness throughout 2025.
The CAB is an evolving entity. Let us know if your organization could play a role on it. We will explain CAB member responsibilities to you and let you know how to go about joining the committee.
Active Member Organizations of CAB
Joanne Doyle (RH Program Officer)
she/her
(867) 332-8014
rhpo.joanne@yapc.ca
Manraj Singh (RH Program Officer)
he/him
(867) 332-4654
rhpo.manraj@yapc.ca
Madeline Porter (Community Action Plan and Goverance Coordinator)
she/her
(867) 332-5001
rhpo.madeline@yapc.ca