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ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS
Affordable Housing Solutions Lab
The Affordable Housing Solutions Lab (AHSL) empowers citizens to innovate, co-create and develop effective local affordable housing solutions. AHSL is part of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta.
Alberta Network of Public Housing Agencies
The Alberta Network of Public Housing Agencies (ANPHA) is the provincial industry association for the non-profit housing industry, providing a collective voice on the full range of affordable housing and homelessness issues. ANPHA membership includes organizations large and small from across the province who serve a diverse cross section of Albertans.
Alberta Rural Development Network
The Alberta Rural Development Network (ARDN) supports the sustainability of rural communities. ARDN works with communities to amplify the "rural voice". They collaborate to identify and bring focus to rural issues, build local capacity, and find innovative, rural-based solutions to unique issues.
Boyle Street Community Services
Boyle Street Community Services (BSCS) is a non-denominational organization that welcomes and serves people of all ages, backgrounds, and orientations. While BSCS is non-denominational, they acknowledge that the majority of individuals experiencing homelessness in Edmonton identify as Indigenous First Nations, and therefore incorporate Indigenous ceremonies in their practice. BSCS operates one of the city’s three Safe Injection Sites.
Canadian Mental Health Association
The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) is a nationwide organization that promotes mental health and supports people recovering from mental illness. CMHA Edmonton is the leading community mental health organization in the region, delivering key services in the areas of mental health support, education and training, wayfinding, and collective action.
The Communitas Group
Communitas is a consulting and management firm offering expertise in project planning, development, management and research. Their specialties include cooperative housing, cooperative enterprises, cohousing, energy and resource efficient design and financing, and community and policy development.
Creating Hope Society
Creating Hope Society is a non-profit society established to recognize that the sixties and seventies child welfare scoop of Aboriginal children is a continuation of the Residential Schools era. We believe that it is time to halt the cycle of Aboriginal children being separated from their families and communities.
E4C
Edmonton City Centre Church (e4c) exists with the singular goal of helping move vulnerable people toward positive, healthy and lasting change. Their main focus areas include: food security; shelter and housing; community and collaboration; and education and skill development.
Edmonton Food Bank
The Edmonton Food Bank is an affiliate member of Food Banks Canada. They are committed to the mantra: Relieving hunger today. Preventing hunger tomorrow.
Edmonton Social Planning Council
The Edmonton Social Planning Council (ESPC) is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan social research organization. Their focus is social research, particularly in the areas of low income and poverty. ESPC is a source of knowledge and expertise on social issues within our community. This includes undertaking research into the nature and magnitude of social issues in our community; public awareness and understanding of current social issues; being an independent voice in the community; encouraging public participation in the development of social policies, and the implementation of programs.
Homeward Trust
Homeward Trust is the system planner that coordinates responses to homelessness amongst all sector partners. They are the aggregator of public funds from all orders of government and leverage those resources to make accessing funding easier for frontline-serving agencies, and more coordinated in reporting on outcomes to funding partners.
Inner City Pastoral Ministry
The Inner City Pastoral Ministry (ICPM) is an inter-denominational Christian ‘ministry of presence’ for inner city people. Partners in ICPM are members of Lutheran, Anglican, Roman Catholic and United Church denominations.
Jasper Place Wellness Centre
The Jasper Place Wellness Centre (JPWC) is a Registered Charity in Edmonton. JPWC builds strong communities and people by addressing social and health-based inequities. JPWC does this by providing radically innovative, intentional health and community-based solutions that enable autonomy for individuals experiencing poverty.
The Mustard Seed
The Mustard Seed is a safe and supportive place where people experiencing problems associated with poverty and homelessness can have their physical needs met in the short term, but also begin to heal and grow mentally, emotionally, and spiritually for a better life down the road.
NiGiNan Housing Ventures
NiGiNan Housing Ventures is a registered non-profit charity formed to address particular housing needs and requirements of Indigenous people living in Edmonton. They are dedicated to providing supportive affordable housing opportunities for individuals and families of native ancestry, who have not been successfully served by any other organization in Edmonton. NiGiNan's first development, Ambrose Place is one of the most successful programs and housing complexes for Edmonton's formerly hardest to house Indigenous persons.
Operation Friendship Seniors Society
Operation Friendship Seniors Society (OFSS) is a non-profit society that provides community-based preventative social services to the seniors of Edmonton’s inner city. OFSS provides safe, affordable non-institutional housing options.
Right at Home Housing Society
Right at Home Housing Society provides a range of affordable housing solutions to meet the diverse needs of individuals and families throughout the city of Edmonton.
Terra Centre for Teen Parents
Terra Centre is a non-profit organization helping pregnant and parenting teens develop the self-reliance and skills to be successful parents. What started as a society focused on helping young moms complete their high school education is now an organization that offers a multi-faceted, comprehensive approach to helping young parents and their children reach their full potential. Terra now offers a variety of programs, including: educational supports; housing support; mental health services; early learning and childcare; post high school transition; youth leadership; and more.
Radius
Radius (formerly the Boyle McCauley Health Centre) is Edmonton’s only non-profit, community-owned and operated health centre. Radius improves the quality of life and well-being of individuals who face multiple barriers to accessing health services by addressing the broad determinants of health through evidence-informed and client-focused interprofessional care.