ALLIANCE PARTNERS

Supportive Housing Advocacy Waterloo Region (SHAWR) is a collaborative of Trinity United and the Hub Community Network, bringing together faith communities, organizations and concerned citizens around supportive housing needs.

The Hub Community Network is a grassroots ministry that empowers youth and young adults to live out faith and justice. They are co-producers of the "Winter is Coming" housing justice Podcast.

House of Friendship walks with people who need food, housing, addiction treatment and community resources. For the past 85 years, House of Friendship has served within Waterloo Region, with a vision of building a community where everyone can belong and thrive. 

The Working Centre has extensive on-the-ground community partnerships and works closely with almost all the organizations that are involved with the WRAEH network.

Indwell is a Christian charity that creates affordable housing communities and encourages tenant success through housing health, social and housing supports.

Supportive Housing of Waterloo (SHOW) provides housing and a continuum of supports to those who have experienced homelessness and encountered barriers to fundamental rights to safe and affordable housing.

Sanguen is a not-for-profit, community-based health care agency where we believe to our core that people living in at-risk communities deserve compassionate support and accurate information about their health in order to make informed choices.

YMCA of Three Rivers is a charity dedicated to making our diverse communities healthier and more vibrant. With dignity and respect, our programs and services inspire individuals to reach their full potential. 

Trinity United Church was an original Out of The Cold site. With proceeds of sale of their historic building they remain committed to a mission of housing justice and supportive housing.  

Beyond Housing's mission is to create homes for people in need of affordable housing. We develop housing that is economically and environmentally sustainable and includes supportive services.

Citizens for Cambridge is a volunteer-based organization dedicated to harnessing the passion, ingenuity and commitment of Cambridge citizens to support the development of a better community for all.

Waterloo Region Yes in my Backyard (WRYIMBY) is a grassroots community group that advocates for allowing more types of housing in all neighbourhoods of Waterloo Region.

Basic Income Waterloo Region is committed to seeing a basic income implemented to address socio-economic problems including affordability and the right to housing for all.

Community Healthcaring KW offers evidence-informed, innovative healthcare for anyone facing barriers to health services, including people who are newcomers, refugees, unhoused or precariously housed.

The Cambridge Council on Aging is a forum to increase the civic involvement of seniors, to mobilize, advocate and raise awareness  to make Cambridge an age-friendly community.

Forest Hill United Church is a faith community in Kitchener. Their mission is to celebrate God, to be in community, to reach out to others.

Church of St. John the Evangelist are a caring presence in the heart of the City of Kitchener and have hosted the Soup Kitchen for the Working Centre for many years. Mission is the bedrock of all we are, do, and say as the people of God.

The Lynn Macaulay Legacy Project has a mandate to raise resources to support organizations that are working to end chronic homelessness in Waterloo Region.

Wesley United Church in Cambridge is an original Out of the Cold site and was instrumental in the development of The Bridges, the only emergency shelter in Cambridge for individuals experiencing homelessness.

Waterloo Age-Friendly Network lives to create an age-friendly community, inclusive and accessible to all during their life, while supporting the older adult to age in the place of their choosing. Their vision is a community in which we can all live and age well.

The Social Development Centre Waterloo Region the creation of community wide solutions to poverty, homelessness and grassroots organizing, ensuring that lived experience is the basis for collective action towards change in policies and service delivery.