Emergency Shelter And Support For Families
Households requiring temporary/emergency accommodation may be referred to the emergency shelter and support program for families.
Cornerstone partners with a variety of motels across the Durham Region to provide families facing homelessness with temporary accommodation. Participants of the program are required to work one on one with a Community and Family Case Manager to reach their goals. Some goals include securing housing, income security, obtaining childcare, food security, community referrals, medical needs, financial literacy support and any other support the family may require.
Eligibility for this program includes:
- Single fathers with dependent children without a “dwelling place” and who cannot be accommodated by area hostel/shelter operators
- Couples with dependent children
- Two person households/couples who are living together and who cannot be separated due to health or other extenuating circumstances
- Single person household with extraordinary medical circumstances, whose confirmed medical condition would place the individual or other hostel residents at risk if referred to a shared living environment (i.e. confirmed contagious health condition)
- Expecting couples
- Families must be financially ineligible to afford alternative emergency accommodation
- The eviction must be immediate (i.e. the sheriff is coming on the day they are accessing emergency accommodation)
- The previous dwelling place was a Durham Region residence
- All household members have legal status in Canada, have applied for legal status in Canada, or are refugee claimants
- No member of the household is under a removal order to leave Canada
- The total household assets are within the allowable limits
- The total gross household income is within the allowable limits
To assess the program during business hours, call 905-438-0254, ext. 3440 or ext. 3490, and after business hours call 905-433-0254 ext. 2280 or 2380.
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