Community Capacity and Innovation funding stream

The Community Capacity and Innovation stream supports communities with the implementation of coordinated access and to foster innovation in the sector.

As the need for Community Capacity and Innovation funding to support the implementation of coordinated access decreases over time, resources will become available to support innovative approaches to reduce and prevent homelessness.

Communities can use Community Capacity and Innovation funding for coordinated access to, for example:

• hire a project manager to oversee local implementation;
• implement the Homeless Individuals and Families Information System (HIFIS), if the Designated Community does not already have a comparable Homelessness Management Information System to HIFIS;
• establish governance structures and implement the various elements of a coordinated access system (e.g. privacy tools for coordinated access and HIFIS implementation).

The stream will also support collaboration across the Designated Communities and Indigenous Homelessness streams where they overlap. This is done to ensure the design and implementation of the most comprehensive coordinated access systems.

Reaching Home will not require the implementation of coordinated access under the new Territorial Homelessness stream. However, communities in the territories can access Community Capacity and Innovation funding should they decide to adopt coordinated access.