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Shelter, Housing and Street Outreach
Shelter, Housing and Street Outreach
Toronto Homeless Help
Emergency shelter, respite sites, drop-ins, street outreach, warming centres, showers, washrooms, housing help, and pet services.
Contact: Call 311, 416-338-4766, or 1-877-338-3398 for shelter access. [toronto.ca]
Shelter, Housing and Street Outreach
Toronto Homeless Help
– Emergency shelter, respite sites, drop-ins, street outreach, warming centres, showers, washrooms, housing help, and pet services.
Contact: Call 311, 416-338-4766, or 1-877-338-3398 for shelter access. [toronto.ca]
Streets to Homes
– People aged 16 or older sleeping outside, including people living in encampments.
Provides street outreach, wellness checks, harm-reduction support, shelter referrals, housing planning, and housing follow-up. Call 311 to request outreach. The Assessment and Referral Centre is at 129 Peter Street. [toronto.ca]
Albion Neighbourhood Services Outreach Teams
– Street outreach in west Toronto, including Etobicoke and Parkdale.
The City identifies Albion Neighbourhood Services as a funded Streets to Homes outreach partner focused on Toronto’s west side. Access outreach through 311. [toronto.ca]
Fred Victor
– Housing stabilization, homelessness support, drop-in services, ID assistance, and community referrals.
Fred Victor’s Open House Drop-In and 40 Oak Street are listed among Toronto’s homelessness and identification-support services. [torontoser…rectory.ca], [torontoser…rectory.ca]
WoodGreen Community Services
– Affordable, supportive, assisted, and transitional housing, particularly for seniors, newcomers, youth, people with disabilities, and people who have experienced homelessness.
WoodGreen also provides employment, financial counselling, childcare, youth, disability, mental-health, and family services. [woodgreen.org], [woodgreen.org]
The Neighbourhood Group Community Services
– Urban health, homelessness, housing, harm reduction, seniors, newcomers, employment, community development, and grassroots support.
TNG provides services across multiple life stages and operates community programs involving housing, urban health, homelessness, independent living, newcomers, children, youth, and seniors. [tngcommunityto.org]
Health Care Without Stable Housing
Street Health
– People experiencing homelessness who need low-barrier health and social support.
Services include drop-in nursing without requiring a health card, wound care, mental-health case management, harm reduction, identification assistance, shelter help, referrals, overdose prevention, and service coordination. [streethealth.ca]
Inner City Health Associates
– Specialized medical care for people living outside, in shelters, encampments, drop-ins, or precarious housing.
ICHA provides shelter- and outreach-based primary care, psychiatry, substance-use support, refugee and migrant care, youth psychiatry, and mobile palliative care through its PEACH program. [icha-toronto.ca]
Visit Inner City Health Associates
Regent Park Community Health Centre
– Homelessness outreach, harm reduction, health-card assistance, and replacement identification.
Its Homelessness, Outreach and Harm Reduction Program and Health Card Kiosk and Identification Replacement Clinic are listed in Toronto’s service directory. [torontoser…rectory.ca]
Toronto Harm-Reduction Service Map
– Finding safer-use supplies and harm-reduction services throughout Toronto.
Toronto Public Health supports a network of agencies and access points, including community health centres, shelters, Indigenous agencies, AIDS-service organizations, and neighbourhood organizations. Contact individual locations to verify current services and hours. [toronto.ca]
Find Toronto harm-reduction locations
Mobile Outreach and Basic Necessities
Ve’ahavta Outreach Vans
– People experiencing homelessness who need mobile access to meals and essential supplies.
The Mobile Jewish Response to Homelessness vans provide hot meals, food, weather-appropriate clothing, hygiene items, sleeping bags, blankets, harm-reduction supplies, and referrals to shelter, mental-health, and addiction services. Call 416-964-5572 for information about current stops. [veahavta.org]
View Ve’ahavta mobile outreach
Toronto Health and Social Services Directory
– Finding smaller or highly localized services.
The directory can be searched for street outreach, meals, shelters, ID clinics, transportation, housing programs, health care, refugee supports, and services for people without health insurance. [torontoser…rectory.ca], [torontoser…rectory.ca], [torontoser…rectory.ca]
Search Toronto homelessness services
Identification and Documentation Support
Street Health Identification Services
– People experiencing homelessness who need help obtaining or replacing identification.
Street Health lists identification support among its core services. [streethealth.ca]
Toronto ID Clinics Directory
– Finding local help replacing health cards and other identification.
Listed providers include Street Health, Regent Park Community Health Centre, Fred Victor, Covenant House, LOFT Community Services, Yonge Street Mission, PASAN, The Neighbourhood Group, Friends of Ruby, and Dixon Hall. [torontoser…rectory.ca]
Indigenous-Led Support
Na-Me-Res
– Indigenous people seeking culturally grounded outreach, housing, primary care, mental-health, substance-use, or aftercare support.
Na-Me-Res provides mobile Indigenous street outreach involving support workers and Elders, as well as temporary, transitional and permanent housing, housing aftercare, and culturally grounded health services. [nameres.org], [nameres.org]
Native Women’s Resource Centre of Toronto
– Indigenous women, girls, children, and families.
Services include housing outreach and stabilization, shelter connections, hygiene resources, family-violence support, case management, education, employment support, family programming, referrals, home visits, and culturally grounded wellness services. [nwrct.ca]
View Native Women’s Resource Centre programs
Toronto Indigenous Resource Directory
– Finding Indigenous-led housing, health, family, legal, employment, training, and cultural services.
The directory includes Anduhyaun, Na-Me-Res, Wigwamen Housing, Nishnawbe Homes, Anishnawbe Health Toronto, Native Child and Family Services, Aboriginal Legal Services, Miziwe Biik, and Toronto Council Fire. [INDIGENOUS…er Network]
Explore Toronto Indigenous resources
2SLGBTQ+ Housing and Support
The 519
– 2SLGBTQ+ adults who are leaving homelessness, moving into housing, or facing eviction.
The 519 provides housing-stabilization case management and resource connections. It also operates the intake and programming pathway for Pacewood, a shelter for eligible 2SLGBTQ+ adult newcomers arriving through a refugee pathway. Call 416-392-6874 regarding Pacewood eligibility and bed availability. [the519.org]
Friends of Ruby
– 2SLGBTQIA+ youth seeking counselling, support, referrals, or housing-related assistance.
YMCA Sprott House
– 2SLGBTQIA+ youth needing transitional housing.
The YMCA describes Sprott House as transitional housing for young people aged 16 to 24. Its broader youth-housing services include emergency shelter, drop-in support, housing stabilization, case management, health, employment, mental-health, and legal-service connections. [ymcagta.org]
Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Wagner Green YMCA
– Youth aged 16 to 24 needing emergency shelter or drop-in support.
The program offers emergency shelter, harm-reduction and trauma-informed support, housing assistance, and connections to medical, mental-health, employment, and legal services. Call 416-504-9700. [ymcagta.org]
View YMCA youth housing services
Covenant House Toronto
–Young people requiring emergency shelter, health care, community support, or ID assistance.
Covenant House appears in Toronto’s shelter, street-support, health, and identification-service listings. Its listed crisis number is 416-593-4849. [211central.ca], [torontoser…rectory.ca], [torontoser…rectory.ca]
Access Alliance Youth Services
– Immigrant and refugee youth, including 2SLGBTQI+ newcomer youth.
Free services include group activities, peer mentoring, one-to-one support, settlement counselling, primary health care, mental-health therapy, dietitian services, and volunteer opportunities. [accessalliance.ca]
Explore Access Alliance youth programs
Mental-Health and Crisis Support
Toronto Community Crisis Service
– A community-led, non-police response to some mental-health and substance-use crises and wellness checks.
Call 211 or 911. Calls are triaged based on the situation, location, and team availability. [camh.ca]
Gerstein Crisis Centre
– People who need immediate crisis support or someone to speak with.
Call 416-929-5200. CAMH lists Gerstein among Toronto’s 24-hour crisis resources and mobile-response services. [camh.ca]
988 Suicide Crisis Helpline
Call or text 988 if you are thinking about suicide or are concerned about someone else. For immediate danger, call 911. [camh.ca]
View CAMH’s crisis resource list
Women and Gender-Based Support
LOFT 416 Community Support for Women
– Women experiencing homelessness, mental-health challenges, or significant housing instability.
The service is included in Toronto’s homelessness and identification-support directory. Contact 416-928-3334 to confirm current eligibility and services. [torontoser…rectory.ca], [torontoser…rectory.ca]
Nellie’s
– Women and children seeking shelter or community support related to violence, homelessness, or housing instability.
Nellie’s shelter and community outreach services appear in Toronto’s homelessness and street-outreach listings. [211central.ca], [torontoser…rectory.ca]
Assaulted Women’s Helpline
Call 416-863-0511 or 1-866-863-0511 for crisis support. [camh.ca]
People Leaving Correctional Systems
PASAN
– Prisoners and formerly incarcerated people affected by HIV, hepatitis C, substance use, or related health and social-service barriers.
PASAN is listed within Toronto’s homelessness and identification-support directory. Call 416-920-9567 or toll-free 1-866-224-9978 to confirm current services. [torontoser…rectory.ca]
Seniors and People with Disabilities
Toronto Specialized Services for Seniors
– Indigenous, Black, Francophone, newcomer, 2SLGBTQI+, disabled, veteran, and culturally diverse seniors.
The City maintains a specialized directory and recommends using 211 Central for additional matching based on need, language, culture, identity, or disability. [toronto.ca]
Explore specialized senior services
WoodGreen Assisted and Supportive Housing
– Seniors and people with disabilities who require affordable housing with varying levels of support.
WoodGreen offers affordable, supportive, transitional, co-operative, and assisted-living housing connected to community-care services. [woodgreen.org]