[homeles_ot-l] Youth homelessness - some great news for Lanark County!

[Lynne Browne]

Hello all,

 

Julie Rose, previously at Ottawa’s Rideau Street Youth Enterprises, now has
a new position and sent in this great news for eastern Ontario and the
Ottawa area. The media release she mentions now follows below.

 

Lynne Browne

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Good morning,

I've attached the original media release regarding the grant for Transitions
Action Coalition.

Your assistance is very much appreciated. Keep up the good work.

Regards,

Julia Rose
Transitions Action Coalition 
Project Coordinator
c/o Open Doors for Lanark Children and Youth
Unit A1, 88 Cornelia Street W.,
Smiths Falls, ON  K7A 5K9
Phone (613) 283-8260 ext. 226
Fax (613) 283-8757
HYPERLINK "mailto:jrose at opendoors.on.ca"jrose at opendoors.on.cab

 

Media Release

 

Lanark County, Ontario, April 2007 – “Under one Virtual Roof” a project of
intervention for homeless youth in Lanark County has been funded by the
Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) to the tune of  $249 000.00 over the next
three years.

 

The OTF awarded this province-wide grant to Open Doors for Lanark Children
and Youth on behalf of the Transitions Action Coalition (Transitions) a
group representing a number of service providers across Lanark County whose
main focus is youth homelessness.  

 

The OTF will fund the hiring of a Transitions Project Coordinator to oversee
the implementation of the “Under One Virtual Roof” model of intervention.  

 

“Under One Virtual Roof” will take into consideration the demographical and
geographical uniqueness of Lanark County and will provide housing, supports
and programming in a pragmatic way to homeless youth and youth at risk of
becoming homeless. 

 

Transitions will also be working in partnership with the Sudbury Action
Centre, Sudbury, Ontario and the Chatham Teen Centre Salvation Army
Community and Family Services, Chatham, Ontario to coordinate the project in
all three areas of the province.  

 

 Transitions has been working diligently, on limited funding and staffing,
since 2002 to address the complex needs of homeless youth and now thanks to
the OTF funds can provide practical assistance to these youth.

 

The Ontario Trillium Foundation, one of Canada’s leading grant-making
foundations, is an agency of the Ministry of Culture and distributes $100
million of government funding each year generated through Ontario’s charity
casino initiative.  The foundation allocates grants to eligible charitable
and not-for-profit organizations in the arts and culture, environment, human
and social services and sports and recreation sectors.  For more
information, visit HYPERLINK
"http://www.trilliumfoundation.org/"www.trilliumfoundation.org.

 

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Contact Information for Transitions Action Coalition

c/o Nicki Collins, Executive Director

Open Doors for Lanark Children and Youth

40 Bennet Street

Carleton Place, ON

613-257-8260 x23

 


 

 

Lynne Browne 
Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness 
147 Besserer Street, Ottawa ON  K1N 6A7 
613-241-7913 x 205, lbrowne at ysb.on.ca 
www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca 

 


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