Our Mandate

End Homelessness Winnipeg receives its mandate from the 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness in Winnipeg, launched in 2014. The Plan includes distinctive elements:

Adoption of a Collective Impact model that calls for stakeholders to build a common agenda, undertake in mutually reinforcing activities and engage in continuous communication with backbone support
A backbone organization to provide this support: End Homelessness Winnipeg
Ongoing engagement and collaboration of groups and organizations across all sectors that serve people who experience homelessness
Focus on homelessness prevention, at both a systems and individual level
Emphasis on Housing First, an approach that recognizes stable housing as the primary need of anyone experiencing homelessness
Commitment to increase the supply of housing, creating permanent housing alternatives to emergency shelters and unsheltered homelessness
Measurable outcomes