End Homelessness Winnipeg

08/30/2026

On International Overdose Awareness Day, we remember the lives lost to overdose, hold close those carrying grief, and recognize everyone affected by substance use and overdose, including those in recovery and the people who care for and support them.

In this video, Indigenous motivational speaker, workshop facilitator and musician Blain Constant draws from his own experiences with homelessness and sobriety. He reflects on a time when he felt unseen and how something as simple as a smile felt like a light at the end of the tunnel. It reminded him that he mattered.

That reminder is at the heart of today. Too often, conversations about substance use and homelessness lose sight of the person. Trauma, poverty, stigma, an unsafe drug supply, and barriers to housing and health care can leave people with fewer places to turn. Everyone deserves dignity, connection and support, regardless of where they are in their journey.

At End Homelessness Winnipeg, we know that ending homelessness requires systems that see the whole person, reduce harm and respond without judgment. The recent opening of Winnipeg’s new Indigenous-led supervised consumption site, operated by the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre, is an important step forward. It provides a safer space where overdoses can be prevented and people can connect with health care, treatment and other supports.

We are grateful for the work of Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre, Sunshine House, Street Connections, Main Street Project and other organizations providing vital harm reduction, substance use and recovery supports in our community.

As Blain reminds us, our brothers and sisters matter. They matter right now.

Watch the full video on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz7CRZHcfH0

If you witness or suspect an overdose, call 911.

08/28/2026

End Homelessness Winnipeg is currently looking to welcome a Senior Manager, Data, Research and HIFIS, to our team.

Reporting to the Senior Director Strategy and Impact, the Senior Manager Data, Research and HIFIS provides strategic leadership for End Homelessness Winnipeg's Homeless Individuals and Families Information System (HIFIS), data governance, research, evaluation, and system performance measurement in alignment with EHW's Strategic Plan and Reaching Home priorities.

The Senior Manager leads the collection, governance, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of data to strengthen system planning, improve housing and service outcomes, evaluate community impact, and support evidence-informed decision-making.

The position oversees the HIFIS team and strategic use of HIFIS while promoting high-quality data, collaboration, and system accountability across Winnipeg's homelessness sector.

To learn more and apply, follow the link: https://www.endhomelessnesswinnipeg.ca/careers

Application deadline: September 14 | 3:00 PM

Discover how End Homelessness Winnipeg coordinates community-led solutions, coordinated access, emergency outreach, and affordable housing in Winnipeg.

08/21/2026

What a beautiful day celebrating Ka Ni Kanichihk! ☀️❤️

Their AGM took place in the newly expanded building at 455 McDermot Avenue. After opening in a good way with prayer, children filled the room with drumming and their voices as they shared the Bear Song, bringing such joyful energy to the start of the gathering.

The celebration then moved outside for a lively community block party filled with family activities, games, live entertainment and the grand opening of Ka Ni Kanichihk’s new all-season urban sweat lodge!

EHW staff were grateful to spend the day with our relatives at Ka Ni Kanichihk and see their incredible work in action. We are proud to help fund their work and support the culturally rooted spaces, programs and connections they create for community. 🧡

08/20/2026

Finding housing can be life-changing, but for Carolina Ranville, the work does not end when someone receives their keys.

As part of The Bear Den team at Spence Neighbourhood Association, Carolina has seen people move from homelessness into a place of their own. She has also seen the motivation and confidence that can grow when someone finally has a safe and stable home.

“Not everyone has family who can give them a housewarming. In a way, that’s what the Bear Den housing staff does, by supplying them with the necessities and furnishing their home. Some people cry, and sometimes the staff cries. It shows people that they are cared about and that they can live a better life.”

The Bear Den team supports people through housing searches, applications and viewings, as well as the everyday parts of maintaining a home, like communicating with landlords and understanding Hydro bills. When someone is housed, staff also help with furniture and household essentials so their new space can begin to feel like home.

That same sense of care can be found throughout The Bear Den. Community members can access meals, clothing, hygiene supplies and free help with identification and taxes. They can also spend time with others in a place where they feel safe, welcomed and accepted.

As Carolina shared, having somewhere to go and someone to talk to can make life feel a little less lonely.

End Homelessness Winnipeg is proud to support the Bear Den at Spence Neighbourhood Association through Reaching Home.

08/18/2026

🎉 Good news! We heard you and we’re extending early bird registration for the National Conference on Ending Homelessness to Thursday, August 20.

Don’t miss your chance to take part this year. With over 100 presentations from homelessness prevention to Indigenous-led approaches to using data effectively there is sure to be something for everyone.

P.S. Thursday is also your last day to nominate for the National Homelessness Reduction Awards!

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08/13/2026

End Homelessness Winnipeg is currently looking to welcome a Manager, Prevention, to our team.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Strategy and Impact, the Manager, Prevention provides leadership, coordination and expertise to advance End Homelessness Winnipeg's prevention priorities in alignment with EHW's Strategic Plan and Reaching Home priorities.

The position works collaboratively across systems to reduce pathways into homelessness, with a particular focus on prevention strategies related to child welfare transitions, justice system involvement, health system discharges, and other institutional and systemic pathways.

In addition, the Manager, Prevention coordinates and advances homelessness prevention initiatives through partnership development, systems coordination, policy analysis, community engagement, and collaborative action. Success in this role requires the ability to influence without direct authority, build trusted relationships across sectors, and facilitate collective approaches to addressing the structural causes of homelessness.

To learn more and apply, follow the link: https://www.endhomelessnesswinnipeg.ca/careers

08/12/2026

Today, on International Youth Day, we celebrate the strength, leadership, creativity and resilience of young people in Winnipeg and around the world. 🌎

We also recognize that young people should not have to rely on resilience alone to overcome gaps in the systems meant to support them. According to the 2024 Winnipeg Street Census, 22.1% of people experiencing homelessness were under 30, and 52.0% had a history in care.

This belief is at the heart of End Homelessness Winnipeg’s youth-focused work. Through A Right to Home, we work alongside youth with lived experience and community partners to identify how supports can be strengthened for young people in and transitioning out of care. Our Duty to Assist work advocates for a rights-based approach that ensures young people at risk of homelessness receive early, coordinated support.

Since 2019, EHW has provided Reaching Home funding to youth-serving organizations and programs across Winnipeg. This funding has supported programs delivered by Shawenim Abinoonji, Resource Assistance for Youth, Ndinawemaaganag Endaawaad, Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre, and The Link Youth and Family Supports, including its Housing First program and Youth Hub.

These sector partners work alongside young people every day, providing housing support, cultural connection, outreach, advocacy and wraparound care that help create greater safety, stability and belonging.

Today, we celebrate young people and the organizations supporting them, while continuing to work toward a future where youth voices guide decisions, their rights are upheld and every young person has a safe place to call home.

Learn more: endhomelessnesswinnipeg.ca/youth

08/11/2026

Every person deserves dignity, compassion and support.

Today’s opening of Manitoba’s first supervised consumption site is an important step toward a more compassionate, person-centred response to the toxic drug crisis.

This new site will provide a safer, culturally grounded space where people can access immediate support and connect with health care, housing and social services. These connections save lives and create opportunities for healing.

As an Indigenous organization, we know that culturally grounded, Indigenous-led solutions are essential to ending homelessness and improving health outcomes. Given the disproportionate number of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people experiencing homelessness, investments in supervised consumption services must go hand-in-hand with Indigenous-led housing, healing and recovery programs shaped by Elders, Knowledge Keepers and people with lived and living experience.

Ending homelessness and responding to the toxic drug crisis requires a full continuum of care.

Congratulations to the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre, the Province of Manitoba, Sunshine House, Manitoba Harm Reduction Network and all of the community partners whose leadership and collaboration made this important service possible!

08/11/2026

We're so pleased to welcome Angela Sterritt to the mainstage at this year's National Conference on Ending Homelessness. She is an award-winning investigative journalist and the national bestselling author of Unbroken, part memoir and part investigation into the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls. Sterritt brings important perspective on how colonial policy shapes who's included and who isn't. If you're part of the movement to end homelessness, you need to hear her.

Early bird registration closes in one week: Monday, August 17...don't miss out!

https://conference.caeh.ca/event/90f36943-1023-47cf-9b37-738bb3e5e7a9/home


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Nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Angela Sterritt sur la scène principale du Congrès national pour mettre fin à l'itinérance cette année. Journaliste d'enquête primée, elle est l'auteure du best-seller national « Unbroken », à la fois récit autobiographique et enquête sur les meurtres et les disparitions de femmes et de filles autochtones. Angela Sterritt apporte un éclairage essentiel sur la façon dont les politiques coloniales déterminent qui a sa place et qui ne l'a pas. Si vous faites partie du mouvement pour mettre fin à l'itinérance, il faut l'entendre.

L'inscription anticipée à tarif préférentiel prend fin dans une semaine, le lundi 17 août. Ne tardez pas!



https://conference.caeh.ca/event/90f36943-1023-47cf-9b37-738bb3e5e7a9/home

08/10/2026

A home starts with the basics.

For more than 20 years, Oyate Tipi Cumini Yape has helped people and families access furniture and household essentials as they move into housing, leave violence, recover from crisis, or begin again after experiencing homelessness.

Today, their work includes a furniture bank, Beds for Kids, volunteer and mentorship opportunities, heat treatment, and low-cost moving services. Together, these programs help remove practical barriers that can stand in the way of stability.

As Greg Georgeson, Executive Director of Oyate Tipi, shares, the basics of a healthy life start at home.

End Homelessness Winnipeg is proud to support Oyate Tipi through Reaching Home, helping more people move into housing with dignity, safety, and the essentials needed to feel at home.