Victims of trauma should not need to be concerned about the financial resources needed to find and obtain the care they need to recover from the traumatic experiences they have endured.

Canada has one of the best housing systems in the world. As a result, almost 80% of Canadians living in Canada have their housing needs met through the existing marketplace, supported by Canadian housing finance activities. Canadian mortgage loan insurance, for example, helps borrowers get financing at competitive rates, thereby creating a high percentage of obtainable housing.

But not all Canadians have the financial means to access or compete within the Canadian housing market. The Canadian marketplace, too, isn’t always able to meet the unique and everchanging housing needs of certain groups within society, such as people with disabilities, or those comping with sudden trauma or loss. In these cases, governments, community stakeholders, community organizations, non-profits and the private sector partners need to work together to provide affordable housing to those in need.

If you or someone you know needs support to access a safe, affordable place to live, there are many different emergency and affordable housing options available. Whether you are looking for an emergency, short-term, or long-term housing solution, Trauma Helpline will connect you with the resources to hopefully make it quick and easy to find the help you need.

Subsidized housing is rent‐geared‐to‐income or RGI housing, and is based on 30 percent of a household gross monthly income, or if the household is receiving assistance from Ontario Works or the Ontario Disability Support Program, a social assistance rent scale is applied.

Much of Canada’s social housing was built between 1946 and 1993. The federal government strives to make continued and substantial investments into the existing social housing stock in order to maintain pace with the needs of Canadians.

In 2016 , the federal government provided almost $1,700,000,000.00 to support over 536,000 households living in social housing projects or communities. Provinces and territories act as administrators for the 80% of the agreements with social housing providers.

Affordable Housing Centre works with social housing providers to help keep their housing projects financially viable for the long term.

The primary focus will be on meeting the needs of vulnerable populations, such as women and children fleeing family violence, seniors, Indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, those dealing with mental health and addiction issues, veterans and young adults

Affordable housing experts help build or preserve affordable housing, provide personalized support, including local expertise, networking opportunities and financial assistance. It is important to understand the community needs, and to work with community partners, and community stakeholders to offer solutions for local housing challenges.

The following is a list of required documents that must be provided with your application for everyone listed on the application form. Some items may not apply to some individuals.

Trauma can come from all different types of incidents that may occur within an individuals life. Trauma Helpline works with community partners, existing infrastructure, programs and experts to help take the stress out of finding the support and assistance you or your loved ones need to deal with the Trauma they have endured, and find the next steps, and next path forward for you and for your loved ones. Trauma Helpline strives to assist all persons suffering from a traumatic event, with special focus on:

Food security, may be defined as the assurance that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs.

Over the coming decades, a changing environmental and social climate, growing and expanding population, rising food prices, and environmental stressors will have significant and uncertain impacts on food security. Adaptation strategies for handling water allocation, land use patterns and programs, food trade, postharvest food processing, and food prices and safety are urgently needed.

Household food security is considered to exist when all members, at all times, have access to enough food for an active, healthy life.

Individuals who are food secure do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. Food insecurity, on the other hand, is defined as a situation of “limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.

Food insecurity can be transitory, seasonal, or chronic

Transitory food insecurity: Food may be unavailable during certain periods of time.

Seasonal food insecurity: Is a form of transitory food insecurity in that food may not be available due to the time or duration of crops, harvest or harvesting factors like social instability, drought or civil conflicts.

Chronic (or permanent) food insecurity: Is defined as the long-term, persistent lack of adequate food.

Food access refers to the affordability and allocation of food, as well as the preferences of individuals and households. The causes of hunger and malnutrition are often not a scarcity of food but an inability to access available food, usually due to poverty. Poverty can limit access to food, and can also increase how vulnerable an individual or household is to food price spikes. With the changing economic climate in today’s society, some individuals and households require social assistance in order to achieve food security, and food access despite their participation and existence in a first-world economy.

At Trauma Helpline, we believe that food security for all people should be one of the primary focuses of governing and regulatory bodies throughout the globe. Trauma Helpline believes that without food security, all people will be continually cast into a never ending cycle of trauma, and will be continually traumatized by that food insecurity.

There are many community, provincial and faith based programs which aim to assist individuals and families in achieving food security for themselves, and their families. Our goal is to create food security programs throughout our network of sponsors, partners, volunteers and affiliates in order to help all people achieve this security.