The housing component of Maison Benoit Labre consists of offering 36 studios (1½) for homeless people living with addictions and mental health issues who use our current services.

With low threshold requirements and from a harm reduction perspective, this five (5) year transitional program aims to develop autonomy for residential stability through self-determined objectives supported and accompanied by a psychosocial intervention team.

This housing component will be linked with our future Overdose Prevention Center (CPS) as well as our Day Center to ensure a continuum of services for our future residents.

In order to better support our future residents within this housing component, we have developed our own community support.

1. Housing follow-up intervention

• Development of an annual individual action plan;

• Monthly meeting with a housing follow-up worker;

• Social workers available to residents;

• Preventive and safety inspection of housing.

2. Intervention in collective support

• Animation of the living environment (game, preventive workshop and activities);

• Occasional community support.

3. Community involvement

• Outdoor cleanliness brigade;

• Housework ;

• Community and compensatory work.

This new component will open in the winter of 2024. To achieve this, several steps are currently underway. Whose :

• Recruitment social workers;

• Adequate training for this major project;

• Opening of applications for transitional housing;

• Selection committee;

• Integration of selected new residents.