CEF Community Services Program

No one is hungry or without shelter
Programs operating from an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) framework targeted to low income individuals/families that:

• Address food shortages for low income individuals/families experiencing economic/physical barriers accessing adequate, nutritious, and culturally responsive food while also addressing special dietary needs when possible
• Foster innovation, partnerships and systems change to create a healthy, sustainable, and just food system for Hamilton.
• Programs that attempt to locate, access, or retain adequate safe secure housing, supportive housing, or transitional housing

Everyone feels safe
Programs operating from an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) framework targeted to children/youth/adults that:

• Support community based programs for those experiencing physical, psychological, sexual, emotional, and financial abuse or neglect
• Focus specifically on intimate partner violence within a continuum of services
• Create safe and inclusive spaces

Every child and family thrives
Community based programs operating from an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) framework targeted to children and guardians facing barriers to access and families experiencing short/long term crisis that:

• Foster child/guardian or child/adult mentor interaction
• Assist families in crisis by offering mechanisms that support families to reintegrate, stay together, or overcome significant trauma
• Offer targeted programming to support families facing specific barriers to access

No youth is left behind
Community Based Programs operating from an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) framework targeted to at risk youth that:

• Assist with housing/homelessness, mental health supports, addictions, or conflict with the law
• Support youth where they are either through outreach or by creating safe Drop In spaces
• Promote social navigation, program innovation, systems change or collaborative proposals

Everyone can age in place
Programs operating from an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) framework targeted to seniors or persons with disabilities that allows them to delay entering a residential/long term care facility by remaining at the home of their choice in the community that:

• Support community-based programs that allow individuals to age in place
• Foster collaboration amongst community-based programs to better serve individuals
• Prioritize access to community-based programs for equity deserving groups

Community capacity grows
Programs operating from an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) framework targeted towards agency/community wide initiatives that:

• Provide targeted outreach, community development, social navigation, social development, human services collaboration
• Promote systems change, program innovation, or collaborative proposals

Everyone has someone to talk to
Programs operating from an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) framework targeted to low-income individuals, couples, and families that:

• Reduce economic/physical barriers to community counselling programs.
• Ensure access to culturally appropriate counselling

Emerging needs

• Any new or existing programs for which an applicant has never received funding from the City Enrichment Fund
• Must align with any one of the above Community Services streams descriptions.

Handbooks & Presentations

Download Community Services Established Programs & Returning Applicants Handbook(PDF, 429.29 KB)

Download Community Services Emerging Needs & New Program Handbook(PDF, 412.45 KB)

This stream supports one-time funding for internal facing projects that strengthen the organizational capacity and resiliency. Examples of eligible projects may include: strategy development, organizational plans, organizational level professional development initiatives, financial records, governance documents, policy improvements and advancing inclusion, diveristy, equity (IDEA) and accessibility. 

Objective 
To increase the effectiveness and resiliency of the human services sector at the organizational level by enabling it to enhance program delivery, implement best practices, advance Inclusion, IDEA initiatives, identify continuous improvement processes and remain fiscally viable. 

Maximum Funding: $15,000

Handbook

Download Community Services – Capacity Building Program Handbook(PDF, 431.58 KB)