Home Horizon brings both little artists and local professional artists together for it's 15th annual Bowls for Beds Fundraiser!
This Spring we welcome you to join Home Horizon and The Barbara Weider House for the annual Bowls for Beds fundraiser, a two-part event: with bowls from our young artists, and one-of-a-kind hand-painted bowls by local professional artists. This year’s event is 15 years in the making and stronger than ever bringing together art and education to raise awareness about youth homelessness in our community. For our 15th year we want to do something special…By purchasing a bowl(s) – not only will you be supporting youth experiencing homelessness in our community but you will also be supporting our local Mobile Soup Kitchen. Let’s broaden the impact of this fundraiser and change lives together.
Bridging the critical gap between emergency shelter & independent living
Our mission is to transform the lives of youth at risk of homelessness by providing them with the opportunity to rebuild their lives and achieve their full potential.
These youth are in the process of transitioning into adulthood, and due to challenging circumstances, may not yet have acquired the health, personal, social, and life skills that make independent living possible. We offer access to counselling and programs to help these youth successfully rebuild their lives and transition to independent living and adulthood. Our support programs help them learn life skills, create positive relationships with peers and adults, and re-engage with school, employment training, and/or employment.
We help youth find services that fit their individual needs.
While we are not an emergency shelter, we do collaborate with service partners within the community to prioritize the safety of youth in our community. Housing crises can happen at any time and through proper referrals and assessments, we can offer the appropriate course of action, connecting youth with emergency sheltering services and an array of other social services. The Your S.A.F.E. (Specialized Access for Everyone) is a specialized service offered by Home Horizon that allows us to reach out to vulnerable youth, both in person and digitally and make sure that youth get connected to the services that they need.
At-Risk of Homelessness
Living on their own-away from parents or caregivers-and unable to acquire a stable, safe, or consistent residence, most young people who experience homelessness do not choose to be, nor wish to be. From sleeping rough or in emergency shelters, to a range of precarious housing and shelter circumstances, the experience of homelessness is often negative, unhealthy, unsafe, traumatizing, and stressful.
Youth have a greater likelihood of being part of the ‘hidden homeless’ population. They may couchsurf, stay temporarily with friends or relatives because they cannot go home and most likely haven’t sought out services to support themselves. For a lot of youth, they have a “home” but their living situation is abusive, unsafe, unsupportive, and/or inherently precarious.
Through transitional housing, the Barbara Weider House, and Your S.A.F.E. Outreach program, we work with youth at risk of homelessnes to rebuild their lives and ultimately reach their full potential.
Homelessness has reached crisis proportions in Canada and is a real issue in our area, even if it isn’t always visible. We work with youth from Collingwood, Creemore, Meaford, Stayner, Thornbury, The Town of Blue Mountains, and Wasaga Beach.
Transforming the lives of youth.
Watch our 2-minute video on the work that we do to support the vulnerable youth in our community.
“No one gave me a chance, no one would listen to me and no one gave a “crap” until I got here. I have a real chance of being a success now. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart”
Home Horizon Youth, Name Withheld
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