By Curtis Galbraith

Community

GPFC given $1.8 million grant to address Indigenous homelessness in Grande Prairie

Jun 20, 2024 | 12:00 PM

The Grande Prairie Friendship Centre says it has been given a $1.8 million federal grant to address Indigenous homelessness in Grande Prairie.

The money from the Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy will be spread out over four years, from 2024-25 to 2027-28.

The centre says the money will help address homelessness through what it calls “culturally appropriate and community-driven solutions.”

The centre will distribute money to agencies that work on the issue of Indigenous homelessness.

“We are overwhelmed with gratitude and thankfulness to receive the Reaching Home funding to support our efforts in addressing homelessness in the city of Grande Prairie. We are also grateful to the Government of Canada for its commitment to provide the funding to an Indigenous organization such as ours to work at preventing or reducing homelessness for our Indigenous people here in the city. We are honored to have our efforts recognized in this manner and will work diligently to provide the best services while working for our Indigenous people,” says GPFC president Len Auger in a release from the centre.

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That same release says the “Reaching Home program is a community-based initiative aimed at preventing and reducing homelessness across Canada.”