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Our Services
Bathurst HumanKind Network provides mobile outreach to individuals at risk of or experiencing homelessness, delivering essential supplies, crisis support, and navigation to housing, health, and income services. Our work is rooted in a Housing First approach and focused on prevention as much as response. We believe that wrap-around supports — including access to healthcare, income stability, and community connection — are essential to helping people not only find housing, but stay housed. By intervening early and addressing the factors that lead to housing instability, we aim to prevent homelessness before it begins and support long-term housing security.
We respond urgently and consistently to those unsheltered in Bathurst and surrounding rural, remote and Indigenous communities — areas that have long lacked targeted homelessness support.
People need support in their own communities. In regions where few — if any — solutions exist, our outreach brings hope, connection, and life-saving resources.
Housing Loss Prevention Aims to:
• Stop evictions before they happen
• Address the root causes of instability
• Maintain safe, stable housing
• Reduce shelter entries and returns to homelessness
• Support long‑term tenancy success
It’s one of the most cost‑effective and humane approaches in the housing and homelessness sector.
Housing Loss Prevention
Wrap‑around support is person‑centered, relationship‑based, and adaptive. Instead of offering one program or one worker, it creates a circle of coordinated supports around the individual or family.
It focuses on:
- Stability
- Skill‑building
- Community connection
- Long‑term housing retention
It’s not time‑limited and adjusts as needs change.
Wrap-around Support
Court assistance is the practical, informational, and emotional support that helps people understand and navigate court processes without providing legal advice or representation.
Court Assistance
Shelter prevention and diversion are early interventions that help people avoid entering emergency shelters by stabilizing their current housing or finding safe, immediate alternatives.
Shelter Prevention & Diversion
We provide support in accessing detox and rehabilitation services for individuals who want help addressing substance use. Our role is to make the process easier, safer, and more accessible by guiding people through the steps required to enter treatment and stay connected to care.
We do not provide medical treatment ourselves. Instead, we help people navigate the system, reduce barriers, and connect to the right level of support.
Detox & Rehabilitation Resources
Housing navigation is the hands‑on support that helps people experiencing homelessness find housing, complete applications, overcome barriers, and move into a home as quickly and successfully as possible.
Housing Navigation
Providing emergency winter survival gear means distributing essential cold‑weather items that help people living outdoors stay safe, warm, and alive during winter conditions. It is a harm‑reduction strategy used when individuals cannot immediately access shelter or housing.
This support does not replace housing or shelter; it reduces the risk of injury, illness, and death while people remain unsheltered.
Emergency Winter Survival Support
Hospital assistance is the practical, emotional, and navigational support that helps individuals access, understand, and move through hospital care safely—without providing medical advice or treatment.
Hospital Assistance
Food insecurity is when people do not have reliable access to enough safe, nutritious food to meet their basic needs. Through community donations, we do our best to help those in need.
Food Insecurity