REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Advancing Inter-Sectoral Action on Harm Reduction and Anti-Racism in the Supportive Housing Growth Plan 

UPDATED DEADLINE: APRIL 12TH

This Request for Proposals (RFP) is an invitation from the Toronto Alliance to End Homelessness (TAEH) to prospective proponents to submit individual or joint/partnered proposals for project delivery consulting services to coordinate, deliver, and generally oversee a one-year project seeking to address the barriers to housing outcomes disproportionately impacting racialized communities, and focused on access to health services and improved harm reduction service delivery within supportive housing. The project overview is detailed in Section 2, and the deliverables will be provided to all Proponents who send an Intent to Respond.  

The Toronto Supportive Housing Growth Plan (the Growth Plan) is a 10-year, intersectoral strategy to grow the supply of supportive housing in Toronto, improve access to supportive housing, and enhance care for clients through collaboration across sectors. It was collaboratively developed and signed onto by housing and supports organizations from across the health, housing, and disability and inclusion sectors, with ongoing involvement and support from other partners in government and health sectors.  

Central to the Growth Plan is a mission to increase the supply of supportive housing in Toronto and improve access to housing as a key social determinant of health. Targeted interventions are needed to ensure that all individuals in need of affordable housing with supports have equitable access to this housing and to the health services they need to maintain housing and improve health and wellbeing. This project is centered on cultivating the intersectoral partnerships needed to develop and implement such critical interventions. To be effective and positioned for implementation, these interventions must be co-designed with people with lived experience, and with the actors who have critical expertise and roles to play in implementation.  

This project seeks to deepen the intersectoral collaboration established through the Growth Plan through new partnerships, and to formalize and expand partnerships with the health sector and with organizations led by and serving racialized people in the social services sector. It will lay a foundation for ongoing intersectoral action to execute the Growth Plan, and model and enhance the capacity for ongoing intersectoral collaboration and action towards advancing health equity and strengthening housing as a social determinant of health.  

All Proposal submissions, including references, questions must be sent electronically in confidence to: 

Toronto Alliance to End Homelessness 

Attention: Savhanna J Wilson  

Email : savhanna@taeh.ca