History And Outcomes

Naatamooskakowin Coordinated Access Goals

The Naatamooskakowin system is rooted in the principle of mutual care and coordinated community action to support individuals on their journey to finding permanent housing. Its outcomes are shaped by the leadership and insights of people with lived and living experience of homelessness and grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing.

• People are housed and remain housed. The system supports long-term stability by ensuring that people do not return to homelessness once housed.
• The duration of homelessness is reduced. Timely access to housing and supports decreases the amount of time people experience homelessness.
• Outcomes are determined and measured by Lived Experts. This includes:
  • Rapid, consistent, low-barrier intake and assessment processes that are trauma-informed and culturally safe
  • Services that people use, value, and trust; where they feel respected and their needs are met
  • Meaningful choices about where and how to live
  • Access to ongoing, wraparound supports after being housed
• Comprehensive service inclusion. A broad range of services are integrated within Coordinated Access. Service information is current and accessible, and communication is timely and clear.
• Shared capacity-building and training. Service providers participate in a community of practice, applying person-centered, culturally safe, anti-oppressive, trauma-informed, strengths-based, and harm reduction approaches through an Indigenous lens that reflects the diversity of Indigenous Peoples.
• System-wide collaboration. All partners communicate, collaborate, and share data and resources through a real-time, shared system. Services and benefits are coordinated across systems to better support people in exiting homelessness.