Group Living Programs
About
Our Group Living Program provides stability, consistency, and predictability to support children and youth from ages 2-22 in the pursuit of relationship building and permanency. Through collaborations with Children’s Services, Collaborative Service Delivery (CSD) agencies and their social service agency partnerships, we work towards the physical well being, relationship development and preservation of the cultural as well as ethnic diversity of the young people we serve.
In addition, we ensure connection for our young people with Recovery Alberta in support of their mental health to access counselling, assessments, and assistance in navigating adult services such as AISH and PDD.
Our Group Living Program protects the individual rights, teaches self-advocacy, and ensures that developmental milestones and transition planning is done from a multi-disciplinary, clinically supported, therapeutic crisis intervention, trauma-informed place of care.
Locations
Our 3 Group Living Teams with 5 locations support young people from 2-22 years of age. This happens through the collaboration of multidisciplinary service teams designed to acknowledge and support their Relational, Cultural, Physical and Legal rights as outlined by the Child Intervention Practice Framework along side the C.A.R.E Model of practice.
sakihta kikinaw at Stovel Block
Edmonton's newest flexible housing for female-identifying people
Located in the historic Stovel Block building, sakihta kikinaw — Cree for “house of love" — offers 27 housing units for female-identifying people* who are experiencing homelessness and poverty in Edmonton.
Currently, there are limited options for safe housing for women who are experiencing homelessness, as women often have to navigate high-risk environments to access a warm place to sleep; this need for housing services is amplified by the complications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In response to this need, Boyle Street, alongside The Gather Co., developed Stovel Block to provide flexible, low-income housing for women as a safe space to stay for as long as they need before transitioning into long-term housing. Boyle Street will provide programming and 24/7 on-site workers to help support residents. Individual suites and a common kitchen space will allow residents to further develop a sense of community, confidence and self-worth as they work to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness.
The Gather Co. is an Edmonton-based progressive real estate development company that builds spaces, cultivates innovation, and supports its entrepreneurs. The Gather Co. is owned and operated by the Pope family, who are longtime supporters of Boyle Street Community Services. Their generosity was crucial in allowing us to create this vital service.
sakihta kikinaw practices a new housing model Boyle Street is calling “flexible housing.” Beyond traditional short-term housing models, which house people for several months, flexible housing is an intervention service that gives community members a safe space to stay for as long as they need — from several months to several years — before transitioning into long-term housing.
Staying longer in flexible housing allows community members who are experiencing chronic homelessness and complex needs to get connected to all the services they need to succeed in long-term housing models.
Make a Referral
Have questions about the referral process?
E-mail us at: sakihtakikinaw@boylestreet.org or call us at (587) 338-3711.
*We use "female-identifying" and "women" in relation to include all people who identify as female, including but not limited to cisgender and transgender women.
Boyle Street Community Services, est. 1971, provides 40+ programs across 13 locations to individuals, families and children who are experiencing poverty and homelessness in Edmonton.