Transitional Housing Project

"Rebuilding Hope"

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The Project - Top Level Overview

How Will We Do This?

• Build secure homes throughout Bruce County, using a decentralized model (Port Elgin, Wiarton, Kincardine and Brockton)
• House up to 16 women and their children
• Provide affordable leases for one/two years
• Have options of one, two and three bedrooms

Project Steps for Each Home

• Acquire the land
• Design the facilities to house up to 16 women in total and their children (4 apartment style buildings at each location)
• Secure the funding
• Build the facilities
• Open first facility in Port Elgin in 2007
• Establish on site programming

How Much Money Needs to be Raised for Each Home, and Where it is Coming From?

The Team

The lead team represents a wide variety of community stakeholders:

• Pauline Witzke – Board Chair & Committee Chair
• Casey Weichert – Executive Director
• Lori Taylor – Transition & Housing Support
• Bev Spence – Fund Development Co-ordinator
• Debbie Walshe – Accounting & Social Housing
• Susan Earle – Manager of Housing Service of Bruce Grey
• Ed Starr, SHS Inc.
• Adene Kuchera, SHS Inc.
• Grant Diemert, G.M. Diemert Architect Inc.

For more information about this project, please contact Casey Weichert