Building With Mission
Supporting health care organizations to build housing for seniors.
Our Aims
Building with Mission aims to get projects off the ground more quickly by:
Providing a tactical playbook that supports organizations and leaders who are new to this work with the aim of accelerating project initiation
Contributing to the advancement of at least one, and up to three, active demonstration projects
Launching a sustainable community of practice to bring organizations conducting this work together to share learnings
Read more about the imperative for health organizations to address housing and how the Building with Mission project is designed to help.
Our Audience
The Building with Mission project was created to support mission-driven organizations new to housing and interested in supporting vulnerable older adults in their communities including:
Leaders of healthcare organizations, whether faith based or secular, across Canada:
with under-utilized land/buildings
interested in launching housing projects with a social mission
interested in supporting older adults to age well in their communities
Other non-profit organizations with similar goals and capabilities
Partner organizations that may work alongside these organizations to deliver on a shared mission
Steering Committee & Project Team
Thank you to our project sponsors from CHAC, CHSO, Cahdco, Overlap Associates, Covenant Care & Covenant Living, and SE Health for your support and expertise.
Derrick Bernardo, formerly with Covenant Care & Covenant Living
Nicole Francoeur, Overlap Associates
Arman Hamidian, formerly with SE Health & SE Futures
Cynthia Jacques, Cahdco
Beth Johnson, Catholic Health Sponsors of Ontario
Zayna Khayat, formerly with SE Health & SE Futures
Sheli Murphy, Covenant Care & Covenant Living
John Ruetz, Catholic Health Alliance of Canada
Ryan Voisin, Overlap Associates
Alexis Wise, SE Health & SE Futures
