Programs we Support

Proceeds from Hockey Helps the Homeless focus on two areas:

1) Front Line Support Projects where trust is so crucial to building relationships with the homeless. Our Legacy started with the disbursement of Survival Kits on the Streets and has grown to purchasing mobile homes and vans for street outreach workers to use in ministering to the homeless.

Examples of Frontline Projects Include:
Benedict Labre House: Purchased van to transport food and clothing

Shelters: Hundreds of thousands of dollars in support of desperately needed furniture, food, goods and services

Light Patrol’s Curb Light: Purchased a Mobile Home used as a mobile outreach program that travels within Toronto’s inner city searching out and assisting youth who are on the extreme margins of society.

Survival Kits: Since 1996, we have handed out more than 15,000 kits that include sleeping bags, gloves, hats, socks, scarves, sleeping bags, toiletries and food snacks

2) Reintegration and Transitional Projects that provide innovative and structured initiatives for homeless people preparing to reintegrate into mainstream society. This includes funding for building projects such as libraries, computer rooms, personal hygiene facilities, physical fitness rooms, AA and NA meeting rooms as well as funds for purchasing fridges, freezers and furniture for transitional housing units.

Examples of Reintegration and Transition Projects Include:
Welcome Hall Mission: Purchased a 3rd Dentist Chair for a new project offering free dental work to the homeless in St. Henri, Montreal

Avenue 15: Refurbished the 2nd floor of the building that accommodates 8 bedrooms. Support included the costs of new furniture, wall repairs, new paint, new doors as well as renovating bathroom facilities

Training: Supplied 8 laptops, cable locks, routers and covered the costs of computer training programs

Partnered with Markham's Kylemore Communities Hockey with Heart in furnished 6 Apartments in Markham’s “Tony Wong Place” used to house homeless teens and young adults as they transition back into school or to work

YWCA Calgary , replaced an outdated and broken HVAC system and furnished 18new rooms that will be used as transitional apartments for women coming off the streets

Rain City Housing and Support Society Vancouver supplied new windows to the premise used for housing and support

Salvation Army gateway Toronto purchased the contents of 100 "Starter Kits" consisting of sheets, towels, toiletries, a pillow, kitchen supplies, and other essentials for previously homeless persons to get a fresh start at life in a new apartment