Bridge Healing Fund - Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

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HELP BREAK THE CYCLE OF HOUSELESSNESS

Every year, over 26,000 individuals experiencing houselessness visit Alberta’s Emergency Rooms—and exactly zero of them are housed following these visits.

Through support of the Bridge Healing “Asamina Kochi” program (which translates from Cree into "to try again"), the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation is working to address this unmet need in care, and break the cycle of houselessness.

The Bridge Healing program works by providing emergency patients experiencing houselessness, with their consent, with transitional housing at the Jasper Place Wellness Centre (JPWC). There, they can stay for up to 60 days.

MORE THAN JUST A HOME

The mission of Bridge Healing is to anticipate and meet the needs of people experiencing houselessness and interacting with hospital care by providing immediate transitional housing and services in order to enable independent integration into society in a meaningful way.

Bridge Healing’s vision is to serve the needs of patients accessing the emergency department, or other hospital services, who are experiencing houselessness in a caring, respectful, and effective manner.

Depending on their needs, they could stay for 30-60 days, where the JPWC would work with them to find affordable permanent housing, as well as health support, social support, short-term work opportunities, and other supports to help them get ready to move onward.

Ultimately, Bridge Healing strives to achieve the goal of having no hospital patient discharged into houselessness. Bridging the healthcare system and social supports facilitates the healing journey of patients experiencing houselessness and reduces costly readmissions to emergency departments.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

The work is underway, Bridge Healing has opened its doors, but the need for a significant amount of additional housing units in the City of Edmonton remains.

In order to reach the program’s goal of no longer discharging any ED patients into houselessness we must drastically increase the number of these units available.

Acting as fiduciary partner, the RAHF has set an initial goal to raise one third, a goal of $10 million, to contribute to the total cost of the project to build and open two additional 12-unit homes to be operated by the JPWC.

Please give generously today and help us provide more a chance at a fresh start for Edmontonians experiencing homelessness.

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