Sunshine House

Sunshine house has expanded its services and programs over the last few years to better address the complex needs of the community. Sunshine House has expanded harm reduction services, begun offering transitional housing, added system navigators and plans to expand more into offering a range of housing types and supports in the next few years. This growth has brought additional complications and challenges. One of these is a clear need for a better coordinated outreach and communication system to serve the community and help frontline support.
This project acts to increase productivity and efficacy by offering needed support to the organization through more structured communications and outreach initiatives. The specific focus is on utilizing social media as an outreach tool, holding community tabling outreach sessions, and helping people prepare and understand how to represent themselves effectively with landlords, support systems and with government bodies such as Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and the Rental Tenancies Branch (RTB). To help address these challenges needs skills and expertise in community outreach, effective education and digital literacy.

Faculty Supervisor:

Shauna MacKinnon

Student:

Partner:

Sunshine House Inc.

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Winnipeg

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