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The Nest

The Nest, our newest program, operates out of the Arlene Wilson Recovery Centre and provides person-centered supports for people on their journey of addictions recovery.

All participants attend group and individual counseling sessions. The focus of The Nest is to support participants in learning the life skills and coping strategies they need to meet their individual goals, maintain their sobriety, and eventually transition to independent living.

Arlene Wilson Recovery Centre

The Arlene Wilson Recovery Centre is a 20-unit housing facility for participants of The Nest who otherwise would have no place to live following their addictions treatment programs. The facility occupies the former administrative space on the third floor of 300 Princess Street, above Hannah’s Place Emergency Shelter.

Residents of the Arlene Wilson Recovery Centre have their own private room, as well as shared spaces for meals, entertainment, and specialized programming.

This facility was generously funded by Shared Health Manitoba, the Federal Rapid Housing Initiative administered through the City of Winnipeg, Arlene Wilson, and many individual donors.

To apply for our Nest Program, fill in the application form and forward to info@siloam.ca

The Hygiene Program

The Buhler Centre expansion provided us with an opportunity to outfit a space with showers and laundry machines for community use.

The Hygiene Program allows people experiencing homelessness to bathe and wash their clothing items on a regular basis – providing comfort and dignity. Community members are able to make use of the shower facility and laundry machines, with all the amenities needed, at no cost.

These services play a positive role in the health and well-being of community members, and are delivered with respect and compassion.

For questions about the Hygiene Program or how to access this service, please call us at 204.956.4344.

Drop-In & Meals

At Siloam Mission, hope begins with a meal. By first filling basic needs, we can help our guests begin to look at a better future. Once inside our doors, people have access to all of our programs and services.

Our guests begin their journey of hope and transition the moment they walk through our doors. Our Drop-In space is a safe and welcoming environment where people can access food and beverages, clothing and community. It is also where they have access to a telephone and a place to receive their mail, as well as our Community Outreach Program, Women’s Program, Music Program, and Sunday Afternoon movies.

The Drop-In is the starting point for people who need our love, care and support as they deal with the daily hardships associated with poverty and homelessness. From here, they can access help and support through our various departments to begin meeting mental, emotional, physical and spiritual needs.

From coffee to cribbage our Drop-in is also a community gathering space in the truest sense. Staff and volunteers work tirelessly to ensure a warm and judgement free environment; a place where guests can build relationships with other community members, volunteers, staff and donors; a place to practice safety and responsibility; a place to volunteer and give back. Many people who have come to us will tell you that it was here where they turned their lives around.

In addition, our Drop-In is a space in which staff support and facilitate crises with the support of other Siloam departments, surrounding agency partners and our City of Winnipeg emergency services.

Our mandate is to use our God given talents to provide nutritious meals to our community members, and also to create and maintain a safe and welcoming environment where people are given opportunities to build relationships and community.

The kitchen is the heart and soul of Siloam Mission. Up to 600 people use our meal services 3 times a day every day. Our kitchen staff and volunteers strive to serve nutritious and nourishing food. The philosophy of our kitchen sums it all up nicely: love people and cook them good food.

Our Clothing Program gives our guests the opportunity to pick out much needed clothing and hygiene items free of charge, and with dignity and respect. Generous local businesses and individuals from all over Manitoba have donated all of the items available in the Clothing Room.

The Clothing Room doesn’t only provide seasonally appropriate clothing free of charge to those in need; we also provide hygiene items and clean undergarments, which play a vital part in preventing potentially serious health complications.

You will be offered up to 15 minutes to come in and shop for the items that you need. In order to ensure that we are able to provide enough for each person in need of this program, there is a limit of one appointment per week per visitor. There are also limits on the number of certain items you may receive based on availability.

If you have any further questions about the Clothing Room program or how to access this service please call 204.956.4344 – we are here to help!

Hannah’s Place is a homeless shelter dedicated to providing a safe, considerate and responsible temporary refuge for community members experiencing homelessness.

Shelter is a basic human need and by offering it we give people dignity, self-respect and the potential for personal growth.

Our Emergency Shelter is named after Hannah Taylor who started the Ladybug Foundation. The Foundation came into existence after Hannah witnessed a man eating out of a garbage can when she was just 5 years old.

Thanks to her fundraising efforts, 110 beds were added to our shelter and they are usually filled every night of the year. Along with a bed our guests have access to hygiene items, washroom facilities and even hot showers. We also have a hospital discharge room for people with no place to go.

The Buhler Centre expansion has increased our shelter capacity from 110 to 143 beds, and includes a separate and secure shelter space for women, transitional beds for people newly experiencing homelessness, and a flex area to accommodate a fluctuating population.

*Note: Due to Covid-19 and social distancing precautions, capacity in the shelter is limited to 100 beds.

Building Futures

Building Futures provides an individualized strength based program where members of our community are supported and empowered on their journey to secure fulfilling and sustainable work.

Our vocational rehabilitation program Building Futures is designed for individuals using our services who require help finding employment. Building Futures determines current skill levels and establishes realistic goals in order to support each participant on an individual basis. Participants begin with a comprehensive assessment, and are then assisted in acquiring the pre-employment, educational and vocation skills that are specific to their employment goal. Throughout the process participants identify and build on their strengths while addressing challenges and obstacles in order to secure employment.

M.O.S.T. (Mission Off The Streets)

M.O.S.T. is a cornerstone within Building Futures. It is our temporary employment program for Siloam Mission’s community members ready to take the first steps back into the workforce. The program incorporates a structured work experience with beautifying public spaces in Winnipeg’s downtown core. This provides participants with opportunities to build confidence, develop employment skills, gain a sense of purpose, and earn an income, all while fulfilling a practical cleaning need in the downtown area.

Saul Sair Health Centre, a compassionate, non-discriminatory environment where personal care is provided with respect, dignity and love to ensure all health needs are addressed.

Living on the street has a tremendous negative impact on a person’s health. Maintaining health is a primary focus of our Saul Sair Health Centre. A combination of staff and over 130 volunteer health-care professionals from many fields provide primary care, specialized care and urgent needs care for those experiencing poverty and homelessness. Services include but are not limited to:

• Primary Care (physicians and nurses)
• Dentistry (dentists and hygienists)
• Optometry
• Podiatry and Foot Care Nursing
• Chiropractic Care
• Massage Therapy
• Physiotherapy
• Health Education

The Saul Sair Health Centre has expanded, with the addition of The Buhler Centre, and includes new recovery beds, additional exam rooms and an optometry space.

Please note: Services of the Saul Sair Health Centre are reserved for Siloam Mission community members who make use of our other services.

Transition Services exists to empower people to enhance their quality of life through support and accountability around self-determined goals.

Transition Services staff help our community members navigate complex social services systems and advocate on their behalf. Our trained case workers help with problem solving and provide support in overcoming a variety of barriers.

This support looks different for each person, but often includes practical assistance with getting ID, accessing financial benefits, or connecting to resources like legal help, doctors and mental health or addictions treatment.

A primary goal for each participant in the Transition Services Program is to find and maintain housing. Our staff help with finding housing, in home supports for preventing eviction, and assist our clients in having positive relationships with their landlords.

Spiritual Care at Siloam Mission
Healing | Connection | Empowerment

Spiritual Care desires to be an inclusive space for healing, reconciliation and developing vibrant community relationships while honoring culture through spiritual development centered in the heart of our Creator.

We hope to achieve this through:

• Respecting Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination in spiritual matters, including the right to practice, develop, and teach their own spiritual and religious traditions, customs, and ceremonies, consistent with Article 12:1 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
• Offering programming that encourages spiritual growth, by providing necessary quiet spaces for conversation, circles of caring individuals to encourage and access to spiritual resources in the community for people of any faith background.

Programming:

Sacred Ground:
A quiet room available to community for solitary meditation, and prayer or to meet with a Spiritual Care staff.

Christian Worship Circle:
An opportunity for spiritual conversation, community gathering around a meal and experiential prayer and worship practices: A sanctuary where all are honored and given voice.

Cultural Programming:  
Our traditional Elder facilitates ceremony, feasts and cultural teachings (ex. singing circle, language groups, drumming, traditional beading).

Sharing Circles/ Support Groups:
Small gatherings designed to explore themes of recovery, health and spirituality.

Individualized Care:
Other special services we provide are hospital visits, home visits and memorials.

You can help us out by volunteering:

• with one of our groups through discussion, music, prayer, and practical hospitality needs
• connecting one-on-one with community in the Drop In

Please call 204.956.4344 if interested.

Art Program

The Arts and Wellness program in our Longtin Resource Centre was developed in response to the community identifying the need for a safe and supportive space in which to express themselves in creative ways. Research shows that all forms of creative expression are therapeutic for people, and for those experiencing homelessness, creative activities can be significantly healing and life enhancing. Engaging in creative activities contributes to emotional well-being in several ways:

• Helps explore and identify feelings
• Increases self-efficacy and improved feelings of self
• Promotes relaxation and reduces anxiety
• Facilitates social connection
• Works as a strategy to promote change, insight and well-being

When we help increase an individual’s capacity for creative thinking and behavior through drawing, painting, constructing, or other ways of using one’s imagination, this can help reduce emotional distress and conflict, and enhance understanding of oneself and others. This in turn may contribute to good mental health, helping people to become more adaptive, resilient and productive when confronted with challenges in life.

We offer workshops, open art studios and individual counselling with a focus on exploring an individual’s creative side. Programming is delivered through a combination of volunteers, professional artists and art therapists.

Mental Health & Wellness

The Arts Program is a part of the Mental Health and Wellness program at Siloam Mission. This area of programming combines individual counselling with the goal of identifying an individualized wellness plan for those in our community through counselling, creative activities and therapeutic relationships.

Siloam Mission’s Mental Health programming offers drop-in counselling that is delivered through a combination of volunteers and practicum students from areas of psychiatric nursing, counselling and psychology.

The majority of our programming relies on volunteer commitment. We actively recruit professionals to volunteer in our program who can commit weekly or bi-weekly for a minimum of 3-6 months. Programming is offered 3 times per week in the afternoon.

Siloam Mission’s Community Education consistently discovers fresh ways to engage students all over the province. We regularly tour school groups at Siloam (and also speak to assemblies and in classrooms), building relationships with schools and school divisions that are seeking to break down the stereotypes of homelessness.

As a direct result students have also helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for Siloam with creative and inspiring fundraising initiatives.

For more information on presentations and tours for students and youth groups please contact our Community Education Coordinator, Paul Loewen, by phone at 204.956.4344 or by email at paul.loewen@siloam.ca.

Making an impact starts now–the youth of today are the policy makers of tomorrow. 

At the Madison our mission is to meet each person where they are at and to inspire and empower them to reach their full potential.

The Madison building in Winnipeg’s Wolseley neighbourhood was purchased in April 2011 to help serve those who are homeless or are at risk of becoming homeless as a supportive housing facility.

Residents at The Madison often face barriers to employment, have physical or cognitive disabilities or struggle with mental health illnesses.

The Madison is a place of intentional community building, with residential relations coordinators and a core group of volunteers on-site who help people break out of their shell by organizing activities which integrate them into the community and build self-esteem.

210 Evanson Street,
Winnipeg, MB R3G 3K9