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2025 Summer/Fall Newsletter

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Celebrating 30 Years of Hope and Housing

A Place Called Home: 1995–2025

We are thrilled to announce a major milestone—A Place Called Home is celebrating 30 years of providing compassionate care and support to individuals and families experiencing homelessness in the City of Kawartha Lakes and the County of Haliburton.

Since opening our doors in 1995, we’ve remained deeply committed to our mission: offering safe shelter, essential services, and a pathway to stability for those in need. What began as a small grassroots effort has grown into a vital community organization—one that thousands have turned to in times of crisis and transition.

💙 Our Journey, Our Impact

Over the past three decades, A Place Called Home has:

Delivered emergency shelter, Drop-In services, and transitional housing to thousands
Helped individuals reconnect with health, employment, and housing supports
Partnered with local agencies, volunteers, and donors to build a stronger safety net
Advocated for long-term solutions to homelessness and housing insecurity

💫 Be Part of the Celebration

This anniversary is more than a moment to reflect—it’s a chance to honour the resilience of our clients, celebrate the dedication of our staff and volunteers, and thank the community that has stood beside us every step of the way.

Stay tuned for special events, stories from the past 30 years, and opportunities to get involved. Whether you’ve donated, volunteered, or simply shared our mission—you’re part of this legacy.

Here’s to 30 years of making a difference—and to the future we’ll build together. 🏠

Let’s stand together for those who need us most. 💙

30 in 30: Celebrate With Us—Wherever You Are

As part of our 30th Anniversary, A Place Called Home is proud to launch the “30 in 30” Fundraising Campaign—an ambitious initiative to raise $30,000 in support of individuals and families experiencing homelessness in the City of Kawartha Lakes and the County of Haliburton.

You can honour our 30 years of service by making a donation to our 30 in 30 APCH Anniversary.

Your contribution helps us:

Provide tailored resources that help meet the unique needs of individuals accessing our programs
By equipping us to respond swiftly to urgent needs across our shelter, Drop-In services, and transitional housing programs
Advocate for long-term solutions to homelessness

Let’s make this anniversary count—for our past, our present, and the future we’re building together. 🏠

The Vision Forward

Our new 5-year strategic plan!

Read the entire strategic plan here: APCH 2024-2029 Strategic Plan

Learn more about the purpose-built shelter that our community and other supporters helped us build in June 2022

New Build, New Future.

The Design

Working with MVW Construction and Architect Glenn Wilcox, we have developed a plan to a new shelter that provides individual rooms as well as space for A Place Called Home to provide better services to those in need.

The Build.

Starting April of 2021 we will tore down our existing administrative building on Lindsay St. South. The plan is to construct the new building and have it operational by Spring 2022.

Why build new?

In April of 2020, with the COVID-19 on the rise, our agency was faced with the reality that our existing shelter couldn’t meet the necessary requirements to keep our residents safe.

Our current shelter was the result of thousands of hours of volunteer labour and broad support from the community. The conversion of these buildings was a massive undertaking and have provided shelter to thousands of people. Unfortunately, when these were developed, a pandemic just wasn’t part of our planning process. Double rooms, shared bathrooms, living spaces and dining areas all make COVID transmission a strong possibility to it was decided to operate the shelter out of a local motel to ensure safety.

We have completely renovated our existing shelter buildings into new transitional rooms, providing further stabilization to our clients moving our of our shelter.