We are grateful to the following indi-

viduals, faith groups, businesses and

groups for their kindness towards our

clients who stay temporarily at In From

the Cold Emergency Shelter and/or

Lily’s Place Emergency Shelter for

families.

Below is a pre-Christmas list of donors

(both in-kind & financial):

Dr. & Mrs. George & Barbara Aitken,

Bayridge Alliance Church; Teresa

Bell; Bellevue House; Bernard Burk-

om, Catholic Women’s League/CFB

Kingston, Chalmers United Church

(Outreach Committee), Cobs Bakery;

Collins Barrow, Cooke’s-Portsmouth

United Church, Denise Cumming, Ad-

ele & Gordon Cummings, Diamond

Hotels; The Dobby Project; Edith Ran-

kin Memorial Church; Empire Life;

Paul Fritz, Bonnie & Douglas Hawley,

The Kasaboski’s & Residents of Bar-

riefield; Knights of Columbus; Little

Caesar’s;

Loving Hands Helping Kingston Ontario

Less Fortunate; Loving Spoonful; Col-

leen Mahoney, Martha’s Table; Gerald-

ine & Graham Moss, Sipho Ncube;

Neighbour- hood Sharing Cen-

tre; OPSEU Local 444, OPSEU Local

442, Linda Perry, Pete the Barber; Prin-

cess St. United Church; Princess of

Wales Own Regiment; Providence Asso-

ciates; Queen’s Finance; Robert J. Reid

& Sons Funeral Home; Pastor Todd &

Rustle Church;

Pet Smart & United Way of KFLA; Sir

John A. Mcdonald Public School; Elinor

Ratcliffe — Gill Ratcliffe Foundation,

David Russo, Sisters & Associates of the

Congregation of Notre Dame; Sisters of

Providence of St. Vincent de Paul, Socks

Kingston; Soul Food/Queen’s University;

St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church

(Mission Committee), St. James Anglican

Church (Mission Committee).

St. Paul’s the Apostle Church (CWL); St.

Thomas More Catholic Church; Star-

bucks; Caitlin Willis.

Helping hands makes holiday happiness! I N S I D E

T H I S I S S U E :

Bounty from

BMO

Pg

2

Luv-a-K9’s

Can-ine Chal-

lenge

Pg

2

Kingston Elite

All-Star

Cheerleading

Pg

2

Blanketing the

County in

Warmth

Pg

3

The Shoebox

Project for

Shelters

Pg 3

Grateful for

Grants

Pg 3

A voice for the

future

Pg

4

Touching Base-year end 2017 Y E A R - E N D 2 0 1 7V O L U M E 3 , I S S U E 3

More inside...

turned away. Thanks to the combined efforts of

Emergency Shelter Workers, Housing First Case

Managers and Prevention Diversion Case Manag-

ers, clients have become housed or found relatives

or friends to stay with. Staff assist those who are

homeless to connect with addictions and/or mental

health services to maintain their health and well-

being.

During extreme cold conditions, the Public Health

Unit has a list of WARM UP stations. See page 4.

Baby, it’s cold outside!

Despite record cold tempera-

tures, In From the Cold Emer-

gency Shelter has not experi-

enced a rise in shelter use. The

average number of clients has

remained at approximately 20

people per night and no one was

P A G E 2

Bow,

wow,

WOW!

Luv-a-

K9 answers the

call for can

openers!

Luv-a-K9 loves a can-ine challenge!

Blessings are in the bag!

Bank of Montreal’s Bounty

Sometimes it only

takes one person to

marshal a group to take

action for others!

Home Base thanks

Sarah Munroe for en-

listing other Bank of

Montreal (BMO)

branches to collect

needed items for our

shelter clients. We ex-

tend our appreciation

to the following BMO

branch managers &

staff for their dona-

tions: Brenda Red-

mond, body wash

(Smiths Falls); Aiman-

da Dirksen, facial tis-

sues baby wipes

(Westport); Angela

Dixon-Dubeau, dental

hygiene items (Elgin);

Sarah Munroe, femi-

nine products

(Verona); Heather

Praskey, diapers

(Amherstview); Ally-

son Franklin, hair care

products (Kgn-Front

Rd); Amanda Allan,

toilet paper (Kgn-Bath

Rd); Linda Carey, deo-

dorant (Kgn– Main).

On December 10, staff member, Amanda, spoke

to the Kingston Elite All-Star Cheerleading

team and received a number of Good Life duffle

bags with mitts, hats, socks, toothbrush/paste, deo-

dorant, combs, laundry soap, bandages, hand-

warmers, granola bars, tea, instant oatmeal and

gum.

Luv-a-K9 canines —

none other than Jitter-

bug (French bulldog)

and Wiley E. Coyote

(German shepherd) —

started a competition

for who could collect

the MOST can open-

ers. By mid-

November, the dynam-

ic duo collected over

100 can openers! They

will be distributed to

any client or tenant who

needs one.

Thank you to the dogs,

their owners and everyone

who donated can openers

to the cause!

In order to provide shel-

ter clients with can open-

ers when moving into

their new homes, two of

T O U C H I N G B A S E - Y E A R E N D 2 0 1 7

Amanda, HBH staff, members of Kingston Elite All-Star Cheerleading

Susan Hughes from BMO’s

Verona branch who brought

the bounty!

P A G E 2

Blanketing the Country in Warmth

P A G E 3 V O L U M E 3 , I S S U E 3 1 Y E A R - E N D 2 0 1 7

Urban Barn supports our

In From the Cold Emer-

gency Shelter through

their Blanket the Country

in Warmth country-wide

campaign. Each year, the

staff collects donations

from customers to pur-

chase blankets. In No-

vember, Urban Barn dis-

tributed the blankets to

shelters across the county.

For the fourth year, approxi-

mately 300 blankets were

delivered late November in

preparation for the winter.

Staff at In From the Cold

Emergency Shelter will dis-

tribute them to clients.

Dawn/ HBH staff, Dawn Dalton/Urban Barn,

Cassandra Blackwell,/Urban Barn

Boxes full of love & caring!

Grateful for Grants!

For the second year in a row, The

Shoebox Project for Shelters has

been an overwhelming success!

There were approximately 145 gift

boxes donated to women staying at

In From the Cold and Lily’s Place

Emergency Shelters as well as

female tenants in our Kingston Youth Services and

Supportive Housing programs.

We are grateful to Cindy Price

and Jack Seymour of The Shoe-

box Project for Shelters for

making a difference in the lives

of women who are experiencing

challenges this Christmas.

In 2017, Home Base Housing received the following grants for these

projects:

Home Depot Canada Foundation — upgrading the foyer of

RISE@149 building; part of Kingston Youth Services program.

Home Depot Canada Foundation/Orange Door Project — covering

the cost of transporation and meal plans for the Youth Advisory Com-

mittee.

Ontario Trillium Foundation — replacing existing roof with a perma-

nent roof and improved insulation on our main building at 540 Montreal

St.

Community Investment Fund — providing much needed funds to sus-

tain the operations of the youth hub, One Roof, until the end of 2018

and purchase lockers for youth to secure their belongings before they

obtain housing. Co-funded between United Way (KFLA) and the City

of Kingston.

Ontario REALTORS Care Foundation— covering the cost of respite

care through Better Beginnings & provides school snacks for children.

540 Montreal St.

Kingston, ON K7K 3J2

Phone: 613-542-6672

Fax: 613-544-2629

info@kingstonhomebase.ca

Everyone deserves

a place called home...

years, by the time she reached her

teenage years, she was well acquaint-

ed with emotional, psychological,

physical and sexual abuse. One of the

things that kept me going was my pets

and their unconditional love. I was

able to relate to them as they were

also vulnerable, instinctual, caring

and learning how the world works.

Because of them, I try to spread the

same kindness towards all living

things. Also school played a large

role in my life; providing me with

consistency, positive reinforcement

and a chance to grow. Despite set-

backs, I was able to graduate with my

A voice for the future . . . Site of

HBH’s 2017

AGM at

City Hall’s

Amphitheatre

my class.

Home Base Housing help youth by

providing resources, support systems,

community connections, helpful educa-

tion, awareness and affordable hous-

ing. It is an exponential investment be-

cause youth who have experienced

homelessness may not reach their full

potential without the help of the staff at

Kingston Youth Services.

Kingston Youth Services program help

youth 16-24 years directly through the

program or through One Roof, the

Kingston Youth Hub.

At our Annual General

Meeting (AGM) in June,

one of the residents of

our Kingston Youth Ser-

vices, Turtle spoke

about the influences on

her life.

While she felt that she

lived in an loving envi-

ronment in her formative

Warm-up Stations The Public Health Unit has

provided a list of “warm

up” stations when the tem-

perature drops. The loca-

tions are heated public spac-

es for those who are uncom-

fortably cold and are availa-

ble during normal business

hours.

City Hall - 216 Ontario St.

Central Library (Temporary)

209 Wellington St.

Isabel Turner Library

935 Gardiners Rd.

Calvin Park Library

88 Wright Cres.

KFL&A Health Unit

221 Portsmouth Ave.

Martha’s Table

629 Princess St.

Salvation Army

562 Princess St. (Harbourlight)

183 Weller Ave.

In From the Cold Emergency Shelter

540 Montreal St.

Robert J. Reid & Sons Funeral Home

309 Johnson St.

Queen’s Athletic & Recreation Centre

284 Earl St.

St. Lawrence College

100 Portsmouth Ave.

Kingston Community Health Centre

263 Weller Ave

Community & Family Services

362 Montreal St.