The Emergency Housing Support Program, offered by the band in partnership with Reaching Home Indigenous NL and Reaching Home Rural and Remote NL, provides funding for eligible projects that will help eliminate or reduce homelessness.

At this time, there are no funds remaining for emergency repairs and as such, applications for home repair projects will no longer be accepted.

Applications for the following supports that fall within the project’s scope of eliminating or reducing homelessness are still being accepted:

• Housing Set-Up: Provides financial assistance at a maximum of $2000 per application. This could include housing or rental start-up such as first and/or last month’s rent as required, damage deposit, and/or utility assistance.
• Emergency Short-Term Accommodations: can provide for hotel placement at a maximum of 10 nights.

To submit an application for housing set-up or emergency short-term accommodations, please click here.

For more information, please contact a member of our housing team:

Housing Contacts

HOUSING DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
Travis Hulan
709-634-3176
thulan@qalipu.ca

HOUSING PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT YOUTH INTERN
Jason Park
709-634-0411
jpark@qalipu.ca

Every participant will receive a $20 gift card

We’ve partnered with the Rural Development Network to offer engagement sessions later this month and we would love to see our Band members there! We’ll be set up for several hours at each location but there is no obligation for you to stay the whole time.  Please feel free to drop by for a little while, or a long while.

The purpose of these sessions is to gather information about the housing needs and concerns of our membership.  The information we gather will be used to compile statistics and data that will guide us in program creation and assist in accessing much-needed funds.

Drop by:

August 19th, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm in Gander at the Quality Hotel and Suites
August 20th, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm in Corner Brook at the Glynmill Inn
August 21st, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm in Corner Brook at the Glynmill Inn
August 22nd, 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm in Stephenville at the Days Inn

Please be advised, members of Qalipu’s Housing Division will be in Stephenville on June 28 and are currently setting up appointments for people who would like to meet with them to discuss housing resources, or to receive assistance with completing the application for Qalipu’s Emergency Housing Support Fund.

To make an appointment for June 28 in Stephenville, please contact Jason at 709-634-0411

In the days following one of the worst storms to hit our shores, we are reflecting on the struggles now faced by individuals and families who have lost their homes and belongings.  It is a difficult moment to be sure, and our thoughts and prayers are with those facing these challenges.

At this time, we would like to take the opportunity to remind Band members, specifically those most severely impacted along the south coast, about our Emergency Housing Repair Program and invite them to get in touch to discuss options under this program, and other supports available through Qalipu’s Housing Division.

For more on housing support programs, click here

To reach out and discuss what we can do to help, please contact Jason at 709-634-0411.

 

Emergency Support Application
FAQ

Introduction:

“I’tesnen: We Are Staying” Qalipu Emergency Housing Response Program aims to help prevent and reduce homelessness among our members. Existing support(s) include:

• Emergency Housing Repair – Provide financial assistance (maximum $5,000 per household) to existing homeowner(s) in need of emergency repair(s) that would cause the homeowner to leave their home immediately.
• Housing Set Up – Provide housing/rental startup assistance such as first month’s rent and/or last month, damage deposit, and/or utilities assistance up to $2,000 per application.
• Emergency Short Term Accommodations – Provide hotel placement for a maximum of ten (10) nights.

“Indigenous homelessness refers to Indigenous Peoples who are in the state of having no home due to colonization, trauma and/or whose social, cultural, economic, and political conditions place them in poverty. Having no home includes: those who alternate between shelter and unsheltered, living on the street, couch surfing, using emergency shelters, living in unaffordable, inadequate, substandard and unsafe accommodations or living without the security of tenure; anyone regardless of age, released from facilities (such as hospitals, mental health and addiction treatment centers, prisons, transition houses), fleeing unsafe homes as a result of abuse in all its definitions, and any youth transitioning from all forms of care”

– Reaching Home Indigenous NL

 

Program Eligibility:

• Applicant/Co-Applicant must be a registered member of Qalipu First Nation
• Applicant must identify as an individual who is currently homeless or at risk of becoming homeless
• Applicant/Co-Applicant are required to be a resident of Newfoundland & Labrador
• Applicant must NOT be currently supported by the provincial, territorial, or municipal welfare and/or rent supplement program(s)
• Based on submission of required documents. Funding is limited.

Please Note: *If housing ownership is in the name of a non-member spouse or partner (co-applicant), you may still submit your application with housing ownership supporting document; however, it will be necessary to provide further documentation to support that you are a resident of the same household.

**Emergency Short Term Accommodations may be provided to non Qalipu indigenous community members who are homeless and/or at risk of becoming homeless.

 

Application Process:

• Qalipu application collection will be based on submission date and will be processed until funds have been exhausted. All applications will be reviewed and assessed as they are submitted, based on level of emergency, amount of funding available, and in reference to the definition of Indigenous Homelessness as outlined by Reaching Homes Indigenous NL
• Limit of one application per household. Duplicate applications will not be reviewed. In the event duplicate applications are received, QFN will consider the first application as the valid submission
• All applications require name, accurate mailing address/street address (if different from mailing address), Band registration #, phone number and/or email address, and supporting documentation including proof of homeownership/rental agreement, and proof of combined annual income
• If you have any questions or require support regarding your application, please email jpark@qalipu.ca or thulan@qalipu.ca
• FOR ASSISTANCE FILLING OUT YOUR APPLICATION, PLEASE CONTACT: JASON (709) 634-0411 OR TRAVIS (709) 634-3176

Emergency Support Application
FAQ

Update: June 1, 2022- The deadline to submit applications under the Home Accessibility Support Program has been reached. Individuals whose applications were successful will be notified by our Housing Development Team.

Qalipu First Nation (QFN) Housing Division is pleased to launch the Home Accessibility Support Program Monday, April 4, 2022. The Home Accessibility Support Program (HASP) serves to provide financial support opportunities for QFN band members who reside in Newfoundland and Labrador and living with disabilities. While funding for HASP is limited at this time, the collection of data and need for similar programs will be thoroughly assessed during this first launch.

HASP is intended to provide such financial supports toward housing retrofits and modifications to increase accessibility, functionality, sustainability, and longevity, that will ensure a safe and sound standard of living specific to the members needs . Applicants must submit all required documentation by May 31, 2022 and successful applicants that may be eligible to receive up to a maximum of $2,500.00 in assistance will be notified before June 30, 2022.

For full details, applications, and assistance for QFN Home Accessibility Support Program Click Here: Home Accessibility Support Program