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Cornerstone Community Association

Cornerstone Community Association is a non-profit, United Way agency that has been serving the needs of people without housing in Durham Region since 1967. Our mission is to provide all necessary and possible resources to enable the re-integration of marginalized individuals into our communities. Our goal is to provide opportunities for reintegration so that people without housing can make the transition from homelessness to home; from the margins of our communities to full membership (citizenship) with all of its privileges and responsibilities.

Accordingly, Cornerstone provides a range of housing, community development and support services to people without housing and/or those just released from an institutional setting. Those we serve are over the age of 16, the majority of whom are single men. This is a diverse and changing group. In recent years the increased numbers of people without housing have meant that the traditional stereotype of the homeless person has become less accurate than ever.

The Cornerstone Model provides a continuum of housing with a range of service and support. Within the continuum, people are encouraged, when they feel they are ready, to move from locations and programs that offer higher levels of support to locations that afford less support and greater independence. Our continuum consists of six programs: Emergency Shelter, Community Residential Facility, Transitional Program, and three different apartment buildings.