oneROOF Youth Services (oneROOF) supports young people between the ages of 12 to 25 who are at risk of or currently experiencing homelessness in the Region of Waterloo. The organization works to reduce and prevent youth homelessness by providing emergency shelter, outreach, case management, drop-in programming, and education and employment supports. To complement these supports, and fill a gap in the Region of Waterloo, oneROOF opened their first Host Homes program in 2018.
Context of the Evaluation
oneROOF received a grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation in 2018 to launch the first Host Homes program in the Region of Waterloo. As part of this funding, resources were allocated to evaluate the program. Hub Solutions, a social enterprise embedded within the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, partnered with oneROOF to conduct a process and outcome evaluation of the program.