The Dream Team
Your mental health and supportive housing educators and advocates.
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The Dream Team
The Dream Team is a group of psychiatric consumer/survivors, people with lived experience of addiction and homelessness, and individuals supporting families. We advocate for the development of more supportive housing for people with mental health and addiction issues and educate against stigma and discrimination.
By telling our personal stories, by conducting and presenting research, and by standing up for human rights, we demonstrate the life altering benefits of supportive housing.
“The presenters’ personal experiences and stories were my favourite part because it was a good opportunity to see how those barriers affect and shape someone’s life.”
- University Student
Our Presentations
Our members give presentations to share their personal stories of living with mental health and/or addiction challenges and their experiences with supportive housing.
Our presentations generally cover the following topics:
Mental health and addictions
Stigma and recovery
Contact us if you are interested in seeing a presentation.
*Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we are not currently doing in-person presentations. Contact us to discuss a virtual presentation.
What is Supportive Housing?
Supportive Housing combines rental or housing assistance with individualized, flexible and voluntary support services for people with high needs related to physical or mental health, developmental disabilities or substance use. - homelesshub.ca
It allows people to live independent and healthy lives and contributes to improved self-esteem, increased productivity, readiness for work and employment, and reduced need for social assistance.
Supportive housing is cheaper and more effective than hospital beds, incarceration, and emergency shelters.
In any given year, 1 in 5 people in Canada will personally experience a mental health problem or illness.
