Who We Are

Blue Door’s values are the principles that guide our internal and external operations. The values apply to our work, to our employees, to our volunteers, and to all our partners.

• Respect: We treat people with dignity, respect the right to informed choices, and are nonjudgmental.
• Anti-Racism, Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: We embrace diversity in the people we support, staff, and Board. We provide inclusivity in our work and strive to address systemic inequalities through our employment practices and work. We eliminate the stigma associated with homelessness.
• Person-Centered: We place people at the heart of our work and partner with individuals to offer services designed to serve them.
• Leadership and Collaboration: We are a thought leader in the Region and across Canada in innovative strategies to end homelessness, and in collaborating with community partners and organizations who share and support our vision, mission, and values.
• Accountability: We are transparent and accountable to the people we support, to staff, volunteers, and all internal and external partners we work with.
• Innovation: We provide evidence-based, solution-focused programming that advances best practices, taking a systems-level approach to ending homelessness in Canada. We encourage innovation within our organization and programming and are dynamic in our work.
• Housing as a Right: We believe that all people have the right to safe, affordable, dignified, and inclusive housing.

Blue Door’s 2023-2025 Strategic Plan includes three Program Priorities and four Organizational Priorities.

Strategic Program Priorities

Focused on addressing the root causes of homelessness, Blue Door’s Program Priorities capture the three types of innovative and lifesaving services offered.

1. Housing: Blue Door will increase housing access and retention by creating and retaining new and existing affordable, transitional, and emergency housing.
2. Health: Blue Door will strengthen people’s mental and physical health through physical, emotional, psychological, and social well-being services.
3. Employment: Blue Door’s social enterprises will provide training and help people gain employment. Blue Door will also support the expansion or replication of its social enterprise service to other geographic areas.

Strategic Organizational Priorities

Woven into each of the Program Priorities are Blue Door’s Organizational Priorities which capture how Blue Door plans to thoughtfully and purposefully address homelessness.

1. Evaluate: Blue Door will continuously evaluate its programming to strengthen and expand the programs and the sector’s capacity.
2. Innovate: Blue Door will foster a culture of innovation, explore innovative partnerships, as well as research, pilot, and promote new solutions to housing and homelessness.
3. Lead: Blue Door will be a leader and create a strong, inclusive, anti-racist, and justice-based organization for employees and people served.
4. Advocate: On a national scale, Blue Door will advocate and raise awareness of best practices and innovative solutions through research, political submissions, and inter-sectoral engagement.

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