For current community agency staff who provide housing help as part, or all of their work:

By providing us with your contact information, you are joining the network, so you will be able to:

  • Register online for monthly sessions;
  • Receive all biweekly e-bulletins and weekly job listings
  • Attend training in person, watch on line; buy or borrow videos;
  • Find colleagues and mentors through network
  • Post questions and issues and participate in online discussions
  • Please ensure you fill out all the information requested and use both upper and lower case letters

If your agency does not appear on the drop down menu, please email program@housingworkers.ca.

Please note that housingworkers.ca automatically suspends memberships which have been inactive for 3 months, so log in regularly. Feel free to contact program@housingworkers.ca if you will be away for an extended period of time. If you find you can not log in, please email us so we can reactivate your membership.

Are you a student?

Housingworkers.ca is open for membership for post-secondary students who have a long term interest in housing as a career. We will remove student members who use the site solely for gaining field placements and sending out resumes.

Before you can be approved as a student member you will need to:

  1. Register with your school email as your primary Email Address.
  2. Provide your placement supervisor's email as your secondary Email Address.
  3. Login and update your placement if it changes.
  4. You are required to re-register each school year.

Add your Information  
 
*First Name:
 
*Last Name:
 
*Username:
(Include your first name and initial of last name without spaces)
 
Your Image:   You can upload an image of yourself please use a aquare image or your image will be resized
 
 
 
*Password:
 
*Position / Title:
 
*Type of Position:
 
*If type of position is student please add the name of RENT member who is supervising my housing placement:
 
 
 
*Agency/ Organization(s):
 
If your Agency is not listed please fill in the following fields
 
Name of missing Agency:
Address of missing Agency:
Department in Agency:
Agency Phone Number:
Missing Agency Website:
Your Manager at missing Agency:
 
*Area Served:
(choose as many as apply)
East (E. of Don Valley Pkwy)
West (W. of Dufferin St.)
North (N. of Hwy 401)
South (S. of 401; W. of DVP; E. of Dufferin)
Across the City
Outside Toronto
 
Outside Toronto:
(Please specify region or city)
 
  *Don't have an email address? There are several places where you can sign up to get a free email account. To get your own hotmail account go to http://www.hotmail.com
 
*Agency Email address(1):
 
Alternate Email address (2):
 
*Agency Phone Number: ()    Extention
 
FAX Number: ()   
 
Cell Phone Number: ()   
 
Professional Website:
 
Personal Website:
 
*In what year did you begin housing help work?
 
 
 
For Referral Purposes: (please provide us with information on your work so that other network members can find you for consultation and referral purposes)
 
 
Do you provide housing help as part or all of your work, in the field of housing/homelessness?
                               
 
Do you provide housing follow-up services to people once they have found accommodation?
                               
 
 
*Where do you work?(choose as many as apply)  
  outreach   drop-in  
  shelter   housing help centre  
  multi-service agency   housing provider  
  supportive housing   advocacy & research facility  
  child protection service (CAS, CCAS, JFCS, NCFS)   public health, community health centre or health services  
  income support systems (OW, ODSP, CPP/OAS, CED)   community legal clinic or legal service  
  training or employment centre   rent bank program  
  newcomer/settlement services   student on placement  
  family support services   other  
 
 
*I work with the following groups (choose as many as apply)  
  General (anyone & everyone!)   youth  
  seniors   immigrants & refugees  
  first nations   sex trade workers  
  transgendered   HIV/AIDS  
  prisons/jails release   addictions/harm reduction  
  families   men  
  women - with children   women - fleeing abuse  
  women - single   disabilities - mental health  
  disabilities - physical   disabilities - developmental  
 
 
*I am fluent and willing to receive referrals in the following languages:
(choose all that apply) 		 
  English Arabic
  Bengali Bulgarian
  Chinese - Cantonese Chinese - Mandarin
  Croatian Czech
  Dutch Farsi/Dari
  French Ga
  German Greek
  Hakka Hindi
  Hungarian Italian
  Japanese Khmer
  Korean Kurdish
  Macedonian Ojibway
  Persian Polish
  Portuguese Pashto
  Punjabi Russian
  Serbian Slovenian
  Somali Spanish
  Urdu Tagalog
  Tamil Tibetan
  Thai Turkish
  Vietnamese Yoruba
  Danish Other
  If Other please specify
 
 
 
A Website I Like (1):
 
A Website I Like (2):
 
A Website I Like (3):
 
A Website I Like (4):
 
 
*How I got connected with RENT:
 

Housing Issues that are of Interest to Me:
(will be visible on your online profile)
 
 
The Best Way To Contact Me Is:
 
 
RENT Events I Have Participated In: Optional: Please indicate the Date, Year and Topic of RENT Events you have attended
*Volunteering/Mentoring

RENT is a peer-learning g network, dependent on members sharing knowledge and skills with one another. Volunteers/Mentors play a critical role in keeping the network activities happing.

As a member of RENT, are you willing to:

*1. To be trained as a job shadowing mentor?     No  Yes
 
*2. To be trained as an online mentor, watching and facilitating online discussions?     No  Yes
 
*3. To present a workshop on a particular topic [if yes, then please suppy topics]     No  Yes
 
 
Workshop Volunteering
 
*4. To assist with setup, info table and registration at workshops and networking sessions?     No  Yes
 
 
 
 
     

 

 
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