A Way Home Kamloops has come a long way from its grassroots beginning.

The history begins in 2012 when Kamloops was named as one of two pilots to develop a youth homelessness action plan in a national initiative through the Mobilizing Local Capacity To End Youth Homelessness program. At the same time, a grassroots collective was founded by a youth with lived experience of homelessness. This group was meeting in an vacant building and was passionately exploring how to create housing for youth aging out of care into homelessness.

 

The City of Kamloops approached this collective to become the steering committee behind the plan that became A Way Home.