Making Better Lives

Making Better Lives is a Toronto based, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of those experiencing homelessness. We are here to:* Create a digital 24/7 life stabilization support app/platform to assist in the collection and allocation of social and financial services to those who need them.* Reduce barriers that impede the progress of those making the journey from streets to home to community involvement and employment.* Provide more opportunities to gain social/financial/digital inclusion. The Better Lives App/Platform will help to facilitate the transfer of local social resources. As a communication tool it will directly connect members in the community who have the resources to those who need them by:* Encouraging the public and organizations to directly engage in the transfer of all types of donations - broadening their means of giving.* Producing a free 24/7 digital support companion that will directly connect the user to the right resource, at the right time, with the right people and places (used independently or alongside frontline support workers).* Offering a platform that will better enable service providers and their support workers to directly access and distribute much needed resources and connect with their clients. In designing the digital app/platform to complement the way local social assistance is delivered, we encountered the same barriers that our service providers, frontline support workers and clients do in accessing and obtaining these social services. Our focus quickly turned to finding solutions that could reduce these barriers. We approached the community to join us in creating collaborative working groups that could take innovative ideas through to implementation. If you or your organization would like to get involved, please contact Kathy McKay: info@makingbetterlives.ca