Mission Services is not only committed to helping families and individuals directly, but also to advocating for system change in Hamilton and Ontario.
We participate in many awareness campaigns which seek to end stigma, educate the public, and lobby for policy changes. We participate in campaigns including Wrapped In Courage and Recovery Awareness Month.
Many of our staff members sit on boards and committees with representatives from different levels of government, our community partners, and other public services. We are dedicated to changing the systems which directly affect the lives of our community members.
Mission Services is currently represented at the following tables.
- Ancaster Food Drive Committee
- Barton Street Provider Network
- CCSPT (Complex Care Systems Planning Table)
- City of Hamilton - Coordinated Access Steering Committee
- City of Hamilton - Emergency Shelter Coordination Table
- City of Hamilton - Homeless-serving Sector Check-in Table
- City of Hamilton - Housing First Check-in Table
- City of Hamilton - MESC (Men's Emergency Services Committee)
- City of Hamilton - Prevention and Diversion Check-in Table
- Consumption and Treatment Service Partners Committee
- Dec. 6th Montréal Massacre Memorial Committee
- DVCAC (Domestic Violence Court Advisory Committee)
- Emergency Food Strategic Planning Committee
- Expanding Housing and Support Services for Women and Transgender Community Sub-Committee
- Feminist Law and Policy Reform Coalition-Luke's Place
- GAIN (Geriatric Assessment and Intervention Network) Implementation Team
- GHHN (Greater Hamilton Health Network) Mental Health and Addictions Secretariat Meeting
- GHNN Harm Reduction and Safe Supply Working Group
- Gibson and Landsdale Area Community Planning Team
- Hamilton Administrators of Volunteers
- Hamilton Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition
- Hamilton Drug Strategy
- Hamilton Opioid Action Table
- Hamilton Police Services / Violence Against Women Shelter Protocol Committee
- Hamilton Police Services High Risk Domestic Violence Community Advisory Committee
- HIFIS (Homeless Individuals and Families Information System) Superusers Committee
- Hospital Shelter Coordination Table
- Housing & Homelessness Action Planning Committee
- Housing and Homelessness Action Plan Committee
- HSWG (Hospital Shelter Working Group)
- HSWG (Hospital Shelter Working Group) E-QIP (Excellence through Quality Improvement Project) (sub committee of HSWG)
- Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committee
- Inter-Agency Planning Committee for the Annual Day of Remembrance for Deceased Homeless People
- International Women’s Day Planning Committee
- Legal Advocate Committee (Hamilton Legal Advocates)
- MCCSS (Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services) Hamilton Shelter Directors Working Group
- Men’s Emergency Services Committee
- Men’s Sector Prioritization Case-conference
- Mohawk College Concurrent Disorders Program Advisory Board
- Ontario Association of Interval & Transition houses (OAITH)
- Recovery Awareness Day Committee
- Safe at Home Steering Committee
- Shelter Standards Working Group
- Sisters in Spirit
- The Community Christian Fellowship Church of Canada
- THSW (Transitional Housing Support Worker) Committee (Hamilton THSW’s)
- Triage
- Violence Against Women (VAW) and Catholic Children’s Aid Societies (CCAS) and Children’s Aid Societies (CAS) Collaboration Committee
- WAWG (Woman Abuse Working Group)
- WAWG Court Committee
- WHPC (Women’s Housing & Planning Collaborative)
- WNHHN (Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network) Human Rights Task Force
- Womankind Advisory Committee
- Women’s Sector Prioritization Case-conference
- Women’s Services Advisory Committee to Chief of Police