About · Kenora Funding Navigator

How an answer is made

Your question is matched against 2,613 passages from the 60 documents on the sources page. Short forms like HPP or ONCA are expanded first.
The closest passages, at most three from any one document, are sent to Claude (Anthropic's model) with its citation feature turned on.
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How current it is

Programs open, close and change their rules. Every answer shows when its oldest source was last checked, and the whole library is re-checked on the third of each month. If a document has changed, the site is rebuilt before it quotes it again.

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Who made it

Built by James Dare in Toronto, with Omoyeni Rasaq, RSSW, as reviewer. She works in mental health and housing in the Kenora District and checks answers against real questions from that work. She reviews in a personal capacity, not for her employer. The site will say it is reviewed once her first pass is done. Questions or corrections: dev@jamesdare.com.

Short forms

KDSB: Kenora District Services Board. The service manager for housing and homelessness programs across the Kenora District.
HPP: Homelessness Prevention Program. Ontario's consolidated homelessness funding, flowed to service managers such as the KDSB.
ISHP: Indigenous Supportive Housing Program. Ontario program for supportive housing delivered by Indigenous organisations; OAHS runs its proposal calls.
OPHI: Ontario Priorities Housing Initiative. Federal-provincial housing funding administered by service managers.
COCHI: Canada-Ontario Community Housing Initiative. Federal-provincial funding to protect and repair community housing.
HART: Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment hub. Ontario's 2025 model of treatment and supportive-housing hubs.
OTF: Ontario Trillium Foundation. Provincial grant-maker: Seed, Grow and Capital streams.
NOHFC: Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation. Provincial agency funding capital projects in the North; its guidelines exclude residential projects.
OAHS: Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services. Indigenous housing provider that runs the ISHP proposal calls.
KLWCF: Kenora and Lake of the Woods Regional Community Foundation. Local foundation granting to registered charities in the Kenora area.
SUAP: Substance Use and Addictions Program. Health Canada contribution funding for substance-use projects.
ISC: Indigenous Services Canada. Federal department funding on-reserve housing and Jordan's Principle.
CMHC: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Federal housing agency: Affordable Housing Fund, Seed Funding.
AHF: Affordable Housing Fund. CMHC capital program for new and repaired affordable housing.
ONCA: Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010 (Ontario). The Ontario statute that governs not-for-profit corporations.
CRA: Canada Revenue Agency. Registers charities and sets the rules on paying directors.
CCHL: Canadian College of Health Leaders. Professional body that grants the CHE designation.
CHE: Certified Health Executive. CCHL's leadership credential.
LEADS: LEADS in a Caring Environment. The leadership framework the CHE is built on.
OCSWSSW: Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. Regulator for RSWs and RSSWs in Ontario.
RSW: Registered Social Worker. Protected title regulated by the OCSWSSW.
RSSW: Registered Social Service Worker. Protected title regulated by the OCSWSSW.
ASIST: Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training. LivingWorks' two-day suicide intervention workshop.
T4T: Training for Trainers. LivingWorks' course that certifies ASIST trainers.
NVCI: Nonviolent Crisis Intervention. Crisis Prevention Institute's de-escalation program.
CPI: Crisis Prevention Institute. Publisher of NVCI and its instructor certification.
PR: Permanent resident. Immigration status.