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To hear the audio introduction to A Homeless Vet’s Journey – Week 6, click the play button below: When we spoke with Monica at Catherine...

To hear the audio introduction to A Homeless Vet’s Journey, click the play button below: We drove downtown and found the location of the...

OIM has been given a booth at the Ottawa Home and Garden Show, March 20 to 23 at the Ernst and Young Centre.  Why? A friend of the...

Following from last week, my friend ‘Jesse’, the ‘small things guy’. So last week at the drop in, I had to call the police and ask them...

Someone gave me a gift of money and instructed to help someone. Nothing came to mind immediately so I tucked it away- and took it out...

I remember very clearly the day when Vern spoke up to support another guy who messed up.  The guy stole something from our office, and we...

Many individuals in the church like to say that they are “Pro-Life”, which is an interesting phrase to use. The term “Pro-Life”, to me,...

Today I lost another piece of my heart.  That’s what I feel when I meet someone who just makes me want to weep. Today I met...

This past Wednesday, Ottawa experienced what I hope was the last winter storm of the year (fingers crossed!). It was windy, snowy and...

Ok…OIM didn’t actually GO to the Oscars…but the film that won ‘Best Documentary Short’ is the story of Inocente Izucar, a street-artist...

I met Ashley last summer. She had just left her parents house and was staying at a downtown shelter. Like many other youth who first come...

We came in this morning to find a note from one of the outreach teams that was out last night.  The team had come across a friend in need...

Recently Moira sent me something that she knew would intrigue me.  It is a picture of a piece of pottery that was broken and then...

Have you heard the story about the little boy who shared his lunch with a homeless man?  The little boy had found the older man in a park...

…for some of our street friends at least: from December 20 or 23 to the end of January.  It’s the longest time of the year to make your...

The aroma of turkey and all the traditional trimmings wafted from the kitchen at drop-in this week.  Nothing says ‘come, sit and enjoy’...

Yesterday, we held our annual memorial service at drop-in to remember those in our street community who passed away in 2012.  Often times...

There’s been no shortage of bad news about homelessness in our city.  Ottawa did very poorly on the last Alliance to End Homelessness...

Suzanne comes to the drop-in every week without fail. Her story is similar to many others: she immigrated to Canada several years ago and...

It was -27 degrees last night! Sweet merciful crud that’s cold! But the Wednesday night Outreach crew, appropriately bundled up, had a...