The
TEMPEH
Project:
Team
Care
for
Routine
Emergencies
Among
People
Experiencing
Houselessness 

Written By Shay Alford

A Team Optimization Project to engage peer and community health workers in ICHA’s team to enhance comprehensive primary care by responding to “routine emergencies” facing people experiencing houselessness, including encampment and shelter evictions, extreme weather events, and novel communicable disease threats.

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Lead Organization: The Inner-City Health Associates TEMPEH Committee
Focus: Serving Canada’s most diverse and marginalized populations and people experiencing homelessness (PEH) and responding to severe emergency threats to health in this population.  

Project Team:

  • The Inner City Health Associates TEMPEH Committee

  • Sara Maria Daou, MPH - Health Promotion Coordinator at Inner City Health Associates

  • Bradshaw Byakuleka, Community Health Worker at Inner City Health Associates

Shay Alford
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