Clubbe House is dedicated to providing a safe place for men to find rest, counselling, guidance, community, education and development.

Based on the urgent and continued need for affordable, supportive, and transitional housing, St. Simon’s Clubbehouse Shelter secured a building at 556 Sherbourne St in February 2021, for the purpose of providing supportive and transitional housing for 32 chronically homeless senior-aged shelter users.

This flowed from the end of the shelter’s lease at 525 Bloor St. E, and response and need for COVID-19 physical distancing for clients during the pandemic. We were saddened to say goodbye to our home of 20 years at 525 Bloor St. E. We acknowledge and will never forget that site was the foundation for our future and the building block for our new site. Our previous site was a dormitory modality. Today we have resources at our new site which are representative of fulfilling our mission statement. With the opening of Clubbehouse we have observed significant improvement in health and improved quality of life and outcomes for our clients.

All clients at St. Simon’s Clubbehouse have access to Mental Health and Addictions case management, a robust Medical Support model from our health partners, food programming, harm reduction supports and community engagement opportunities and strategies. The housing team will continue to work towards permanent housing options for its clients and will work closely with community stakeholders to assure augmented safety and security strategies are central to the work that we are doing in the St. Jamestown neighbourhood.

Despite the obvious challenges associated with a global pandemic, new and emergent responses to COVID-19 have led to some exciting and timely responses to homelessness. There has been both nimbleness and ingenuity across the community sector serving homeless men and women. Some of those efforts and responses are now embedded in the program model at St. Simon’s Clubbehouse Shelter.

We invite and welcome any form of support from our community at large to assist St. Simon’s Clubbehouse Shelter with our goal of ‘providing a supportive housing platform and the tools necessary to achieve healthy independent living for those members of our community who contend with being chronically homeless through no fault of their own’.