The street, the park, a homeless shelter, a drop-in. These are the places where Street Health nurses care for the most vulnerable in Toronto. Homeless and under-housed people are sick more often, and have lives characterized by poor nutrition, high stress and loneliness. Many people living on the street avoid mainstream health services.

When you see the red backpack of a Street Health nurse in downtown Toronto, they are providing vital health care at street level.  Our nurses are a part of larger team offering a range of supports, from mental health care to access to health cards.

With your support, we can make it work. We envision a day when our services are not needed, but until then our fierce commitment continues.

Health Care at Street Level

Street Health is a non-profit community based agency that improves the health of homeless and under-housed people in Toronto. We offer both physical and mental health programs. Our work is focused in the neighbourhood around Dundas and Sherbourne Streets, an area with the largest concentration of homeless shelters and drop-in centres in Canada. 

We provide our services on the street, in parks, and in homeless shelters and drop-ins. The people we work with have lives characterized by extreme poverty, chronic unemployment, insecurity in housing, poor nutrition, high stress and loneliness. They also have more frequent and serious illnesses, and die younger on average than the general population.