Support for People Experiencing Homelessness or Inadequate Housing
Mississauga community services improve people’s lives through support, advocacy, and public education.
Located at 1090 Dundas Street East Suite 204, the gathering place provides a welcoming place for people who are homeless or marginally housed.
The drop-in center meets an urgent community need by creating a community space that offers safety and security and where people meet, socialize, and get help. Combining service delivery and community
development approaches, the drop-in staff, volunteers, and members work together to remove problems that keep people from accessing housing, income, and well-being.
The Gathering Place is a drop-in center for community members experiencing homelessness and inadequate housing who are over the age of 18.
The gathering place aims to lower social isolation and improve well-being. We increase social networks and access to income through advocacy, public education, and skills development. Using a community development approach, staff, volunteers and members work together to remove problems that keep people from accessing housing, income, and healthcare support.
For many members, Spirit Circles and access to an Elder at the Gathering Place guide their path to wellness. In addition, the gathering place case management support facilitates access to primary care; mental health, addiction, and harm reduction supports; housing; and assistance with legal issues. Staff and members work together to create a community space that offers safety, security, and access to basic needs as well as hope and possibility for the future.
Essential information
Anyone 18+ can access services at the Gathering place.
Showers, laundry, harm reduction supports and supplies, referrals and case
management support, mental health and addictions support including access to a
Mental health Community worker, weekly Spirit Circles, and outreach.
1090 Dundas Street East suite 204 Mississauga, located at the corner of Stansfield
and Dundas Street East
The Gathering Place drop-in hours are as follows —
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 11:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 11: am – 3:30 pm
Thursday: 11: am – 330
Friday: 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Sunday: Closed
Free
To make an appointment with an on-site Mental health worker:
To make an appointment with an on-site Mental health worker, please call Shamas Berantou at 905 232 2270 Ext.21 or speak with a staff member at the Gathering Place.
Work hours
Monday: Closed Tuesday: 11:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Wednesday: 11: am – 3:30 pm Thursday: 11: am – 330 Friday: 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Sunday: Closed
Address
1090 Dundas Street East suite 204 Mississauga, located at the corner of Stansfield and Dundas Street East
What is the gathering place Store?
The Gathering Meeting Place is a social enterprise shop that is located at the front
of the drop-in at 1090 Dundas Street East. In the store, drop-in members sell
handcrafted items such as art and jewelry with proceeds going back into the pocket
of the members.
Note: The Meeting Place Store is closed until further notice.
Are you looking for donations?
The Meeting Place appreciates in-kind donations of certain supplies. Here’s a list of
items we would love to receive:
Coffee, tea, hot apple cider mix, or hot chocolate mix in sealed new containers
Unscented toiletries (soap, shampoo, conditioner, toothbrushes, toothpaste, feminine hygiene, razors) in plastic Ziplock bags, please
Portable cell phone chargers for members and street-involved folks who have cell phones that need to be charged when nothing is open or accessible
Sealed boxes or bottles of unscented laundry detergent for members to do their laundry at the drop-in
New adult undergarments and socks in sealed packaging
Mississauga Community Services appreciate the generous assistance from the
Ontario Trillium Foundation, on behalf of the Government of Ontario, for financial
support of capital renovations and development to this facility.