{"id":2340,"date":"2021-10-07T15:40:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T15:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/ontario\/world-homeless-day-oakville-lighthouse-shelter\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T15:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:04:36","slug":"world-homeless-day-oakville-lighthouse-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/ontario\/2021\/10\/world-homeless-day-oakville-lighthouse-shelter\/","title":{"rendered":"World Homeless Day &#8211; Oakville Lighthouse Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/ontario\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/WHDBanner.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8082\" src=\"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/ontario\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/WHDBanner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kirth Murphy might not be living at The Salvation Army\u2019s Oakville Lighthouse Shelter now, but the support remains whenever he needs a helping hand.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency shelter offers counselling programs, community resources to help individuals find stable, assisted or affordable housing options, and mental health supports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was homeless, and I am no longer homeless. I am working on getting back into the administration support industry,\u201d Kirth says. \u201cWhen I got here, I felt the stigma. It was something that I had heard about, but I have now experienced it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in the Caribbean, Kirth says his Christian upbringing guided him for a long time as a younger man, but eventually he drifted away from the church.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"World Homeless Day 2021, Lighthouse Shelter (Oakville)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JqMS2adjJg4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I got into this crisis, I met Nellie and she reconnected me and rekindled my faith,\u201d he says. \u201cWhat they have done is found me a place to live. I am invited here for meals whenever I feel I need someone else to cook for me. I am still part of the shelter and I feel like I still have those supports and I am not letting them go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nellie Noack is the Salvation Army Chaplin at Lighthouse Shelter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey come with different reasons why they are here. At intake we identify what other supports they need from the community, so we work to connect them to those programs and it provides more support for them,\u201d Nellie says.<\/p>\n<p>Clients have regular check-ins to ensure they are still accessing community supports as they work toward meeting identified life goals with the objective of living independently and confidently.<\/p>\n<p>The Salvation Army and Lighthouse is \u2018More Than a Shelter.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"378\" src=\"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/ontario\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/WHDPhotoBanner-1024x378.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/ontario\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/WHDPhotoBanner-1024x378.png 1024w, https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/ontario\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/WHDPhotoBanner-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/ontario\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/WHDPhotoBanner-768x284.png 768w, https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/ontario\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/WHDPhotoBanner-1536x568.png 1536w, https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/ontario\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/WHDPhotoBanner-2048x757.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirth Murphy might not be living at The Salvation Army\u2019s Oakville Lighthouse Shelter now, but the support remains whenever he needs a helping hand. The emergency shelter offers counselling programs, community resources to help individuals find stable, assisted or affordable housing options, and mental health supports. \u201cI was homeless, and I am no longer homeless. 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