Inner City Health Associates (ICHA) is Canada's largest community healthcare organization for unhoused people and is based in Toronto.
[4][1] In 2014, ICHA provided healthcare services at over 40 shelters, drop in centers, street-outreach teams, and housing agencies.
[5][1] Inner City Health Associates was created after a advocacy campaign by doctors and administrators at St Michael's Hospital to the Ontario Ministry of Health to fund the delivery of healthcare in ways that addressed the specific challenges of delivering healthcare to people experiencing homelessness.
[1] ICHA also runs specific programs that provide multi disciplinary street outreach services, and help shelter staff with data management [1][7] During the COVID-19 pandemic, it operated an isolation facility for people who were homeless,[8][9] although disagreements between stakeholders initially delayed opening.
[11] The centre received a $490,000 grant from the Public Health Agency of Canada's Immunization Partnership Fund to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake among the homeless population in Toronto shelters.