About IHARC
Collaboration built to honour neighbours first
IHARC, the Integrated Homelessness and Addictions Response Centre, is a non-profit already delivering street outreach and wraparound supports with neighbours across Northumberland. The IHARC Portal extends that work by offering a transparent space where partners can organise crisis response, share evidence, and document next steps together.
We work across Northumberland County alongside partners in Cobourg, Port Hope, Alderville First Nation, and rural townships.
Listen and surface needs
Street outreach, shelter teams, and neighbours flag urgent issues alongside the daily indicators. Moderators capture themes without publishing identifying information.
Co-design rapid responses
Ideas move through a six-step submission that documents the problem, shared evidence, proposed changes, and respectful risk mitigation before a plan can launch.
Measure and adapt together
Working Plans publish updates, decisions, and key dates so everyone can see what shifted, what needs support, and how to help in real time.
What we commit to
- Neighbours participate as storytellers and co-designers, not data points.
- Evidence is shared in plain language and updated as soon as partners publish it.
- Decisions acknowledge risks, mitigation steps, and who is accountable for action.
- Respectful moderation keeps stigmatizing or punitive ideas from moving forward.
- Frontline teams, municipal staff, and people with lived experience review plans together.
Ready to collaborate?
Browse current proposals, add respectful evidence, or ask to be a community verifier. You only need an account to post or react—reading and sharing links stays open to everyone.