About 85 per cent of the Syrian refugees who’ve arrived in London since late last year are now in their own homes, the city’s main refugee resettlement agency says.

The rest are still in temporary locations, such as hotels.

Since Dec. 20, London has welcomed 915 government-assisted refugees — including 184 families — who arrived as part of the federal government’s move to fast-track 25,000 Syrian refugees within months.

“It has worked out well. If it was successful, it was because over 20 organizations got involved,” said Valerian Marochko of the Cross Cultural Learner Centre, which has resettled most of the government-assisted refugees.

“I don’t have the words to thank everyone — the funders, the city, child-service organizations and all the people who donated to London United For Refugees,” he said.

“It’s been a big undertaking that involved lots of partners.”

Among the agencies that have helped are the YMCA, the Boys’ and Girls’ Club of London and Merrymount Children’s Centre.

Other partners included health care teams from hospitals, said Susan Hocking, director of client services at the Intercommunity Health Centre.

Since groups of Syrian refugees began arriving, the centre set up makeshift clinics to do “episodic health care” at hotels and the Cross Cultural Learner Centre, she said.

“For folks dealing with coughs, colds fevers, respiratory illness — sort of winter-in-Canada-type of illnesses — we went to them and were treating their episodic illness,” she said.

During the clinics, health care providers caught some existing medical conditions, such as diabetes, and connected about 500 people with family doctors, she said.

It was an unprecedented response for an unprecedented situation, in which London welcomed three times the number of government-assisted refugees it normally does in a year.

About 400 Syrian newcomers are still in need of a family doctor, said Hocking.

During the past three months, as the newcomers were temporarily housed at five locations — four hotels and the CCLC’s own shelter, Jeremiah House — many city organizations have opened doors to children and adults alike.

Staff and volunteers from CCLC have taken groups of children to the Boys’ and Girls’ Club daily, and activities have been organized by Tourism London, Museum London and the YMCA, Marochko said.

By the numbers:

915: Number of government assisted Syrian refugees to arrive in London since Dec. 20, 2015

184: Number of families included in the larger number

780 (149 families): Have been resettled into homes

120: Number of strollers provided for families with children, donated through a stroller drive in the Muslim Community

502: Newcomers waiting for appointments with family physicians

338: Newcomers with medical issues have received health care

200: Newcomers with dental needs have received dental care

119: Newcomers who have received vaccinations from Middlesex London Health Unit

Before the refugees were settled in their own apartments or homes, the Cross Cultural Learner Centre said they lived in: