| The Anniversary Project
by Heartstring Productions
Combining stunning photography, powerful music, and stop motion portraits, The Anniversary Project beautifuly explores the lives of 20 children, allowing their voices to be heard as they share their experiences with poverty.
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REPORTS
Changing Patterns for Street Involved Youth
by the Yonge Street Mission & World Vision Canada
Whether they were kicked out of their homes, fleeing abuse or released from foster care, nearly 50% of youth simply had no other options available. In from the Margins: a Call to Action on Poverty, Housing and Homelessness
by Art Eggleton and Hugh Segal / Senate Canada The View from Here: How a Living Wage Can Reduce Poverty in Manitoba
by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Identity Work Among Street-Involved Young Mothers
from the Journal of Youth Studies
Examining the ways in which pregnancy and parenting are discursively constructed as a turning point away from street involvement and drug use. The Painful Impact of the Housing Downturn on Low Income and Minority Families
from Shelter Force
While 1 in 5 white households is low income, the rate for minority households is 1 in 3. Housing the Chronically Homeless: High Hopes, Complex Realities
from the Journal of American Medicine | "The social exclusion which homeless people experience every day leads to, and further reinforces, stress, addictions, and mental health problems," explains Professor Daiski, an Assistant Professor with York University’s Faculty of Health School of Nursing. Watch the interview New & Noteworthy
HIDDEN IN...PLAIN SIGHT: LIVING HOMELESS IN YORK REGION
"Give me a camera, I'll show them [homelessness exists]". Many cameras were given out to those identified as homeless or at-risk to document their voices. The photos speak for themselves
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