| Poverty by Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty
by United Way Toronto
Poverty by Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty presents new data on the growing concentration of poverty in the City of Toronto and the role that high-rise housing is playing in this trend. The report tracks the continued growth in the spatial concentration of poverty in Toronto neighbourhoods, and in high-rise buildings within neighbourhoods. It then examines the quality of life that high-rise buildings are providing to tenants today. Its primary focus is on privately owned building stock in Toronto’s inner suburbs.
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REPORTS
Homeless in the Homeland: A Growing Problem For Indigenous People in Canada's North
by Abele, Frances; Falvo, Nick; Haché, Arlene
Today, homelessness and inadequate housing in northern Canada disproportionately afflicts Indigenous people. This is a striking fact in a region where Indigenous people lived very independently (though of course not autarkicly) until the second half of the twentieth century.
Respect, Recovery, Resilience: Recommendations for Ontario's Mental Health and Addictions Strategy
by Minister of Health and Long-Term Care
This report is the result of 20 months of work and extensive consultations across the province. It represents our best advice on how to provide timely, quality, integrated, cost-effective services for Ontarians who have mental illnesses and/or addictions.
The price of getting high, stoned and drunk in BC: A comparison of minimum prices for alcohol and other psychoactive substances
by Stockwell, Tim
This bulletin compares the price of alcohol in British Columbia with "standard doses" of six widely used illicit drugs.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Behavioral Shifts in Students' Awareness and Reactions to the Homeless
by Tse, L.; Firmin, M.; Johnson, C.; et al.
In this study, we explored the reactions among 23 undergraduate students at a university in the Midwest that employed a required "poverty immersion" weekend as part of course pedagogy to instill personal connections and responses to the indigent.
Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless
Social Networking Technology, Social Network Composition, and Reductions in Substance Use Among Homeless Adolescents
by Rice, Eric; Milburn, Norweeta G.; Monro, Willian
The goal of this study is to understand how homeless youth could be linked to positive peers in prevention programming by understanding where in social & physical space positive peers for homeless youth are located, how these ties are associated with substance use, and the role of social networking technologies (e.g., internet and cell phones) in this process.
Journal of Prevention Science
Aboriginal Grandmothers caring for grandchildren: Located in a Policy Gap
by McKenzie, H..; Bourassa, C.; Kubik, W.; et al.
This article argues that the Saskatchewan child welfare system is providing fragmented, inconsistent, and insufficient support to Aboriginal Grandmothers caring for grandchildren.
Indigenous Policy Journal
| Issue 13 / January 18, 2010 
Education Reform for Homeless Students
Children represent the fastest growing homeless demographic in the United States. Homeless children are more likely to do poorly in school than children who are housed. 
Call for Papers
on population health intervention research
The Centre for Population Health Promotion Research at the University of British Columbia is coordinating the production of a special Supplement for the Canadian Journal of Public Health on population health intervention research.
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