Homeless children, like children in poverty generally, suffer a high rate of many physical and mental health conditions. This brief, based on a recent study in the American Journal of Public Health, finds that although homelessness takes its toll in many ways, it does not itself have a significantly adverse effect on young children’s physical or mental health or cognitive development. Rather poverty and other conditions in vulnerable families are what set low-income children on a trajectory for greater challenges.
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The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is the largest national research institute devoted to homelessness in Canada. The COH is the curator of the Homeless Hub.
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