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Arts Based Research

Arts Programming for Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Kaitlin Schwan
This fact sheet outlines the benefits of art-making for youth who are homeless, how the arts can be used to addess the causes and effects of youth homelessness, and provides tips for creating an...
A day in the life
Nancy Halifax
Fred Yurichuk
Erika Khandor
A day in the life is a community-based research project that provided a forum for homeless and under-housed people in Toronto to present their lived experiences of homelessness, poverty, social...
Artwork/Streetlives, Street-involved Youth in Thunder Bay: A Community-based, Art-informed inquiry
Amy Campbell McGee
Artwork / Streetlives is a community-based, arts-informed, research project which addresses harm reduction amongst street youth in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Nine street-involved participant researchers (...
Struggles, Strengths and Solutions: Exploring Food Security with Young Aboriginal Moms
Cyndy Baskin
Struggles, Strengths and Solutions: Exploring Food Security with Young Aboriginal Moms is an arts-based research project from Cyndy Baskin of Ryerson University School of Social Work, which...
Coming Together: Homeless Women, Housing and Social Support: a Community Arts-Based Research Project
Izumi Sakamoto
It is a community-based research project using arts (staged photography) to explore how women and transwomen who are homeless and marginally housed build support networks with each other in order to...