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You want the best for your friend, your neighbour, your relative. She has confided in you that she has been abused by her partner and left the family home with her children. Then you learn she has gone back and you find yourself confused and scared for her, pondering the question, “why would she go back?”

COVID-19 has had an overwhelming impact on people experiencing homelessness and precarious housing, as well as community organizations and service support workers providing assistance.

 Housing First For Youth (HF4Y) vs. Housing First (HF): What's the difference? And does it really matter?

In this blog, the Upstream Kelowna initiative developed by BGC Okanagan (formerly known as Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs) ​​will be unpacked. You will learn what the initiative is, why it was developed, how it fills the gaps in preventing youth homelessness and much more.

 This blog post introduces reflections from the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) on the current use of assessment tools among homelessness service providers in Canada. In the near future, we plan to engage in dialogue with communities to better understand their needs and desires regarding assessment tools and processes.

In this blog, the York Region Youth Homelessness Prevention and Housing Stabilization Strategy developed by a collaborative of service providers and youth with lived experience will be unpacked.

This month our featured training coincides with the release of a new report on women

Lived experience of homelessness is invaluable expertise gained only through direct, first-hand exposure to this uniquely devastating phenomenon.

There are an estimated 629,300 veterans living in Canada as of 2020.

The Housing First for Youth (HF4Y) program model – a youth-focused adaption of the successful Housi