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Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab
“She Authentically Cares About People”: Supporting Youth and Families in Grande Prairie, Alberta
Julianna Hettema is quiet and unassuming but with a calm and steady presence. Her soft, impassive exterior conceals a depth of understanding and emotional intelligence that makes her great at what...
Meryl BoratoAugust 28, 2020
Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab
MtS LivEx Network: Using The Network as Space for Care, Support, and Sharing for Scholars with Lived Experience through the COVID-19 crisis
Before the COVID-19 crisis hit, the newly established MtS Scholars with Lived Experience (MtS LivEx) Network had just met for the first time, and they were beginning to imagine what a network to...
April XieApril 02, 2020
Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab
Duty to Assist As a Way to Accelerate Canada’s Obligations Under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and General Comment 21 on Children in Street Situations
For the past year we have been working on Duty to Assist, exploring the Welsh model and co-designing a  prototype in Hamilton, ON, to explore how it could be adapted to the Canadian context. But what...
David French
Julia Verena LalandeMarch 18, 2020
Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab
Making the Shift (MtS) Scholars with Lived Experience Network
When you’re struggling with precarious housing, your trajectory might look very different than that of young people who are stably housed. Charlotte and I know first-hand how not having a stable home...
Jayne Malenfant
Charlotte SmithFebruary 24, 2020