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Organization: University of New Brunswick
Publication Date: 2018
The following is a discussion paper based on the basic findings of a simple survey study undertaken between 2017-18 at Red Deer College. The study was done to get a preliminary idea of what post-secondary student homelessness looks like, and as such the findings presented here are suggestive, not conclusive. Currently, the study is being undertaken at three other sites and the methodology and findings are being refined. However, some very compell...
Publication Date: 2019
Evidence of the acceptability and potential efficacy of mindfulness strategies with at-risk youth is mounting. Yet only a few studies have assessed these strategies among youth experiencing homelessness (YEH).
We conducted a mixed methods feasibility study of an adapted mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) with sheltered YEH. The MBI consisted of five 1.5-h sessions delivered at a youth homeless shelter over 2.5 weeks. A one-group pre/post-test d...
Organization: Housing First Europe Hub
Publication Date: 2019
This report defines Housing First services as: support for homeless people that closely reflects the core principles and operational practice of the model originally developed by Dr Sam Tsem-beris and Pathways to Housing in the USA. Housing First is an intensive support model centred on enabling homeless people with high and complex needs to live in their own independent homes, exercising a very high degree of control over the nature of the suppo...
Organization: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University
Publication Date: 2018
This research report is a summary of the Coming Up Together (CUT) conference.
Background
Youth homelessness in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with 35,000 to 40,000 youth experiencing homelessness across the country in any given year. The siloing of different sectors and services has led to a lack of coordinated responses to this complex issue.
In order to stimulate inter-sectoral discussion and planning strategies to prevent and end youth homeless...
Publication Date: 2019
Housing is a major pathway through which health disparities emerge and are sustained over time. However, no existing unified conceptual model has comprehensively elucidated the relationship between housing and health equity with attention to the full range of harmful exposures, their cumulative burden and their historical production. We synthesized literature from a diverse array of disciplines to explore the varied aspects of the relationship be...
Publication Date: 2019
The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) is a national Indigenous organization representing the political voice of Indigenous women and girls in Canada. Incorporated in 1974, NWAC works to advance the social, political, and cultural wellbeing and equality of Indigenous women through advocacy, education, research and policy. NWAC recognizes Indigenous women in the broadest sense, comprising status and non-status First Nations, Métis, Inuit,...
Organization: Journal of Social Inclusion
Publication Date: 2019
Homelessness is an ongoing social challenge effecting women in unique ways. The purpose of this research study was to understand a network of health and social services accessed by women experiencing homelessness, and how individuals successfully or unsuccessfully navigated these services. Data were collected utilizing a participatory application of the PhotoVoice method, grounded in a critical feminist intersectional perspective. Six women with...
Organization: The Bassuk Centre
Publication Date: 2019
This fact sheet was developed by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council and the National Network to End Family Homelessness, an initiative of The Bassuk Center on Homelessness and Vulnerable Children and Youth. The purpose is to ensure clinicians working with people experiencing homelessness understand the role of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in health outcomes as well as the options for responding.
Organization: Maytree
Publication Date: 2019
Governments in Canada, including Ontario, have begun to undertake efforts to ensure that young people in care can better realize their rights. Two years ago, Ontario passed the Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017, an important piece of legislation for a number of reasons, including the fact that it raises the age of protection for children up to the age of 18.
This report begins by exploring education as a human right, and the challenges f...
Organization: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Manitoba)
Publication Date: 2019
This report is a qualitative evaluation of the Fu- tures Forward six-month intensive Housing First pilot project. As such, this report will provide a qualitative analysis of: (1) the pathways to youth homelessness in order to provide broader con- text of the social conditions which programs like Futures Forward are responding to; (2) the experiences of youth leading up to their partici- pation in the program; and (3) the effects or out- comes of...
Publication Date: 2019
People experiencing any length of homelessness exhibit resilience and ingenuity in navigating geographies of street-level survival, in which food features prominently. The concept of ‘foodscapes’ has illuminated complex and often contradictory spatial and relational constructions embedded in food procurement routines (Miewald and McCann, 2014). On one hand, places of food provision offer spaces of refuge and socialization that contribute to a pos...
Publication Date: 2019
A significant proportion of homeless individuals experience mental illness. Housing First (HF), which provides immediate access to subsidized housing together with support services, has proven to be the most effective approach at helping such individuals access and maintain permanent housing.Previous analyses, using mostly before-and-after comparisons or quasi-experimental designs, have reported significant cost offsets associated with the provis...
Organization: Canadian Centre for Policy
Publication Date: 2019
The problems of intimate partner violence and housing insecurity are independent issues and each worthy of discussion on their own. However, for women in northern communities these issues are often co-occurring. Violence is a major contributor to women experiencing homelessness, but the threat of homelessness can be an ever-present concern in a place where access to housing is, in its own right, a challenge. Understanding the problem of intimate...
Organization: The Elizabeth Fry Society, The Indigenous Health, Housing and Homelessness Collaboration
Publication Date: 2019
The Indigenous Health, Housing and Homelessness Committee (a collaboration between the Aboriginal Standing Committee on Housing and Homelessness and the Collaborative for Health and Home) is in the process of developing a harm reduction housing model for Indigenous people. In order to accurately understand the most effective and culturally appropriate approaches, a review of the previous 20 years of Indigenous housing work and an environmental sc...
Organization: The Elizabeth Fry Society, The Indigenous Health, Housing and Homelessness Collaboration
Publication Date: 2019
The Indigenous Health, Housing and Homelessness Committee (a collaboration between the Aboriginal Standing Committee on Housing and Homelessness and the Collaborative for Health and Home) is in the process of developing a harm reduction housing model for Indigenous people. In order to accurately understand the most effective and culturally appropriate approaches, a review of the previous 20 years of Indigenous housing work and an environmenta...
Struggles, successes, and setbacks: Youth aging out of child welfare in a subsidized housing program
Publication Date: 2019
Youth aging out of the child welfare system report high rates of unstable housing and homelessness which has been associated with problems including employment, education, health and mental health. This study used ethnographic data to examine a program providing subsidized apartments to youth aging out. The study sought to understand youths' and service providers' perceptions and experiences about the program. Receiving services and stable housin...
Publication Date: 2019
Indigenous people are over represented among homeless populations worldwide and the prevalence of Indigenous homelessness appears to be increasing in Canadian cities. Violence against Indigenous women in Canada has been widely publicized but has not informed the planning of housing interventions. Despite historical policies leading to disenfranchisement of Indigenous rights in gender-specific ways, little is known about contemporary differences i...
Organization: UNICEF Canada
Publication Date: 2019
Many Canadians believe that Canada is the best place in the world to grow up. Is it?
Canada’s wealth has been steadily rising, but our overall level of child and youth well-being hasn’t budged in more than a decade. Why?
The Canadian Index of Child and Youth Well-being measures levels, inequalities and trends in the state of children and youth. It’s a big ‘selfie’ of Canada, a snapshot that looks atmany aspects of childhood to help Canadians unde...
Organization: Metcalf Foundation
Publication Date: 2017
This paper illustrates how ordinary Canadians receive very different treatments from Canada’s income security system. Contrary to what many believe to be true, income security from Canada’s programs often increases with both wealth and income. In addition, it is not widely known that benefit clawbacks are most extreme at the lower end of the income scale. Those who are better off are often able to keep most, if not all, of the income security ben...
Organization: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publication Date: 2017
This report examines the most recent statistics on poverty and its associated hardships in BC and demonstrates that strong policies are urgently needed to dramatically reduce and ultimately eliminate poverty in BC.