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Publication Date: 2020
On any given night, thousands of Canadian youth face homelessness in either absolute (living on the street) or relative (couch surfing, staying in emergency shelters) terms (Gaetz, Dej, Richter, & Redman, 2016). This study explores influences on primary health care access among youth experiencing homelessness in a large Canadian urban centre. Using a qualitative research design and critical social justice lens, eight youth participated in ind...
Publication Date: 2020
The overarching aim of this study is to assess whether and how rent subsidies and mentorship influence social integration outcomes for formerly homeless young people living in market rent housing in 3 Canadian cities. The primary outcome measures for this study are community integration (psychological and physical) and self-esteem at 18 months. Secondary outcomes include social connectedness, hope, and academic and vocational participation at 18...
Organization: BC Housing
Publication Date: 2020
This report highlights mostly B.C.-based research and includes key information, facts, and statistics to answer common questions that neighbours, local government, and other stakeholders may have about supportive housing. The easy-to-read question and answer format also includes infographics to showcase the benefits of supportive housing in neighbourhoods across British Columbia and beyond.
Organization: Edmonton Social Planning Council
Publication Date: 2020
Every night, hundreds of thousands of Alberta children suffer the all-encompassing effects of poverty. Poverty is the single most important determinant of health for both children and adults.1 In Canada, approximately 1 in 5 children live below the poverty line.2 This leads to debilitating effects for their personal physical and mental health, which can cause lasting damage.
Research shows that children and youth who grow up impoverished face sig...
Publication Date: 2020
Homelessness is a chronic public health issue in the U.S. This paper reviews the endurance and evolution of individual, youth, and family homelessness over the past 40-plus years. Thematic findings detail research on predictors of homelessness among adolescents, runaway youth, veterans, older adults, sheltered families, and female-headed families. Results provide a summary of contributors to homelessness, including issues related to family instab...
Organization: Maytree
Publication Date: 2020
This report looks at the possibilities and limitations of the Ontario government’s social assistance reforms, in particular changes to the employment and skills training offered to Ontario Works recipients.
Publication Date: 2020
This manuscript discusses how service providers can assist transgender youth in safely and successfully exiting homelessness.
Key Points:
Transgender individuals experience high rates of violence,discrimination and homelessness.
Psychiatric disorders should be managed before or concurrent with medical transition for gender dysphoria.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be a psychiatric comorbidity for transgender individuals who frequen...
Organization: Vibrant Communities Calgary
Publication Date: 2019
Vibrant Communities Calgary (VCC) is the backbone organization to a collective impact initiative in Calgary, Alberta. The mandate of VCC is to be a steward of Enough for All, Calgary’s poverty reduction strategy. The advancement of policy is a key component of VCC’s role as a backbone, and it is with this role in mind that VCC has decided to produce another report, collating statistics that reflect the incidence of low income in the Calgary Censu...
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General
Publication Date: 2020
In this chapter we discuss the issue of poverty legal aid services. Included in this chapter will be an analysis of the unique nature of poverty law needs and the context in which those needs are addressed currently. By necessity, much of this chapter analyses the role of community clinics. More specifically, this chapter contains a detailed discussion of the legislative mandate to deliver poverty law services, community governance, clinic accoun...
Organization: The Canadian Forem on Civil Justice
Publication Date: 2016
The Cost of Justice project (2011-2017) examines the social and economic costs of Canada’s justice system. It is guided by two questions: What is the cost of delivering access to justice? And what is the cost of not delivering access to justice? Comprised of leading researchers investigating various dimensions of access to justice and cost across the country, the Cost of Justice project is producing empirical data that will inform the future of a...
Organization: Canadian Poverty Institute, Ambrose University, and the Justice Sector Constellation
Publication Date: 2018
People who experience social and economic marginalization also often face accompanying legal issues. Research conducted in various jurisdictions, including Alberta in general and Calgary in particular, shows that low-income people are more susceptible to legal issues; some legal issues “cluster”, so that some people who face a legal issue often face more than one such issue; and legal issues often occur in the context of and may create or exacerb...
Organization: ACLRC
Publication Date: 2017
Publication Date: 2020
Homelessness is often considered to be an outcome of individual behaviours and shortcomings, or individual conditions. However, research has demonstrated that there are several policy factors that are strong predictors of homelessness at state or national levels. In fact, policies from sectors as various as the justice system, health system, income supports, and housing can all create the context in which people find themselves de-housed. This ch...
Publication Date: 2020
At a time where homelessness, inequality and poverty plague Canadian society, an organization in Whistler, British Columbia has been working for over 20 years to combat some of the associated issues faced by vulnerable youth. This multi-year research project explored one of the programs offered by the organization with the intent of gaining an understanding of the short- and long-term impact, the future requirements for sustainability and growth,...
Organization: Centre for Urban Health Solutions
Publication Date: 2020
In Toronto, the Medical Officer of Health issues an extreme cold weather alert when temperatures fall below -15C. Recently, researchers led by St. Michael’s Hospital reviewed coroner’s records and emergency department charts from five downtown hospitals to explore the relationship between weather conditions and hypothermia among adults experiencing homelessness between 2004-2015. They found that while extreme cold temperatures put people at highe...
Publication Date: 2020
In 2014, End Homelessness St. John’s (EHSJ) unveiled the St. John’s Community Plan to EndHomelessness 2014-2019. EHSJ is considered the system planning organization for the city’s homeless-serving sector. In that capacity, EHSJ plays a central coordinating role and funds important initiatives pertaining to the Plan.
The Plan estimated its total cost of implementation at $7.7 million, with federal funding (via theHomelessness Partnering Strategy –...
Publication Date: 2019
"My nurse hands once did more useful things. They immunized the fat, healthy thighs of infants, they carefully measured cardiac drugs to administer to young heart patients, they bathed both the elderly lady after her surgery and the 24-year-old Italian-Canadian woman after her death. My hands once mixed linseed poultices, rubbed twenty backs a night before darkness fell and, by flashlight, checked intravenous drips, catheters, and other tubing. T...