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Publication Date: 2021
Using the examples of Canada and Wales, this article explores how international interactions are contributing to the transformation of responses to homelessness among young people. Focus is given to the shift from an emphasis in both practice and investment from a crisis response, to a stronger focus on prevention.
Publication Date: 2021
This 2021 report explores the idea that the Government and service providers should be held to equitable standards when transitioning youth in care to adulthood. It is argued that this ensures that youth in care are supported in the same way across the country and afforded equitable supports and conditions for success, so they are able to thrive.
Publication Date: 2021
Background
LGBTQ2S youth are overrepresented among youth experiencing homelessness and experi- ence significantly higher rates of mental health issues compared to heterosexual and cis- gender youth. COVID-19 related challenges for LGBTQ2S youth experiencing homelessness remain unknown. To address this gap, this study aimed to understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on LGBTQ2S youth at risk of, and experiencing, home- lessness in the Great...
Publisher: The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
Publication Date: 2021
As Canada relies on a greater number of immigrants to replace falling fertility rates, ensuring labour market access will help newcomers enjoy higher incomes and allow others to benefit from their skills. Microfinance is one option that provides newcomers with funds to achieve their labour market potential. Other options include public policies that address licensing, credentialling, and the mismatch between these and Canadian objectives around i...
Organization: The Simpson Centre for Agriculture and Food Innovation and Public Education
Publisher: The School of Public Policy Publications
Publication Date: 2021
Canada’s food system has evolved under pressure to constantly produce more and do so more efficiently. However, the drive for increased productivity has also led to rising levels of food loss and waste. In Canada, over half of our annual food supply is discarded. Wasted resources, economic costs, pollution and growing numbers of citizens who are food insecure underline the importance of tackling this critical public policy issue. The aim of this...
Publisher: Wellesley Institute, Ontario Health
Publication Date: 2021
Ontario’s early COVID-19 pandemic response emphasized “flattening the curve” – an approach that focussed on applying public health measures equally across regions and populations to drive down daily case counts. As it became clear that certain communities were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, the focus shifted to mitigating inequities, with the recognition that infection control and protecting vulnerable Ontarians were mutually reinfo...
Publication Date: 2021
Harm reduction is a central tenet of Housing First. As the intervention has been shown to stably house people experiencing chronic homelessness across the lifespan with complex behavioural health needs, it is critical to understand the harm reduction outcomes and practices in Housing First. This systematic review examines Harm reduction outcomes and practices in Housing First across four domains: substance-related harms, viral health, sexual heal...
Organization: Hub Solutions
Publisher: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press
Publication Date: 2021
Reaching Home has funded Hub Solutions, a social enterprise of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) to research the needs of frontline staff in the homelessness support sector and identify opportunities and avenues to improve employment and workplace conditions in the sector.
Four research questions guided this work:
What are the key skills (e.g., technical, interpersonal, educational, lived experience, empathy, etc.) that are require...
Organization: Government of Canada and British Columbia
Publication Date: 2021
Housing affordability is a crisis touching millions of Canadians — particularly in British Columbia (BC). This report puts forward five calls to action and 23 policy recommendations for increasing the supply of affordable housing in BC.
Organization: Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network
Publication Date: 2021
The National Housing Strategy Act (NHSA) establishes housing as a human right in domestic legislation, and requires that the National Housing Strategy (NHS) adopt a rights-based approach. However, there are significant gaps between NHS programs and the NHSA when it comes to protecting the rights of women and gender diverse people. This report employs a rights-based, GBA+ analysis to explore how the NHS can progressively realize the right to housi...
Organization: Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network, Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, Keepers of the Circle, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
Publisher: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press
Publication Date: 2021
This survey is the largest national gender-specific survey on housing need and homelessness in Canada to date. Completed by 500 women and gender diverse people, this survey provides insight into the unique causes, conditions, and consequences of housing precarity and homelessness for women, girls and gender diverse people. The report highlights 10 key challenges that illustrate why and how homelessness is gendered, offering 21 recommendations for...
Publication Date: 2021
Historically, governmental responses to homelessness in Canada have defaulted to the most basic of services such as food and shelter. Even under exceptional circumstances, such as the current coronavirus pandemic, governments still demonstrate reluctance to guarantee permanent, adequate and affordable housing to all. In this policy review we argue that this pattern suggests that reticence is an apt term for describing homelessness responses in Ca...
Organization: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publication Date: 2021
Canada has committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Among other implications, “decarbonizing” the Canadian economy will require the winding down of coal, oil and natural gas projects across the country with potentially harmful effects for the hundreds of thousands of workers and dozens of regional economies currently dependent on fossil fuel production.
In recognition and anticipation of the socioeconomic impacts of its c...
Organization: Citizens for Public Justice
Publication Date: 2020
Poverty is experienced in many different ways, depending on the unique and intersecting identities of each person, their community, and where they live Poverty involves material deprivation (not having the physical things we need) and social exclusion (barriers to participating in economic, political, or community opportunities). Both are related and have profound impacts on individuals’ and communities’ physical, mental, and social wellbeing. Ad...
Organization: Campaign 2000
Publication Date: 2020
For over 30 years, Campaign 2000 has been tracking government progress to meet their all-party, unanimous objective to end child poverty by the year 2000. Each year, our child and family report cards call for urgent action, bold policies and appropriate investments that work together to end poverty, inequity and systemic discrimination. Never before have these inequities been so apparent and the need to close gaps so dire. Before the pandemic ens...
Publication Date: 2021
This study examines the experiences of adults who identify as LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) and who have accessed emergency shelters in an urban Canadian city. Twenty LGBTQ adults who were currently or formerly homeless participated in one qualitative interview. The interview protocol included questions on the participants’ experiences accessing emergency shelters, with a focus on interactions with other emergency shelter res...
Publication Date: 2020
In early April, Calgary Police Service reported an upswing in domestic violence calls, stirring up many questions and concerns about the effect that COVID-19 was having on vulnerable families. But while CPS was responding to more calls, some local agencies and shelters were seeing an unprecedented lull in demand, something they all agree is deeply concerning.
Publisher: Alberta Council of Disability Services
Publication Date: 2020
On March 17, 2020, Alberta declared a public health emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many industries, the Community Disability Services (CDS) sector responded rapidly and creatively to unforeseen challenges. The pandemic also exacerbated longstanding problems in the CDS sector. ACDS has produced a research report synthesizing how service providers in the CDS sector were impacted during the first six months since the public health emer...
Publisher: Statistics Canada
Publication Date: 2020
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) identified those facing economic barriers, and those with insecure, inadequate or nonexistent housing as particularly vulnerable populations during the pandemic (PHAC 2020a). Measures put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 bring a unique set of challenges to LGBTQ2+ Canadians - that is, Canadians who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, Two-Spirit or report another non-binary gender or minorit...
Publisher: OECD
Publication Date: 2020
A holistic approach to education –that addresses students’ learning, social and emotional needs –is crucial, especially in times of crisis. School closures related to the current COVID-19 pandemic mean that students from diverse backgrounds who are more at risk of increased vulnerability are less likely to receive the support and extra services they need, and the gap between students that experience additional barriers and that do not might widen...