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Publication Date: 2019
The Tool provides one-page overviews for each of the main interventions in homelessness. At a glance, the overviews give ratings for how reliable the body of evidence is, how cost effective the intervention is and what kind of impact it has for people experiencing homelessness. These measures represent an aggregate of the available studies.
Each overview will also provide a breakdown of the findings from the body of evidence, including detail on...
Organization: Chapin Hall
Publication Date: 2019
Young people across five diverse U.S. counties shared stories of instability that highlighted missed opportunities for prevention and intervention. Youth’s insights point to critical areas for improvement: the need for multilevel supports for individuals and families, the importance of peers for building connections to trustworthy spaces and resources, and the identification of specific changes that need to be made to service systems. This is the...
Publication Date: 2019
The present study investigates the nature of homelessness among at-risk youth transitioning into adulthood. Current policies use multiple definitions to determine eligibility for homeless services among adolescents and emerging adults. Conflicting criteria demarcate different thresholds along an assumed continuum ranging from frequent mobility to living on the streets. Multiple eligibility criteria impede cohesive service provision and prevention...
Organization: Loft Community Services
Publication Date: 2019
Creating, Managing and Supporting Spaces for Young Adult Experts and Peers (2018) was first imagined in mid-2018 as a culminating event of the Housing Outreach ProjectCollaborative (HOP-C). Led by young adult Peer Specialist, Mardi Daley and a team of front-line workers and researchers, the full-day Design Lab was meant to bring diverse stakeholders together on the premise of building better understanding and policies for organizations that do (o...
Organization: Hub Solutions, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, Raising the Roof
Publication Date: 2018
HireUp is an online employment platform designed to assist young people who face barriers in obtaining employment. HireUp received funding from the Innovative Solutions to Homelessness (ISH) grant administered by the Homelessness Partnering Strategy, Employment and Social Development Canada, Government of Canada. As part of this grant, funding was dedicated to a thirdparty evaluator to assess the development and outcomes of the program. Hub Solut...
Developing an effective and transparent governance model is essential in systems planning.
Systems governance and leadership looks quite different than what we may be used to in many non-profit or corporate models. It requires aligning many organizations and stakeholders, each with their own mandates and accountabilities models, under the banner of preventing and ending homelessness. This module explores diverse governance models in Canada and ho...
Module 3 explores who our stakeholders are in the context of Systems Planning. It looks at Stakeholder Mapping - how to identify who is in your network currently and who else you should engage, followed by some of the challenges of stakeholder engagement with some suggested ways to mitigate those challenges. The module closes with looking ahead to the related content and tools that will become available through the Systems Planning Collective tha...
To ensure we are starting from the same place, some definitions are essential. An important part of effective systems planning is having a common language. As we begin collaborating with multiple stakeholders and organizations at any point in our Systems Planning, it is important to agree on common language throughout the process. This module covers:
The Who, What and Why of the Systems Planning Collective
Gaining an understanding of Systems Plan...
The Systems Planning Essentials modules can be shared with coalition leadership and working group members, managerial staff, frontline workers, and other stakeholders involved in Systems Planning work that need basic foundations for understanding the current knowledge on homelessness and how to prevent and end it. This module is part of the baseline curriculum for Systems Planning Leadership and Organizational Leaders, and should be completed bef...
Organization: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, A Way Home Canada, Turner Strategies
Publication Date: 2019
The objective of this study is to understand the experience of Metro Vancouver’s Homelessness Partnering Strategy-funded Housing First program and how it is functioning from the perspective of a representative sample of providers and clients who deliver and receive HF services.
Organization: Chapin Hall
Publication Date: 2019
From 2012-2018, the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF), and its core partners (The Connection, Inc. (TCI), the University of Connecticut, and Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago) planned, developed, implemented, and evaluated a supportive housing (SH) intervention for families in the child welfare system. This federally-funded demonstration project capitalized on a longstanding statewide SH program and synergized a number...
Organization: Wellesley Institute
Publication Date: 2019
This report offers foundational evidence that is needed to implement an initiative that will improve outcomes for children and youth. The evidence collected came from four research activities. In our community profiles, demographics and social and developmental statistics were collected to help identify needs as well as community strengths. A program inventory was produced to offer an assessment of the services and supports available from cradle ...
Organization: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness; A Way Home Canada
Publisher: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, A Way Home Canada
Publication Date: 2018
It is time for a proactive, rather than reactive, approach to youth homelessness. The Roadmap for the Prevention of Youth Homelessness is designed to help service providers, policy makers, communities, advocates, researchers, and all people in Canada better understand the meaning of youth homelessness prevention. It provides a clear definition of youth homelessness prevention, a prevention typology, and a common language for policy and practice,...
Organization: National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Publication Date: 2019
Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people in Canada have been the targets of violence for far too long. This truth is undeniable. The fact that this National Inquiry is happening now doesn’t mean that Indigenous Peoples waited this long to speak up; it means it took this long for Canada to listen.
More than 2,380 people participated in the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, some in more ways than one. Four...
Organization: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2017
Prevention makes sense. To prevent disease, we vaccinate. To prevent traffic deaths, we install seat belts. While we recognize intuitively that preventing homelessness is a good idea, there has been little movement in Canada to make that happen on a national scale. A New Direction: A Framework for Homelessness Prevention sets out to provide the language and clarity to begin that conversation.
Since mass homelessness emerged in the mid-1980s, we...
Organization: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness; A Way Home Canada
Publication Date: 2017
In recent years, policy-makers and service providers have expressed concerns about whether and how Housing First can be applied to the population of young people who experience homelessness. In response, A Safe and Decent Place to Live was developed to provide a workable framework for Housing First for Youth (HF4Y). It is important to note that the development of this framework was the result of a collaboration between the Canadian Observatory on...
Organization: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness; A Way Home Canada; National Learning Community on Youth Homelessness
Publication Date: 2016
Youth homelessness continues to be a seemingly intractable problem in Canada. We believe there are solutions, and that means leveraging the best knowledge we have to do things differently.
The Without a Home study is the first pan-Canadian study of young people who experience homelessness. With 1,103 respondents from 47 different communities across 10 provinces and territories, this study’s sample size has enabled us to conduct detailed analyses...
Organization: The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, A Way Home Canada
Publication Date: 2018
Are we making significant headway on youth homelessness in Canada? Are we stopping young people from becoming homeless? Are we ensuring that young people transition out of homelessness quickly, and that they do not become homeless again?
It is time that we started taking a good, hard look at these questions. In our efforts to end homelessness, we have primarily focused on providing emergency services and supports to young people while they are...
Publication Date: 2018
Trusting and empathic relationships between project workers and people experiencing homelessness (PEH) form the cornerstone for their needs to be met. However, under the UK austerity agenda project workers practice in a context of increasing pressure and limited resources; with relationships often characterised by conditionality and disconnection. The purpose of this paper is to report on a study investigating project workers’ experiences of buil...