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Understanding Community Integration in a Housing First Approach: Toronto At Home/ Chez Soi Community Based Research
Author(s): Linda Coltman, Susan Gapka, Dawnmarie Harriott, Michael Koo, Jenna Reid, Alex Zsager
Publication Date: 2015
The Mental Health Commission of Canada’s At Home/Chez Soi project has taken a housing-first approach, providing approximately half of the project participants with housing as well as services that are tailored to meet their needs, while the other half have access to the regular supports that are available in their community. At Home/Chez Soi worked specifically with people with experiences of homelessness and mental health. The People With Lived...
Meaningful inclusion of consumers in research and service delivery
Author(s): Jenna van Draanen, Jeyagobi Jeyaratnam, Patricia O’Campo, Stephen Hwang, Dawnmarie Harriott, Michael Koo, Vicky Stergiopoulos
Publication Date: 2013
Objective: Although participatory methods have become increasingly popular, people with lived experience of mental illness and homelessness have been historically excluded from service planning and research. To better plan for meaningful inclusion of consumers, this study examines lessons learned from the People with Lived Experience Caucus in the Toronto Site of the At Home/Chez Soi Research Demonstration Project on Homelessness and Mental Healt...
Breaking Ground: Peer Support for Congregate Living Settings
Author(s): Fionna Blair, Joyce Brown, Kristyn Dunnion, Dawnmarie Harriott, Phil Hozer, Joanne Knutson, Laura Lesser, Peter Lye, Becky McFarlane, Chris Persaud, Victor Willis
Publication Date: 2010
This community based research project began as a simple enquiry into the nature of peer delivered housing support, in the hopes of designing an ideal model for a supportive housing project which is currently under construction in Parkdale, Toronto. Edmond Place is the Parkdale Activity‐Recreation Centre’s prodigious enterprise which will provide 29 furnished units in a beautifully renovated historic building – the same neglected edifice that at o...