The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is the largest national research institute devoted to homelessness in Canada. The COH is the curator of the Homeless Hub.
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is the largest national research institute devoted to homelessness in Canada. The COH is the curator of the Homeless Hub.
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is the largest national research institute devoted to homelessness in Canada. The COH is the curator of the Homeless Hub.
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is the largest national research institute devoted to homelessness in Canada. The COH is the curator of the Homeless Hub.
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is the largest national research institute devoted to homelessness in Canada. The COH is the curator of the Homeless Hub.
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is the largest national research institute devoted to homelessness in Canada. The COH is the curator of the Homeless Hub.
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Author(s): Cyndy Baskin
Publication Date: 2005
As Aboriginal peoples begin to take control of research within the social services area, many of us are basing our methodologies on Aboriginal world views within an anti-colonial framework. Conventional as well as other guidelines for conducting research with Aboriginal peoples and communities must therefore emerge from the values of Aboriginal cultures. One Aboriginal research methodology - the storytelling circle - exemplifies these elements: t...
Author(s): Cyndy Baskin
Publisher: Canadian Observatory On Homelessness
Publication Date: 2013
This chapter raises awareness about the connections between the ongoing homelessness crisis within the Indigenous youth population in Toronto, Ontario and their past and present involvement with the child welfare system. Information within the chapter comes from four separate research projects that investigated youth and homelessness and the circumstances under which they left their homes, food security, poverty and mothering under the watch of c...
Author(s): Cyndy Baskin
Organization: Ryerson University School of Social Work
Publication Date: 2008
Struggles, Strengths and Solutions: Exploring Food Security with Young Aboriginal Moms is an arts-based research project from Cyndy Baskin of Ryerson University School of Social Work, which implemented Aboriginal research methodologies and cultural protocols. This project explored issues of food security with young Aboriginal mothers in Toronto, including the connections between food security and housing/homelessness, child welfare involvement, p...
Author(s): Cyndy Baskin
Publication Date: 2007
This article explores structural determinants as possible causes of the homelessness of Aboriginal youth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It includes a brief literature review and provides some of the findings of a recent research project, which implemented an Aboriginal research methodology with homeless youth in Toronto. These findings point to a strong link between Aboriginal children growing up in poverty and involvement in child welfare and beco...