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Rapid Review of Peer Reviewed Literature of Housing and Homelessness and Women Fleeing Domestic Violence, with a Focus on Aboriginal Women (Background Document)
Author(s): Carol Adair
Organization: Alberta Centre for Child Family and Community Research
Publication Date: 2016
This report is a background document prepared for Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Abstract: The Alberta Centre for Child Family and Community Research (ACCFCR) has developed a research strategy on homelessness, and stakeholders have recently identified three priorities including homelessness among women fleeing intimate partner violence/domestic violence, with a special focus on Aboriginal women....
Background Document: Rapid Review of Peer Reviewed Literature of Housing and Homelessness and Women Fleeing Domestic Violence, with a Focus on Aboriginal Women
Author(s): Carol Adair
Organization: Alberta Centre for Child Family and Community Research
Publication Date: 2015
The Alberta Centre for Child Family and Community Research (ACCFCR) has developed a research strategy on homelessness, and stakeholders have recently identified three priorities including homelessness among women fleeing intimate partner violence/domestic violence, with a special focus on Aboriginal women. As part of preparation for stakeholder discussions about priorities and foci for potential research projects, ACCFCR commissioned a very brief...
National At Home/Chez Soi Final Report
Author(s): Paula Goering, Scott Veldhuizen, Aimee Watson, Carol Adair, Brianna Kopp, Eric Latimer, Geoff Nelson, Eric Macnaughton, David Streiner, Tim Aubry
Organization: Mental Health Commission of Canada
Publication Date: 2014
This report documents the final results of the At Home/Chez Soi research demonstration project, which examined Housing First as a means of ending homelessness for people living with mental illness in Canada. The project followed more than 2,000 participants for two years, and was the world’s largest trial of Housing First, with demonstration sites in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montréal, and Moncton. This report is also available on the Mental...
History and Measurement of Continuity of Care in Mental Health Services and Evidence of Its Role in Outcomes
Author(s): Carol Adair, Gerald McDougall, Anora Beckie, Anthony Joyce, Craig Mitton, Cameron Wild, Alan Gordon, Norman Costigan
Publication Date: 2003
Objectives: The objective of this study was to provide a brief history of the concept of continuity of care, to update evidence of its association with patient outcomes, and to identify optimal characteristics of a continuity-of-care instrument. Methods: Articles describing recent (1990 to 2002) empirical work on continuity of care were drawn from a broader set of 305 articles about continuity of care that were obtained from a systematic litera...
At Home/Chez Soi Interim Report
Author(s): Paula Goering, Scott Veldhuizen, Aimee Watson, Carol Adair, Brianna Kopp, Eric Latimer, Angela Ly
Organization: Mental Health Commission of Canada
Publication Date: 2012
Over 900 individuals from our shelters and on our streets who have not been well served by our current approach are now housed in adequate, affordable and suitable settings. Eighty six percent of participants remain in their first or second unit (as of August 2012). At 12 months those in the Housing First intervention had spent an average of 73% of their time in stable housing. In contrast, those in treatment as usual (TAU) spend only 30% of thei...