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Profile of Homelessness in Nunavut
Author(s): Cassandra Vink, Sheila Levy, Judie Bopp, Nancy Poole
Organization: Government of Nunavut, Poverty Reduction Division, Department of Family Services
Publication Date: 2014
A Profile of Homelessness in Nunavut makes an important contribution to unraveling some of this complexity. It builds on the work of earlier studies (such as those conducted by Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., the Nunavut Bureau of Statistics, the Nunavut Housing Corporation, Tester et al., Elliot et al. and Webster—see references in the bibliography section of this document). At the same time, a unique contribution of A Profile of Homelessness in Nunavut...
2.3 Communities of Practice as Locations for Facilitating Service Systems Improvement for Northern Homeless Women
Author(s): Judie Bopp, Nancy Poole, Rose Schmidt
Publisher: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2016
Attention to the gender-specific needs of homeless women in Canada’s North is crucial. The complexity of the issues involved warrants a whole system shift in social policy and service delivery, as well as in the way that many individual programs and professionals work. This chapter describes a participatory action research project involving service providers, policy advocates and researchers in the three northern territories who had the goal of c...
Trajectories of women’s homelessness in Canada’s 3 northern territories
Author(s): Rose Schmidt, Charlotte Hrenchuk, Judie Bopp, Nancy Poole
Publication Date: 2016
Background Repairing the Holes in the Net was a 2-year, multilevel action research project designed to inform the development of culturally appropriate and gender-specific services for northern women who are homeless or marginally housed and who face mental health and substance use concerns. The study was designed to learn about the barriers and supports experienced by homeless women in the North when accessing mental health care, shelter, housin...