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The 2015 National Canadian Homeless Youth Survey: Mental Health and Addiction Findings
Author(s): Sean A. Kidd, Stephen Gaetz, Bill O’Grady
Publication Date: 2017
This study was designed to provide a representative description of the mental health of youth accessing homelessness services in Canada. It is the most extensive survey in this area to date and is intended to inform the development of mental health and addiction service and policy for this marginalized population.
Tickets…and More Tickets: A Case Study of the Enforcement of the Ontario Safe Streets Act
Author(s): Bill O’Grady, Stephen Gaetz, Kristy Buccieri
Publication Date: 2013
Anti-social behaviour statutes are proliferating in western societies, yet little statistical analysis has been conducted on their enforcement patterns and trends, particularly in Canada. A study of the Ontario Safe Streets Act enforcement in Toronto shows a 2,000 percent increase in tickets from 2000 to 2010, with most being issued downtown to homeless individuals. Further research shows that this increase is not the result of increasing crime r...
Inmate Reintegration: Current Practices, Challenges, and Explanations
Author(s): Rebekah Aloisio, Ryan Lafleur, Bill O’Grady
Organization: John Howard Society of Ontario; The Association for Effective Reintegration in Ontario (A. E. R. O.)
Publication Date: 2014
Successfully reintegrating individuals released from correctional facilities back into communities is a complex process that requires greater attention from society. Both in Canada and abroad, more ex-offenders are being released from prison only to find themselves unprepared for life on the outside as many lack stable housing, suffer from mental illness, have few job skills to secure basic employment, and all are marked with a criminal record....
20. Policing Street Youth in Toronto
Author(s): Bill O’Grady, Stephen Gaetz, Kristy Buccieri
Publisher: Canadian Observatory On Homelessness
Publication Date: 2013
In this chapter we draw on research conducted with 244 homeless youth and discuss the frequent interactions these young people have with law enforcement officials in Toronto and the effect this has on their experiences of being homeless in the city. We argue that the current response to homelessness – that is, one that focuses on emergency services like shelters, drop-in centres, and food programs – does little to prevent and/or move people out o...
15. Why Don’t You Just Get a Job? Homeless Youth, Social Exclusion and Employment Training
Author(s): Stephen Gaetz, Bill O’Grady
Publisher: Canadian Observatory On Homelessness
Publication Date: 2013
In this chapter, we ask a key question: What is the role of employment training programs in helping young people move off the streets? More and more communities struggle with how to enhance the employability of homeless youth, often knowing that traditional employment training programs and supports have not always successfully engaged the most marginal of youth populations. Our understanding of youth homelessness and employment is drawn from wha...