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Publication Date: 2018
Executive Summary
The objective of the enumeration project was to obtain information about the number, socio-demographic/linguistic characteristics, histories of homelessness and prior experiences of homeless persons. The enumeration study was conducted in a manner consistent with the requirement of the Province of Ontario to conduct project to count the number of people living with homelessness within every district in the province. It is linked...
Organization: Laurentian University, University of Sudbury
Publication Date: 2017
Abstract: This special issue describes a multi-year community-university research alliance that explores issues related to poverty, homelessness, housing and migration in a vast region within northern Ontario, Canada. This introductory article explains the approach to the methodology used in the project and provides and an integrative perspective to the studies undertaken. The six articles presented in this special issue are placed in a broader c...
Organization: Laurentian University
Publication Date: 2017
Abstract: This study fills a gap in the literature by expanding knowledge about migratory/transient homelessness in a northern Ontario context. Con-ducted in Sudbury (Ontario) Canada, this multi-methods study included an analysis of existing quan-titative and qualitative data (from 2000-2007), a sur-vey of homeless persons (2009) and focus groups with service users and providers (2009). Key findings indicate that migrants constitute about a fift...
Organization: Laurentian University
Publication Date: 2017
Abstract: This article describes a study on home-lessness within a First Nation community (NEO FN), including the characteristics and reasons for home-lessness, the size of the at risk population, service utilization, the impact of homelessness and models of collaboration between agencies. An objective was to gather information for the development of a com-munity-based strategy for addressing homelessness, including the need and possibility of es...
Organization: Centre for Research in Social Justice and Policy, Laurentian University
Publication Date: 2015
The purpose of this study was to gather up-to-date information about various subgroups within the homeless population in Sudbury. The City of Greater Sudbury (CGS) required a point-in-time count (PIT) of homeless persons — including a count of chronically and episodically homeless people — in order to obtain information about their socio-demographic/linguistic characteristics as well as to identify the number of veterans/people with military serv...
Publication Date: 2015
This study fills a gap in the literature by expanding knowledge about migratory/transient homelessness in a northern Ontario context. Conducted in Sudbury (Ontario) Canada, this multi-methods study included an analysis of existing quantitative and qualitative data (from 2000-2007), a survey of homeless persons (2009) and focus groups with service users and providers (2009). Key findings indicate that migrants constitute about a fifth to a quarter...
Publication Date: 2015
This article describes the number of people who are homeless and absolutely homeless in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. The total homeless population (high-risk and absolutely homeless) identified in the study (n=513) included 150 infants, children and adolescents under age 15. The majority of homeless people were adults in their 20s, 30s, or 40s. Indigenous people were greatly over-represented among the homeless population as 26% of homeless people...
Publication Date: 2015
Homelessness has been described as a crisis within Canada; yet little published research has described the extent and nature of homelessness within communities in northeastern Ontario, Canada. A period prevalence count was conducted of the homeless population using emergency shelters, social service agencies, and other services in the City of Timmins, in northeastern Ontario, Canada. The total homeless population (high-risk and absolutely homeles...
Organization: Laurentian University
Publication Date: 2012
This report provides a detailed portrait of the homeless population in Timmins by providing information on the following points:
the numbers of people who, during the week of 24 to 30 January 2011, were at risk of becoming homeless or were absolutely homeless in Timmins;
the background characteristics including children, youth, women, men, subgroups in the homeless population (i. e. those of Anglo/European origins, Aboriginal people, and Francoph...
Publication Date: 2013
Research utilizing the individual case study method examined the complex issues related to pathways into and out of homelessness for an Aboriginal man from a First Nation community on the western James Bay in Canada. This instrumental case study focused on an individual’s story, rather than on a site or a group of individuals, an incident or a series of incidents, or a program [6] [15]. First, as a research tool, it provides insight into the issu...
Organization: Centre for Research in Social Justice and Policy Laurentian University
Publication Date: 2013
This report describes the following:
the number of people who are near homeless in North Bay and absolutely homeless;
breakdowns on background characteristics including children, youth, women, men, and subgroups in the population (i.e. those of Anglo/European origins, Aboriginal people, and Francophones);
sources of income;
reasons for homelessness; and
trends in referral of homeless people.