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Organization: A Way Home Canada, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab
Publication Date: 2022
A Way Home Canada recently submitted this pre-budget submission which asks the federal government to consider a Federal Youth Homelessness Prevention strategy.
The Youth Strategy under Reaching Home presents an opportunity to transform how we, as a collective, approach youth homelessness. To do this, we can shift from managing the youth homelessness crisis, which puts youth at risk, to an approach that considers the well-being of young people, a...
Organization: A Way Home Canada, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, National Learning Community on Youth Homelessness
Publisher: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press
Publication Date: 2021
A priority for A Way Home Canada and the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is to assess youth-serving organizations’ engagement and comfort levels with two core features of Reaching Home: Coordinated Access Systems (CAS) and Homeless Individuals and Families Information System (HIFIS) or Homelessness Management Information System (HMIS) for data management. CASs are often used to connect people who are chronically homeless to local programs an...
Organization: Lived Experience Lab, A Way Home Canada, Covenant House
Publisher: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press
Publication Date: 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting societal inequities in an unprecedented manner. Young people who are experiencing or have experienced homelessness are disproportionately impacted by the negative socioeconomic consequences of the pandemic. The pandemic has also made visible the precarious existence in which these young people live.
The aim of this knowledge synthesis was to deliver real-world evidence on promising mental health and substance...
Organization: Lived Experience Lab, A Way Home Canada, Covenant House
Publication Date: 2020
Goal: The overall goal of this project is to rapidly synthesize real-world knowledge on promising mental health and substance use practices utilized by front-line providers serving young people who are experiencing or have experienced homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Background: An estimated 35,000-40,000 Canadian youth (aged 13 – 24 years) experience homelessness at some point during the year and at least 6,000 on any given night (Gaet...
Publication Date: 2020
The COVID-19 crisis is disproportionately affecting people that are precariously housed, homeless, and/or lack access to hygiene and space for physical distancing. For young people, access to stable housing and supports to cope during and after the crisis are essential. Meeting basic needs, navigating the housing and income support systems, staying connected to education/training, and receiving mental health supports are ongoing priorities for yo...
Organization: A Way Home Canada, Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab
Publication Date: 2020
This important submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child outlines how Canada can use the Duty to Assist model to accelerate its obligations under General Comment No. 21 to protect the rights of children and youth at risk of homelessness.
Organization: The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, A Way Home Canada
Publication Date: 2018
Are we making significant headway on youth homelessness in Canada? Are we stopping young people from becoming homeless? Are we ensuring that young people transition out of homelessness quickly, and that they do not become homeless again?
It is time that we started taking a good, hard look at these questions. In our efforts to end homelessness, we have primarily focused on providing emergency services and supports to young people while they are...
Organization: Wales Center for Public Policy
Publication Date: 2018
Over the summer of 2018, the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and A Way Home Canada conducted an international scan of policies and practices that are contributing to youth homelessness prevention. The Wales Centre for Public Policy commissioned this report for Public Policy, under the direction of the First Minister of Wales. Drawing together a extensive literature review, review of the grey literature, and consultation with international ex...
Organization: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and A Way Home Canada
Publication Date: 2018
In recent years there has been a notable shift in policy and scholarship towards preventing youth homelessness. In response to the shortcomings of reactive policy, countries around the world are developing, implementing, and evaluating ways to reduce the likelihood that any young person will become homeless.
In the context of a global shift towards prevention, this international review identifies evidence-based interventions, promising practices,...
Organization: A Way Home Canada; Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2017
In a caring and affluent society like Canada, it is unacceptable that any young person would become entrenched in homelessness as a result of family breakdown and systems failures. Despite little evidence that we are reducing youth homelessness, we continue to rely on crisis responses such as emergency shelters and day programs. Even worse, it is objectionable to simply rely on a crisis response to address the issue, exposing young people to harm...
Organization: A Way Home Canada, The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2017
With the release of Without a Home: The National Youth Homelessness Survey (2016), we now have robust national data on the links between youth homelessness and child welfare involvement. Without a Home, conducted by the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness in partnership with A Way Home Canada, surveyed 1,103 youth experiencing homelessness across Canada. Youth in 42 different communities and nine of the 10 Canadian provinces, as well as Nuna...
Publisher: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2017
Alberta is a western province in Canada with an estimated population of 4,268,929, as of October 1, 2015. It is Canada’s fourth most populous province and the most populous of Canada’s three prairie provinces. Alberta’s two largest municipalities, Edmonton and Calgary, make up just under half the province’s total population, with a combined population of 1,999,447. The Edmonton–Calgary corridor is the most urbanized region in the province, and on...