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Author(s): Betty Edel, Kristiana Clemens, Charlotte Nolin, Amy Reinink, John Ecker, Carter Sehn, Babatunde Olusola Alabi
Organization: End Homelessness Winnipeg, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2022
This report provides an overview of Winnipeg’s journey to a coordinated housing and homelessness system.
End Homelessness Winnipeg, the Community Entity in Winnipeg, has been developing coordination processes for several years and is now at the point of building coordination practices across the entire housing and homelessness system. This process has been grounded in the knowledge from previous research reports and from the lived experience of...
Author(s): Rachel Caplan, Geoffrey Nelson, Jino Distasio, Corinne Isaak, Betty Edel, Myra Piat, Ph.D., Eric Macnaughton, Maritt Kirst, Michelle Patterson, Tim Aubry, Susan Mulligan, Paula Goering
Publication Date: 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the parent–child experiences of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous mothers and fathers experiencing homelessness, mental illness, and separation from their children. A qualitative thematic analysis of baseline and 18‐month follow‐up narrative interviews was used to compare 12 mothers (n = 8 Indigenous and n = 4 nonindigenous) with 24 fathers (n = 13 Indigenous and n = 11 non‐Indigenous). First, it was found that...
Author(s): Jino Distasio, Sarah Zell, Scott McCullough, Betty Edel
Organization: Institute of Urban Studies, The University of Winnipeg
Publication Date: 2019
The objective of this 13-month project was to pilot and address the gaps in policy and literature related to “Indigenized” Housing First (HF), by systematizing the At Home/Chez Soi Winnipeg findings. Also by undertaking a comprehensive review of how the HF approach is currently being implemented for Indigenous people in other communities around the world.
The gathered information was used to develop best practice guidelines on adapting and impl...