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oneROOF Host Homes Program Evaluation: Final Report
Author(s): John Ecker, Carter Sehn, Justine Levesque, Jenny Lam
Organization: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2021
The Local Poverty Reduction Fund is funded by the Government of Ontario and administered by the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
Host Homes Developmental Evaluation: Executive Summary
Author(s): John Ecker, Jenny Lam, Nathaniel Loranger, Erika Morton
Organization: Hub Solutions, Raising the Roof
Publication Date: 2021
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) partnered with Raising the Roof (RtR) to conduct a developmental evaluation of strategies to scale up the Host Homes model in Canada. The project received funding from Innoweave. The evaluation questions were co-created by the COH and RtR. The original questions to be answered were: How can the Host Homes model be adapted to meet the needs of diverse Canadian contexts (i.e., urban vs. rural, differe...
Hoarding in the Region of Peel: A Collaborative Response to a Complex Issue
Author(s): Carter Sehn, Jenny Lam, John Ecker, Anika Mifsud
Organization: Hub Solutions, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2021
Background Hoarding disorder is recognized as a distinct mental health diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5). It is commonly defined as  feeling  compelled to collect and save items, and a persistent difficulty  to discard  items (Kress et al, 2016; Dozier & Ayers, 2017). The compulsion to collect leads to an over-crowding of living spaces which can spread outside of living areas, and sign...