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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...
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.
Organization: Hub Solutions
Publisher: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press
Publication Date: 2021
Reaching Home has funded Hub Solutions, a social enterprise of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) to research the needs of frontline staff in the homelessness support sector and identify opportunities and avenues to improve employment and workplace conditions in the sector.
Four research questions guided this work:
What are the key skills (e.g., technical, interpersonal, educational, lived experience, empathy, etc.) that are require...
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...