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Profile of Homelessness in Nunavut
Author(s): Cassandra Vink, Sheila Levy, Judie Bopp, Nancy Poole
Organization: Government of Nunavut, Poverty Reduction Division, Department of Family Services
Publication Date: 2014
A Profile of Homelessness in Nunavut makes an important contribution to unraveling some of this complexity. It builds on the work of earlier studies (such as those conducted by Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., the Nunavut Bureau of Statistics, the Nunavut Housing Corporation, Tester et al., Elliot et al. and Webster—see references in the bibliography section of this document). At the same time, a unique contribution of A Profile of Homelessness in Nunavut...
A Little Kindness Would Go a Long Way: A Study of Women's Homelessness in The Yukon
Author(s): Charlotte Hrenchuck, Judie Bopp
Organization: Yukon Status of Women Council
Publication Date: 2007
“A Little Kindness would go a Long Way” is the result of a project funded by the Federal Homelessness Initiative. Additional funding in the Yukon was provided by the Crime Prevention Action Fund, the Yukon Women's Directorate, the Whitehorse PSAC Women's Committee and the Yukon Federation of Labour. It is the result of coalition of women’s organizations in the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut that wanted to understand the scope and dynami...
The Little Voices of Nunavut: A Study of Women's Homelessness North of 60
Author(s): Shylah Elliott, Rian van Bruggen, Judie Bopp
Organization: Qulliit Nunavut Status of Women Council
Publication Date: 2007
In the fall of 2005, a pan-territorial steering committee of service providers and women’s advocacy organizations1 was set up and received funding from the National Secretariat on Homelessness to carry out research on homelessness in Northern women. A Study of Women’s Homelessness North of 60, as the study was to be called, was divided into three territorial research projects with work being carried out in the three territorial capitals: Whitehor...
You Just Blink and It Can Happen: A Study of Women's Homelessness North of 60
Author(s): Judie Bopp, Rian van Bruggen, Shylah Elliott, Lyda Fuller, Mira Hache, Charlotte Hrenchuck, Mary Beth Levan, Gillan McNaughton
Organization: Four Worlds Centre for Development Learning
Publication Date: 2007
Research about women’s homelessness in the North is critical, since women have been identified as among the fastest growing groups in the homeless and at-risk population (Neal 2004). In the North, all women can be considered at risk of homelessness because a small change in their circumstances can jeopardize the fragile structure of their lives that allows them to meet their basic needs. Although everyone living in the Canada’s three northern ter...