Youth-Informed Lessons for Canadian Education Policy

This exploratory study draws on interviews with nine young people with lived experience of housing instability across Australia, the United States, and Wales to examine how school-based homelessness policies and supports are experienced in practice. The article offer lessons for Canada, where youth homelessness prevention has not yet been systematically embedded within education policy, emphasizing the importance of meaningful youth participation, cross-sector collaboration, educator capacity, accessible supports, and sustained investment.