Latest Contributions
- Homeless Count
2020 Greater Victoria Point-in-Time Homeless Count and Housing Needs Strategy
Between March 11 and 12, 2020, over 175 citizen volunteers and staff, along with a cross-sector of service agencies and community partners, participated in the Capital Region’s third Point-in-Time Homeless...
- Journal
Where’s the Housing?
This project examined the effectiveness of a transitional program in breaking the cycle of homelessness. Within a community-based research approach, the authors conducted a case study to describe the program...
Latest Blog
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Q&A Series: Approaches to Harm Reduction during COVID-19
Harm Reduction continues to be one of the biggest challenges facing the health and homelessness sector during COVID-19. Reduced access to safe injection sites, social distancing mandates and limited PPE...
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Q&A Series: Harm Reduction in Shelters during COVID-19
Among the many challenges faced by the homelessness sector during COVID-19, Harm Reduction is perhaps one of the biggest. The pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated the crisis of addiction and overdose-related...
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Research
Harm Reduction in Housing and Shelters During COVID-19
COVID-19 has revealed a lot of inequities. For people that are homeless, it has shown how lack of housing puts people’s health and safety at risk due to inability to...
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General
Facing Homelessness: Evaluating Systemic Responses to Homelessness
Facing homelessness is a reality in urban and rural centres across Canada. It is a reality for those experiencing it and for those who care deeply about ending it. Even...
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General
Strategies to End Homelessness: Current Approaches to Evaluation
Many programs and policies in Canada and around the world have preventing or reducing homelessness as a goal. Do these programs really work? What kinds of programs have been evaluated?...
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Is there a place for harm reduction in our response to homelessness?
Many jurisdictions in Canada have begun to recognize the value of harm reduction and have developed innovative and effective programs to deal with the harms of substance use and addiction. ...