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Policy Brief: Towards an Ontario Youth Homelessness Strategy
Last October, when the Province of Ontario released A Place to Call Home, the report of the expert advisory panel on homelessness, youth homelessness was identified as one of four...
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Systems Planning Collective Learning Modules
The Systems Planning Collective has heard from communities across Canada that there is a desire to pursue systems planning for prevention and sustained exits from homelessness. Regardless of the size...
Latest Blog
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Discrimination & Homelessness
Discrimination refers to intentional or unintentional actions that negatively affect people, based on biases and prejudices. People may experience discrimination because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, age and/or...
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Rural Populations & Northern Communities
One of the challenges in understanding homelessness and responding to it is that it is often framed as an urban, inner-city issue. There are several important reasons for this, including...
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Health & Homelessness
The health of populations – individuals, their families and communities – is determined by the complex interaction of many factors – social, political, economic, legal, cultural, historical and biomedical. Of...
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Case Management
Case management refers to a collaborative and planned approach to ensuring that a person who experiences homelessness gets the services and supports they need to move forward with their lives....
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Social Enterprise
While there is no commonly agreed upon definition for a social enterprise there are several shared key qualities. Social enterprises are revenue-generating businesses but they have a focus on creating...
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Discharge Planning
Discharge planning services should be provided to support people leaving any type of institution, particularly, but not only after a long stay. This can include jail or other corrections facilities,...