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Child Protection Services and Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Findings of the 2019 National Youth Homelessness Survey in Canada
This study examines the differences between youth experiencing homelessness who have had contact with Child Protection Services (CPS) and those who have not. The findings highlight some ways that previous contact...
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Overview of Encampments Across Canada: A Right to Housing Approach
La version française suit la version anglaise. Homeless encampments constitute one of the most serious right-to-housing issues in Canada today. Mobilizing case studies, media scans, and literature and policy reviews,...
Latest Blog
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General
Youth Homelessness Prevention – What’s the Evidence?
Research on youth homelessness indicates the dire need for a preventative approach. Once homeless, young people often face exposure to violence, profound mental health distress, barriers to education and employment,...
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What would it take, and how do we get there? Youth Homelessness Prevention in Canada
Today we launch the results of a national consultation on youth homelessness prevention, What Would it Take? Youth Across Canada Speak Out on Youth Homelessness Prevention. Over the last six...
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Interventions
Mental Health Care for Homeless Youth: A Demand for Action and Equity
For many years, we have known that youth experiencing homelessness face significant mental health challenges. However, it wasn’t until the release of Without a Home: The National Youth Homelessness Survey...
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Can Art Make a Difference? Mobilizing the Arts to Prevent and End Youth Homelessness
For many years, I’ve been powerfully committed to the idea that the arts have the transformative and energetic power to create social change. Even a cursory knowledge of the history...
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Research
Too Little, Too Late: Reimagining Our Response to Youth Homelessness in Canada
Thank you to the Home Depot Canada Foundation who generously funded this study and report. With their support, we have a better collective understanding of youth homelessness in Canada. Today,...
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General
Can research help end homelessness in Canada?
One of the unfortunate contradictions of our time is that we have more knowledge and the ability to share our knowledge faster with greater numbers of people in the world...