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Webinar: Housing First for Youth
Housing First for Youth (HF4Y) is a rights-based intervention for young people (aged 13-24) who experience homelessness, or who are at risk. It is designed to address the needs of...
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Webinar: 5 Program Models to Prevent Youth Homelessness in Canada
In recent years, communities have been shifting their response to youth homelessness from a reliance on emergency services to a focus on preventing young people from experiencing homelessness altogether. But...
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Announcements
Announcing the 2024 Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Prevention Awards: Celebrating Innovative Solutions and Promising Practices
I’m excited to share that we are launching the fourth round of the Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Prevention Awards Program. Presented by Canada Life, the Awards are part of...
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Announcing the 3rd Annual Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Prevention Awards, Sponsored by Canada Life
We’re pleased to announce the launch of the third round of the Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Prevention Awards Program. Presented by Canada Life, the program is part of a...
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Announcing the 2nd Annual Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Prevention Awards, Sponsored by Canada Life
We’re pleased to announce the launch of the second round of the Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Prevention Awards Program. Sponsored by Canada Life, the program is part of a...
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General
Youth Reconnect: Building School-Based Early Intervention Capacity
Announcing New Partnerships for Youth Reconnect We’re pleased to announce a new partnership to build out our collective capacity to provide training and technical assistance, community of practice, and practical...
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Preventing Youth Homelessness in Canada During the Pandemic and Beyond
On March 30, 2021, A Way Home Canada, the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and our co-led Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab hosted a National Roundtable on Youth...
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Experiments in Paradigm Shifting: How Service Design Can Inform the Duty to Assist Policy
The desire to address inequalities and exclusionary practices within homelessness policy led Wales to become the first country to attempt to fully reorient homelessness services toward prevention and to make preventive services universally...