Latest Contributions
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Systems Prevention
In this report we tackle the critical issue of systems prevention – a key component of any comprehensive approach to youth homelessness prevention. This report outlines three primary domains of...
- Report
Preventing Youth Homelessness: An International Review of Evidence
Over the summer of 2018, the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and A Way Home Canada conducted an international scan of policies and practices that are contributing to youth homelessness prevention....
Latest Blog
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Housing First for Youth (HF4Y): A Way Home’s Collaborative Vision
In 2013 the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness in collaboration with the Hamilton Street Youth Planning Collaborative and the National Learning Community on Youth Homelessness created a framework for adapting Housing...
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Upstream Prevention
I recently heard a young person with lived experience of homelessness offering recommendations to A Way Home America and senior policy makers. He said that funding more services and supports...
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A Way Home 2016: Part Two
In an earlier blog post I shared with you an overview of everything that the A Way Home Canada coalition has accomplished to date and a few highlights of what...
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Youth Rights! Right Now!
Last summer I was fortunate to meet Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, at a conference concerning the legal needs of street youth. I hung on to...
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Helping Communities Go Further Faster: Youth Homelessness Community Planning Toolkit
I am pleased to announce the launch of a free and open-source online resource to support communities and planners in their quests to develop and implement comprehensive plans to prevent...
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A Way Home Canada: Six Months In
As I look out my office window at the trees and flowers in bloom, I’m reminded that it has only been six months since we launched A Way Home with...