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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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Social Innovation in Preventing Homelessness
This European Journal of Homelessness article looks at the role of international engagement and social innovation in preventing youth homelessness in Wales and Canada.
Latest Blog
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Solutions: Outreach
Street outreach involves moving outside the walls of the agency to engage people experiencing homelessness who may be disconnected and alienated not only from mainstream services and supports, but from...
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Solutions: Transitions from Child Protection
Research consistently points to the high percentage of homeless youth who have had some involvement with child protection services, including foster care, group home placements or youth custodial centres. For...
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Ask the Hub – Can We End Youth Homelessness?
Do we really need to focus on youth homelessness? Seriously, shouldn’t we be putting our energies into addressing the complex needs of adults who have been homeless for years and...
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Solutions: Youth Homelessness
Many different terms are used to describe young people who are homeless, including including street youth, street kids, runaways, homeless youth, etc. Youth homelessness refers to young people between the...
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Ask the Hub – What’s new on the Homeless Hub?
Check this out! The Homeless Hub has had a make-over. We have spent the last several years getting ready for this, and this week we finally launch the new site....
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Research
Solutions: Discharge Planning – Health and Mental Health
Those who work in the homelessness sector are well aware that individuals are often discharged from hospitals and mental health facilities into homelessness. There are two main consequences to this....