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Duty to Assist As a Way to Accelerate Canada’s Obligations Under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and General Comment 21 on Children in Street Situations
For the past year we have been working on Duty to Assist, exploring the Welsh model and co-designing a prototype in Hamilton, ON, to explore how it could be adapted...
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Want to Get the Best Possible Outcomes for Young People and Their Families? Make the Shift to Prevention!
• 78% of youth who have participated in programming have achieved housing stability. • 96% of youth involved in the program are employed or self-employed and/or have returned to school....
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Belonging is Greater than Isolation: The Toronto FNS Program
Today, I would like to showcase the Toronto Family and Natural Supports (FNS) Program, another exciting program developed under the umbrella of the Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Demonstration Lab...
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Untangling the Connection: Youth Homelessness and Failed Encounters with the Healthcare System
In Canada, between 35,000–40,000 young people experience homelessness each year – that’s approximately 6,000-7,000 youth on any given night. Public systems (e.g., healthcare, child welfare, criminal justice) contribute to whether a...
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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...
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Free 2 Be in Action! How Housing First for Youth is Supporting Youth Transitioning from Care in Toronto
The Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Demonstration Lab (MtS DEMS), co-led by A Way Home Canada and the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, is supporting our community partners in 12 sites...
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How an Employment Program for Homeless Adults Both Challenged and Confirmed My Biases
In this bi-weekly blog series, I explore recent research on homelessness, and what it means for the provision of services to prevent or end homelessness. Read the first blog here....
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Education for Young People Experiencing Homelessness and Housing Precarity
Whether you’re in school now, or have been finished for a while, you can imagine what a typical day school day is like – rushing to class, shifting between engagement...
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Can Big Data Lead to Better Eviction Prevention?
In this bi-weekly blog series, Abe Oudshoorn explores recent research on homelessness, and what it means for the provision of services to prevent or end homelessness. Follow the whole series! I’ve...
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Fighting Homelessness or Fighting the Homeless? A Duty to Assist Alternative
On November 7th, the Quebec Mayor Régis Labeaume announced that imprisonment for people experiencing homelessness would no longer be a consequence of unpaid tickets and that offences such as sleeping...