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Evaluating Eviction Prevention: A Hub Solutions Look at the EPIC Program

Urban areas across Canada are experiencing increasingly unstable housing markets. This volatility directly impacts low-income individuals and families as they are faced with a lack of affordable housing options, rising...

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,...

Efforts of Homelessness Prevention

“We are becoming better at opening the back door of homelessness by assisting people to move out of this dire situation through providing them with necessary housing and supports” – A...

Sexual and Reproductive Health and LGBTQ2S Youth Experiencing Homelessness

LGBTQ2S (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transgender, queer,  questioning, two spirit) youth experiencing homelessness are in a particularly vulnerable state when it comes to managing their sexual and reproductive health. In...

THIS is a Randomized Controlled Trial

THIS is Housing First for Youth

Today’s topic is Housing First for Youth (spoiler alert: it’s not the same as Housing First) Innovation isn’t a word that typically comes to mind when thinking about youth homelessness...

Homelessness, reproductive health & pregnancy

Reproductive health deals with the reproductive processes, functions and system at all stages of life. Although reproductive health is a universal concern, certain groups face inequalities when accessing healthcare. Socioeconomic...

Looking Forward: Shifting Towards Homelessness Prevention

Over two hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin said, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. Since that time, most people have come to understand the importance of...

Hospital Emergency Care & Homelessness

Access to health care is a human right. In Canada, we enjoy a system of universal health insurance and yet, many Canadians are left without services other Canadians can access...

Beyond Borders: Learning from and contributing to a global movement for change

I’m heading to Helsinki Monday night. Why Helsinki? Though I do enjoy the commitment to all things death metal, uncomfortable group spa trips with colleagues and the extreme cold, I’m...