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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...
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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...
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Working together to define what it means to end homelessness
Communities across Canada are promisingly moving towards eliminating homelessness. Provinces such as Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and Newfoundland and Labrador have put together strategies to end homelessness. Locally, Medicine Hat is...
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2017: The Year of Prevention
I had the privilege of spending some time over the holidays in sunny California. It was a fantastic trip for so many reasons, but one conversation I had with a...
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Preventing homelessness by preventing eviction
Though few evictions end in homelessness, it is clear that many episodes of homelessness begin with eviction. Preventing eviction is key to preventing homelessness – but how can services reach tenants facing...
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Preventing Youth Homelessness: The Upstream Project
The Upstream Project is a school-based program focused on youth homelessness prevention. Why schools? Because virtually every young person who becomes homeless was in school at one point, and very...
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Let’s Talk Housing & Prevention
There is good news in Canada. The federal government has recently launched a welcome consultation process to inform Canada’s first National Housing Strategy. Among the list of potential outcomes, the...
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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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Vancouver’s 2016 Homeless Count
This week’s infographic comes to us from the City of Vancouver, and details summary findings from the 2016 Homeless Count, actions to date on housing and shelters, and a snapshot...
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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...