Resources
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Responding to Youth Homelessness during COVID-19 and Beyond: Perspectives from the Youth-Serving Sector in Canada
The gaps and weaknesses in our social safety net have been laid bare when we see the impacts of the pandemic on young people at-risk of or experiencing homelessness and...
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Family and Natural Supports: A Framework to Enhance Young People’s Network of Support
This framework introduces and provides an overview of Family and Natural Supports (FNS), a preventive approach to addressing youth homelessness. FNS is a key component of a larger systemic shift...
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Youth Homelessness: Mental Health and Substance Use During COVID-19
Goal: The overall goal of this project is to rapidly synthesize real-world knowledge on promising mental health and substance use practices utilized by front-line providers serving young people who are...
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Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
This important submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child outlines how Canada can use the Duty to Assist model to accelerate its obligations under General Comment No. 21 to protect the rights...
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Transforming Our Response to Youth Homelessness Through Social Innovation
This report details five lessons that emerged from Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Demonstration Lab‘s multi-year, collaborative project prototyping and testing approaches to help prevent and facilitate sustainable exits from youth homelessness. Key learnings in the...