Resources
- Lesson Plans
Understanding Homelessness Through Drama
Division: Junior, Intermediate Subject: Drama Includes a full unit plan (3 part lesson plans) Think, Pair, Share Activities Checkbricks for Assessments As/For Learning Integration of multimedia This Unit takes students...
- Fact Sheet
How can someone with no income survive?
Panhandling is one obvious source of income. In some communities, income opportunities such as ‘binning‘ (collecting cans or bottles) is integrated into the city’s waste management planning. In 2012, Vancouver introduced clear...
- Fact Sheet
How Can We Improve Healthcare Access for the Homeless?
A stand-out study in Canada – although the data is getting slightly dated now – is from Street Health in Toronto, entitled “Access to Primary Health Care Among Homeless Adults in...
- Report
Do Homeless Women Experience Violence?
The answer to the question above is a resounding yes. Women on the street face higher rates of violence than women who are housed. Aboriginal women in particular are over represented...
- Fact Sheet
What are 5 ways to End Homelessness?
This post is based on answers from Tim Richter from the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (CAEH) in a TweetChat on the State of Homelessness in Canada: 2013 report. But...