Resources
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Shifting to a Collaborative, Prevention-Focused Response in a Large Urban Area
This research sought to understand how living in Toronto’s emergency shelter system during the pandemic has impacted youth experiencing homelessness, as well as investigate how the sector and municipality could...
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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 Reconnect Program Guide
Youth Reconnect (YR) is a community-based early intervention program that is designed to help young people (ages 13–24) who are at risk of or in the early stages of homelessness....
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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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Guiding Youth Home: A Design-Based Approach to Preventing and Ending Youth Homelessness
This document is part policy provocation and part inspiration. It’s intended for anyone who is interested in learning more about Duty to Assist—an innovative, rights-based approach to homelessness prevention pioneered...