by Bogdan Lihanceanu | May 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
We’re pleased to announce the launch of the second round of the Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Prevention Awards Program. Sponsored by Canada Life, the program is part of a broader suite of activities co-led by A Way Home Canada and the Canadian Observatory on...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | May 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
A lack of system coordination has long been a critique of the social service sector. Systems have been created without the end-user in mind, resulting in complicated pathways to care. To reduce these system barriers, coordinated systems, named “Coordinated Access” in...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | May 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
In Toronto, Ontario, the COVID-19 pandemic placed an already-strained homelessness shelter system under greater pressure. With shelters forced to decrease their capacity by 35%, a group of youth-focused service providers worked with the City of Toronto to move 70...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | May 5, 2022 | Announcements
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto has been care taken by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | May 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Written by Alliance Research Council member Marybeth Shinn (Organizational Development Professor, Department of Human and Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University) and Molly Richard (Doctoral Student, Department of Human and Organizational Development,...