by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Mar 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
After years of research, we are excited to finally share with you the Walk the Talk toolkit – a toolkit for transforming services and systems in mental health! This toolkit is suitable for organisations that provide a variety of services but also have...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 27, 2022 | General
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness” – Desmond Tutu, South African Human Rights Activist “The past of slavery is experienced daily as if it were happening again….” – Toni Morrison, Beloved In commemorating Black...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 23, 2022 | General
Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab’s demonstration projects (MtS DEMS) have been working to identify, develop, test, evaluate, and mobilize innovations in policy and practice that support the prevention and facilitation of sustainable exits from...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
The COVID-19 pandemic coupled with the destruction of encampments has brought inadequate shelter services to the forefront of public conversation. During the pandemic, I worked in a gender-specific low barrier drop-in program in Hamilton, Ontario. I watched the news...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 9, 2022 | Research
I have always viewed Black History Month as both a time to take stock of Black communities’ collective struggles for visibility as well as to celebrate their contributions to the advancement of Canada. However, the prevalence of homelessness among Black youth suggests...