by Cedar Michel | Jan 14, 2025 | General
Collecting data on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) is increasingly common in the homeless sector: during program intakes, on employment equity surveys, and as part of point-in-time (PiT) homeless counts, to name a few examples. This data is critical,...
by Cedar Michel | Dec 11, 2024 | Prevention Matters!
October is Women’s History Month in Canada, and to mark it this year, the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness organized an online discussion about the Alternative Builds program. Alternative Builds is an ongoing culturally based project that is empowering Indigenous...
by Cedar Michel | Oct 23, 2024 | General
Although Indigenous Peoples across Canada experience housing need at a disproportionate rate, what this means specifically varies from community to community. Recently, the Federal Housing Advocate, Marie-Josée Houle, and the Métis Nation—Saskatchewan (MNS)...
by Cedar Michel | Sep 16, 2024 | General
Homelessness is a pervasive social issue affecting millions of people worldwide. Amidst the statistics and policy debates, photographs serve as powerful tools for storytelling, humanizing those often marginalized and forgotten. This is the third blog in our Media...
by Cedar Michel | Aug 28, 2024 | Interventions
The Family and Natural Supports (FNS) intervention aims to prevent youth homelessness. As part of the Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab, which sought to test the efficacy of this youth homelessness prevention program, we had the unique...
