by Emma | Mar 31, 2025 | Prevention Matters!
The Prevention Matters! series, hosted by the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, brings brilliant minds together to explore evidence-based strategies designed to prevent homelessness before it starts. During the ninth episode of the series, Yes, It Works: How...
by Emma | Mar 14, 2025 | Research
Precarity among college and university students is so widespread that it is often talked about as a rite of passage. But post-secondary homelessness and housing insecurity come with a real human cost—they should not be normalized as just part of the student...
by Emma | Nov 20, 2024 | Prevention Matters!
Lawyers may not be the first professionals who come to mind when we think of preventing and ending youth homelessness, but for young people at risk of or experiencing homelessness timely legal support can be life-changing. Prevention Matters! session 7 sheds light on...
by Emma | Nov 12, 2024 | General
The Memengwaa program developed by Shawenim Abinoojii, in Winnipeg, MB, was recently selected as one of the winners of the fourth annual Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Prevention Awards. We had a conversation with Victoria Fisher, Executive Director of Shawenim...
by Emma | Nov 12, 2024 | Interventions
The OneRoof program developed by Kingston HomeBase, in Kingston, ON, was recently selected as one of the winners of the fourth annual Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Prevention Awards. We spoke with Gennie Veryard, the supervisor of the OneRoof initiative, to...
