by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Jun 8, 2015
Children in care (CIC) are at a heightened risk of engaging in general antisocial behaviour and serious and violent offending. This observation has been explained in relation to cumulative risk, whereby children and youth in foster care are more likely to be exposed...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | May 13, 2015
This paper briefly reviews studies comparing the effectiveness of various Housing First programs to Continuum of Care programs for outcomes related to housing retention, substance use, and mental health. A literature search was completed entering the search term...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 30, 2015
The Outcomes Star is a comprehensive tool for measuring the outcomes of work with homeless people. We recommend its use with homeless people. It was developed by Triangle Consulting, originally for St Mungo’s, and subsequently widely tested and revised for the London...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 16, 2015
This report identifies youth released from a Juvenile Rehabilitation (JR) institution or community residential facility who experienced homelessness in a 12-month follow-up period and compares them to youth released from JR facilities who did not have an identified...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 9, 2015
OBJECTIVE: Growing recognition of the problem of household food insecurity in Canada has meant public health practitioners are looking for effective ways to ameliorate this problem in their communities. Community gardens, community kitchens, and food box programs can...
