A number of studies have emphasized the over-representation of Aboriginal people in the urban homeless population. Nevertheless there are few studies focusing on Aboriginal homeless people, and most of those have addressed large southern cities. The characteristics of Aboriginal homeless individuals in small northern communities and the network of services and policy responses that these communities can offer may be quite different from those in larger cities. This report is a collaborative research project between the Flin Flon Aboriginal Friendship Centre and the University of Winnipeg, and was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through the National Association of Friendship Centre’s Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network. It attempts to obtain information about the characteristics and experiences of the homeless population in Flin Flon with the goal of identifying possible policy responses to their needs.
