Resource Sites and References
National Resource Sites
- At Home/Chez Soi is a research demonstration investigating mental health and homelessness in five Canadian cities: Moncton, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Housing First approach
- Research, resource, and information clearinghouse on homelessness issues in Canada
Homeless Individuals and Families Information System
- Federal initiative
- Website created by and for the street community in Canada
Homelessness Partnering Strategy
- Federal initiative
-Individual's website
Parliamentary Research Branch Homelessness Report
- Federal initiative
- National charity dedicated to finding solutions to end homelessness
- Current news, events, and research on homelessness and housing issues in Canada
International Resource Sites
- Stories of Homeless people
References: Articles, presentations and reports
Wellesley Institute Precarious Housing in Canada: Summer 2010
International collaboration to re-patriate and re-integrate homeless unemployed
Homeless Poles living on barbecued rats and alcoholic handwash
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Destined for the Dole
A report focusing on giving young people skills, confidence and positive role models in order to stop disadvantaged young people becoming disadvantaged adults.
The report shows that “more that 76% of young people polled said that finding a good job is their main priority for the future and that 63% felt that having more volunteering opportunities in their local area would give them the skills they needed to find a job.”
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Changing Poverty Rates
A report by the CD Howe Institute claims the dramatic drop in the poverty rate among single-parent families over the past decade proves that the “tough love” policies imposed on welfare recipients by the governments of Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia in the mid-1990s worked. “Much of the credit lies with reform to social assistance programs”.
Armine Yalnizyan of the Canadian Centre of Policy Alternatives counters that the three principal causes of the drop in the lone-parent poverty rate were strong economic growth, the introduction of the National Child Benefit and a buoyant labour market.
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The Health of First Nations Living Off-Reserve, Inuit, and Metis Adults in Canada
Rochelle Garner, Gisèle Carrière, Claudia Sanmartin and the
Longitudinal Health and Administrative Data Research Team: Statistics Canada.
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Urban Hidden Homelessness and Reserve Housing
Presentation by Evelyn Peters (University of Saskatchewan) and Vince Robillard (PA Grand Council Urban Services) found at Slideshare.
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Housing Homeless Families in Pasadena
City of Pasadena 1000 Homes presentation found at Slideshare
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Helping the Homeless
Helping the Homeless: Christian Jarrett examines psychology’s response to a disturbing social problem in the UK journal The Psychologist
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