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Advisory Committee on Homelessness – Final Report
Advisory Committee on Homelessness
This report outlines the vulnerability of indigenous and rural populations to homelessness in Canada as well as recommends improvements in responses to prevent and end homelessness. According to this report, Indigenous Peoples are 10 times more...
3.5 Collaborative Approaches to Addressing Homelessness in Canada: Value and Challenge in the Community Advisory Board Model
Rebecca Schiff, Jeannette Waegemakers Schiff
Over the past decade, most major Canadian municipalities have been involved in the development of formalized systems-level collaborative approaches to addressing homelessness and housing issues. The implementation of such approaches has been...
Appendix A: Ontario’s Housing and Homelessness System
This appendix provides an overview of potential measures to advance solutions to end youth homelessness in Ontario and the role Service Managers play in the housing and homelessness system, which often intersects with other provincially funded and...
Urban Rights Forum with the Homeless: The Trajectory of a Struggle
Shahri Adhikar Manch: Begharon Ke Saath
The purpose of this document is to analyse the work and experience of Shahri Adhikar Manch: Begharon Ke Saath (SAM:BKS) towards creating an understanding of the work on homelessness in Delhi. SAM:BKS has been effective in carving out short-term and...
Acknowledgements
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) acknowledges with thanks the financial support of the Government of Canada’s Homelessness Partnering Strategy (Employment and Social Development Canada) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research...
Practical Strategies - First Steps
Inform Aboriginal Communities about the Count How? Why? Build relationships with Aboriginal services, Community Advisory Boards, and umbrella organizations Distribute information at Aboriginal cultural events and community/agency meetings...
Glossary
Aboriginal: The term "Aboriginal" is appropriate when referring to matters that affect First Nations (Indian) and Métis peoples. The word is most appropriately used as an adjective (e.g., Aboriginal person). Aboriginal CAB: The term “Aboriginal CAB...
Overview - Fostering Aboriginal Partnerships and Cultural Competency During your PiT Count
This resource supports Canadian communities to develop cultural competency and foster partnerships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities during the Homelessness Partnering Strategy’s Coordinated Point-Time Count.  Due to the significant...
Methodology: What to Ask
A PiT Count serves two functions: first, to measure the extent of homelessness. Second, to gather valuable data on those experiencing it. The PiT Count survey provides a unique opportunity to gather data on the demographics and service needs of...
After the Count
Once the PiT Count is complete, there are a number of opportunities to leverage the results to improve the local response to youth homelessness. One of the greatest benefits is the opportunity to start conversations - supported by accurate and...
Building the Planning Team
There are four main components of the planning team that you will want to consider: note, that you may have all of these roles or a combination thereof depending on local context and resources.  Figure 4: Planning Team Media Folder: Media Root  1....
The Consultation Process
Understandably, you will want to engage as many stakeholders as possible in your plan development. However, timelines, resources and levels of interest from stakeholders will dictate the scope of your consultation process. Carefully consider the ‘...
Engaging Youth
It is essential to meaningfully involve youth throughout the development of your plan. Create a youth engagement strategy at the outset of the process and engage youth from planning through implementation. As the real experts on their experiences,...
Considerations for Engagement with Indigenous People
It is important to acknowledge the experience of Indigenous people in Canada if we are to truly end youth homelessness, particularly in light of their consistent overrepresentation in vulnerable populations. Indigenous homelessness is notably...