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Housing for Infectious TB Patients Who are Homeless: An Alternative Housing Program
C. Turner, M. Chambers
The resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) in the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s has been well documented. This problem was particularly severe in cities such as New York where the TB case rate nearly tripled over a 15-year period from the late...
4.6 The “First City to End Homelessness”: A Case Study of Medicine Hat’s Approach to System Planning in a Housing First Context
Alina Turner, Jaime Rogers
As a community gaining considerable attention for approaching the goal of ending homelessness, Medicine Hat provides an important case study through which to examine the evolution of system planning approaches following Housing First. This case...
Bringing it All Together: Integrating Services to Address Homelessness
Alina Turner, Diana Krecsy
This research paper from the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy outlines the benefits of integrating services to address homelessness. It discusses how Canada allocates funding towards various issues that correlate with homelessness,...
Housing Placement and Subsequent Days Homeless Among Formerly Homeless Adults with Mental Illness
Stephen Goldfinger, Russell Schutt, George Tolomiczenko, Larry Seidman, Walter Penk, Winson Turner, Brina B. Caplan
This study examines the influence of group or individual housing placement and consumer characteristics on the number of days subsequently homeless among formerly homeless mentally ill persons. OBJECTIVE: The study examined the influence of group or...
A comparison of three interventions for homeless youth evidencing substance use disorders: Results of a randomized clinical trial
Natasha Slesnick, Xiamei Guo, Brittany Brakenhoff, Denitza Bantchevska
Homeless adolescents and young adults are considered one of the most vulnerable populations worldwide with an estimated 100 million globally (UNESCO, 2007), and 500,000 to 2.8 million in the U.S. alone (Bucher, 2008; Cooper, 2006). A multitude of...
Completion
The goal of T4T is to prepare youth for future employment or to get them ready to enter a training program (post-secondary, apprenticeship etc.). The typical Train for Trades experience is 44 weeks, established, as discussed in Duration, to give...
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...
4.5 System Planning: A Case Study of the Calgary Homeless Foundation’s System Planning Framework
Katrina Milaney
Turner in 2014 described system planning within a Housing First context as “a method of organizing and delivering service, housing and programs that coordinates diverse resources to ensure that efforts align with homelessness-reduction goals” (p. 7...
Acknowledgements
The Youth Count Toolkit was generously funded and supported by the Laidlaw Foundation. The Youth Count Toolkit is a compilation of the experiences, insights and research of others. We would like to thank the communities that dedicated their time and...
Determining Community Readiness
How do you know your community is ready to undertake a large-scale initiative to end youth homelessness?  Given that ending youth homelessness is a collective impact endeavour, your group can benefit from a readiness assessment to identify deficits...
Systems Planning to Prevent and End Homelessness: Community Progress and Priorities Across Canada
The Systems Planning Collective is led by A Way Home Canada, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and Turner Strategies and is dedicated to helping communities and governments to prevent and end all forms of homelessness in Canada by supporting...