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John Ecker, Tim Aubry
Abstract The current longitudinal study used mixed methods to examine the relationship of housing and neighborhood characteristics and community integration among a population of homeless and vulnerably housed individuals. Participants were...
John Ecker, PhD, Tim Aubry, John Sylvestre
This article examines entries into homelessness among adults who identify as LGBTQ2S (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, two-spirit). Twenty LGBTQ2S adults who were currently or formerly homeless participated in one qualitative interview. ...
Fran Klodawsky, Tim Aubry, Rebecca Nemiroff, Cristina Bonetta, Alette Willis
This chapter demonstrates some of the benefits of conducting carefully constructed, systematic studies of what happens to homeless people over time by presenting findings from a longitudinal study conducted in Ottawa. A sample of 412 people...
Sophie Liljedahl, Jennifer Rae, Tim Aubry, Fran Klodawsky
Homeless youth leave school for a variety of reasons, such as lack of family support, frequent moves between homes and schools, and significant life stress. Without a basic education, youth are at risk of limited employment opportunities and poverty...
Tim Aubry, Stephanie Yamin, Jonathan Jetté, Danielle Nolin, John Sylvestre
This report presents the results of the second implementation evaluation of the At Home/Chez Soi project in Moncton completed from March to July 2012. The Moncton site is one of five projects initiated across Canada and funded by the Mental Health...
Sam Tsemberis, Eric Macnaughton, Whitney Howard, Tim Aubry, John Ecker
BACKGROUND This report is prepared for BC Housing as part of the evaluation of the Vulnerability Assessment Tool (VAT). The VAT was created by the Downtown Emergency Service Centre in Seattle, Washington, to objectively determine the vulnerability...
Anita Palepu, Anne Gadermann, Anita M. Hubley, Susan Farrell, Evie Gogosis, Tim Aubry, Stephen W Hwang
We examined the prevalence of substance use disorders among homeless and vulnerably housed persons in three Canadian cities and its association with unmet health care needs and access to addiction treatment using baseline data from the Health and...
John Sylvestre, Nick Kerman, Alexia Polio, Catherine M. Lee, Tim Aubry
<p>Compared to the wealth of research on single homeless adults, there is little known about homeless families. This paper describes a study of 75 homeless families in Ottawa, Ontario, conducted in 2012-2013. This sample of homeless families...
Alexia Polillo, Nick Kerman, John Sylvestre, Catherine M. Lee, Tim Aubry
This journal explores the challenges faced by foreign-born families experiencing homelessness in Canada. The purpose of this paper is to examine the health of foreign-born families staying in the emergency shelter system in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,...
Timothy E. Chung, Agnes Gozdzik, Luis I. Palma Lazgare, Matthew J. To, Tim Aubry, James Frankish, Stephen W. Hwang, Vicky Stergiopoulos
Objective This study compares the effect of Housing First on older (≥50 years old) and younger (18–49 years old) homeless adults with mental illness participating in At Home/Chez Soi, a 24-month multisite randomized controlled trial of Housing First...
Carol E. Adair, David L. Streiner, Ryan Barnhart, Brianna Kopp, Scott Veldhuizen, Michelle Patterson, Tim Aubry, Jennifer Lavoie, Jitender Sareen, Stefanie Renee LeBlanc, Paula Goering
Purpose Housing First (HF) has been shown to improve housing stability, on average, for formerly homeless adults with mental illness. However, little is known about patterns of change and characteristics that predict different outcome trajectories...
Geoffrey Nelson, Ana Stefancic, Jennifer Rae, Greg Townley, Sam Tsemberis, Eric Macnaughton, Tim Aubry, Jino Distasio, Roch Hurtubise, Michelle Patterson, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Myra Piat, Paula Goering
This research sought to determine whether the implementation of Housing First in a large-scale, multi-site Canadian project for homeless participants with mental illness shows high fidelity to the Pathways Housing First model, and what factors help...
Geoffrey Nelson, Rachel Caplan, Timothy MacLeod, Eric Macnaughton, Rebecca Cherner, Tim Aubry, Christian Methot, Eric Latimer, Myra Piat, Erin Plenert, Scott McCullough, Sarah Zell, Michelle Patterson, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Paula Goering
Abstract This research examined the sustainability of Canada's At Home/Chez Soi Housing First (HF) programs for homeless persons with mental illness 2 years after the end of the demonstration phase of a large (more than 2000 participants enrolled),...