Re-thinking “The New Normal” for Youth Transitioning out of the Child Welfare System – Early Intervention to Prevent Youth Homelessness from Making the Shift (MtS) explores the “pipeline” from child welfare into homelessness and how we can collectively re-think a ‘new normal’ for child protection in order to better prevent and end youth homelessness.
Also included is an “In Conversation Webinar Series” where PhD Social Work and MtS Scholar with Lived Experience, Senior Researcher and Project Manager at the Child Welfare League of Canada and Researcher with the Centre for Research on Children and Families at McGill University, sat down for a dialogue on the “pipeline” from child welfare to homelessness with Dr. Michael Ungar, Founder and Director of the Resilience Research Centre and Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience, discuss the damaging impact of the age cut-offs from support mandated by provincial or territorial legislation, regardless of whether the young person is ready for independent life or not.