Houselessness & Poverty
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Self-Advocacy Toolkit for Youth (OCYA)
Learn how to speak up, get support and understand your rights with OCYA's video series on YouTube.
Experiencing Homelessness for Families with Disabled Children (ALIGN)
Homelessness significantly worsens the challenges faced by families with disabled children, increasing stress, disrupting routines, and limiting access to essential resources and support systems. Children with disabilities are more vulnerable to the negative impacts of homelessness, potentially facing long-term consequences for their physical and mental health, education, and overall development.
Peer Navigation: A Youth-led Roadmap to Success
When young people experience homelessness, thrive as they live with HIV or brave discrimination on the basis of sexuality or identity, they have invaluable knowledge of how to best navigate these challenges.
Prevention Matters! Watch Storying Truths of Indigenous Homelessness (COH)
Indigenous homelessness (or what is increasingly being referred to as houselessness) is a widespread crisis across Canada. While individual experiences may vary, there is a common thread underlying its causes.
Free Training: Homelessness Prevention: Advancing a Multi-Systems Approach
Visit the Homelessness Learning Hub now and take the FREE, self-paced training to learn how we can create meaningful, lasting change for individuals, systems, and communities.
Shared Spaces, Shared Futures: Enhancing Belonging Through Intergenerational Co-Housing
What if we brought generations together to solve two big problems at once?
Results Are In! The Family and Natural Supports Program Improves Youth Well-Being and Prevents Homelessness (homeless learning hub)
This infographic provides aa snapshot of how the Family and Natural Supports (FNS) program supports youth and their families, including those they consider significant in their lives—such as chosen family, Elders, coaches, and teachers—to foster stronger relationships, resolve conflicts, and help prevent youth homelessness.
Report: Indigenous Shelter Diversion and Eviction Prevention May 2025 (Canadian Observatory on Homelessness)
Through an environmental scan of literature and existing programs, this report adopts a decolonizing lens to explore Indigenous perspectives on prevention, including diversion from shelters and preventing eviction.
Wherever Precariously Homed People Are, Their Belongings are at Risk (homeless hub)
This research addresses a gap in the scholarship of homelessness governance, shining a light on the people, practices, and experiences of regulation as it relates to precariously homed people’s belongings.
