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Strength in Numbers: The 2023-2024 ACWS Report on Domestic Violence Shelter Impact in Alberta

 April 10, 2025

Released April 2025 this report reveals a continued rise in demand for shelter services and the urgent need for sustained support to keep up with the growing complexity of survivors’ needs.

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An Introduction to Decolonizing Indigenous Research

 March 11, 2025

A Way Home Canada, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness & Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab

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Yes, It Works: How Housing First for Youth Transforms Lives (Prevention Matters Episode 9)

 March 11, 2025

The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and their partners, A Way Home Canada and Making the Shift, unpack evidence-based* insights on Housing First for Youth, its benefits and what our research has taught us about what it takes to prevent youth homelessness.

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Alberta.ca Open Data Emergency Shelters Daily Occupancy Updated March 2025

 March 9, 2025

This collection of datasets provided by Seniors, Community and Social Services (SCSS)

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PolicyWise Creating a Roadmap to Prevent Youth Homelessness February 2025

 February 28, 2025

This roadmap seeks to create information that brings light to effective prevention strategies through research and evaluation

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Online Training Decolonizing, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (Homeless Learning Hub)

 January 9, 2025

Free, on-demand training designed to support anyone working in the homeless-serving sector who is committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all.

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Alberta Set to Change How Social Agencies Serving the Homeless are Funded in 2025

 December 23, 2024

The Alberta Government announced upcoming changes to how services for Alberta's homeless population will be funded and will now provide funding directly to front-line agencies versus distributed through community-based organizations.

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Alberta.ca Ensuring Wraparound Services

 October 25, 2024

Minister of Health Adriana LaGrange and Minister of Seniors, Community and Social Services Jason Nixon issued the following update on continuing care and the health refocusing work originally announced in November 2023: “

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Toolkit Mobilizing on the Right to Housing for Women, Two-Spirit, & Gender-Diverse People

 October 22, 2024

If you or your community has been impacted by the gendered housing crisis, your voice is needed! Check out the toolkit to learn how you can get involved in this historic process.

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