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Reconnect Program Guide: An Early Intervention Approach to Preventing Youth Homelessness

 May 2, 2024

This Reconnect Program Guide outlines the core programmatic elements of YR based on lessons learned from practitioners and program evaluations.

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Family and Natural Supports: A Framework to Enhance Young People's Network of Support (Homelessness)

 May 1, 2024

A preventive approach to addressing youth homelessness. FNS is a key component of a larger systemic shift in responses to homelessness, away from emergency service provision and instead toward the prevention of youth homelessness.

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Trauma-Informed Care Toolkit for Homelessness Youth Service Providers

 May 1, 2024

Trauma-informed programs can help mitigate adverse outcomes for youth and young adults. All systems that serve youth who have experienced homelessness must understand the basic principles of trauma to serve youth appropriately.

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Workplace Trauma Experienced by Homeless Sector Service Providers

 April 3, 2024

The impact of workplace traumas and stressors among service providers working with people experiencing homelessness in Canada

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Findings - Child Protection Services and Youth Experiencing Homelessness

 October 4, 2023

In this paper from Elsevier Children and Youth Services Review Volume 153, October 2023, 107088, they examine the extent to which youth accessing homelessness services with a history of involvement with CPS differ from their peers who have not interacted with CP

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A Portrait of Homelessness Amongst Gender-Diverse People in Canada

 June 13, 2023

Research Brief and Literature Review commissioned by the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate 2023

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Blueprint for Transformation: the 2023 Report of the National Advisory Council on Poverty

 June 12, 2023

The National Advisory Council on Poverty dedicates their 2023 progress report to all those people who selflessly shared their stories of success and struggle, with the hope that their expertise will enable better systems for everyone

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Endaamnaan: Homes for All Nations: A First Nations Homelessness Literature Review

 June 12, 2022

This literature review identifies various gaps in research, influencing the need for First Nations-specific recommendations to address homelessness

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