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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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