Canada
In Canada, three levels of government (municipal, provincial, federal) provide funding to Housing First programmes.
The Canadian Housing First Network includes representation from 10 provinces and made up representatives from HF programme management, people with lived experience in HF, and National Alliance to End Homelessness.
Housing First was administratively supported (½ per week) from the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health located in Toronto. The CHFN is in the process of moving this support to another community agency that has a large HF programme.
The CHFN is currently unfunded and coordinated by two retired professors, but they intend to apply for government funding once the federal election is over. They do projects mostly related to fidelity and research, develop evidence briefs, and deliver webinars, and they are now looking to develop HF training and technical support for programmes across the country.
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Women and Homelessness in Canada – A brief r…
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Find out more here“Housing First” for Homeless Youth Wit…
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Find out more hereThe At Home / Chez Soi Project
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Find out more hereWhat Happens After the Demonstration Phase?: The S…
This research examined the sustainability of Canada’s At Home/Chez Soi Housing First (HF) programmes for homeless persons with mental illness 2 years after the end of the demonstration phase…
Find out more hereThe Roadmap for the Prevention of Youth Homelessne…
The Roadmap for the Prevention of Youth Homelessness helps to fill this gap in our knowledge. It is designed to help service providers, policy makers, communities, advocates, and researchers…
Find out more hereWomen and homelessness – Churchill Fellowshi…
This webinar is a discussion exploring how the approaches and models in Canada, Finland and Sweden in preventing and tackling women’s homelessness. Watch the recording here.
Find out more hereThe Governance of Inclusive Growth – An Over…
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Find out more hereMoving Evidence Into Policy: The Story of the At H…
This paper by Eric Macnaughton, Geoffrey Nelson, Paula Goering,and Myra Piat presents a study that aimed to understand the sustainability of the At Home/Chez Soi (AHCS) project with respect…
Find out more hereLearning from Youth with Lived Experience to Reali…
While schools can be a powerful site of homelessness prevention, they are also a potential site of harm for many young people, particularly youth with disabilities and mental health…
Find out more hereIndividual, Housing, and Neighbourhood Predictors …
The current longitudinal study evaluated the individual, housing, and neighborhood characteristics predictive of feeling psychologically integrated within one’s neighbourhood among a population of homeless and vulnerably housed individuals. Participants…
Find out more hereHousing First in Canada: Supporting Communities to…
In March 2013, there was a five-year renewal by the Government of Canada of the Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS). This renewal included a new focus on the Housing First…
Find out more hereHomeless Find a Champion in Canada’s Medicin…
In this article, the city of Medicine Hat, Alberta, is spotlighted as a pioneering model of the Housing First approach to homelessness. Instead of requiring individuals to meet conditions…
Find out more hereFindings from A Fidelity Assessment of a Housing F…
This paper presents the findings of a second fidelity assessment of a Housing First programme in a small Canadian city. The evaluation included two components: a) a fidelity assessment…
Find out more hereCanadian Housing First Toolkit: The At Home/Chez S…
This toolkit is based on the experience of the Canadian At Home/Chez Soi project that used the Pathways to Housing model of Housing First for homeless people with mental…
Find out more hereAnnouncing the Launch of Making the Shift!
The Making the Shift initiative, launched in April 2017 by A Way Home Canada and the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, aims to transform how youth homelessness is addressed in…
Find out more hereA Randomised Trial Examining Housing First in Cong…
Abstract Objective No previous experimental trials have investigated Housing First (HF) in both scattered site (SHF) and congregate (CHF) formats. We hypothesised that CHF and SHF would be associated…
Find out more hereA New Direction: A Framework for Homelessness Prev…
Preventing homelessness makes as much sense as preventing disease or accidents, yet Canada lacks a national approach to do so. A New Direction: A Framework for Homelessness Prevention sets…
Find out more hereOur Partners in Canada
A Way Home Canada
A Way Home Canada is a national coalition dedicated to preventing and ending youth homelessness in Canada. They lead a Collective Impact movement that brings together all levels of government, service providers, researchers, advocates, and—critically—youth with lived experience. Their work advances evidence-based policies, programs, and practices that shift the response from managing homelessness to preventing it, ensuring that every young person has the support and opportunities to thrive. A Way Home Canada has inspired communities and countries around the world to adopt the A Way Home brand as a way to participate in a growing international movement for change. Their main areas of work are youth homelessness prevention, systems change and policy advocacy, training and capacity building.
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