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0. Introduction
- Homelessness: What’s in a Word?
1. Housing
2. Health
3. Children & Youth
4. Women
5. Immigrants & Refugees
6. Aboriginal People
7. Justice
8. Research
9. Human Rights
- 9.1 Burned by the System, Burned at the Stake: Poor, Homeless and Marginalized Women Speak Out

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Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada
5. Immigrants & Refugees

5. Immigrants & Refugees

Publication Date:

2009

Location:

Canada

4.5 Pan-Territorial Report: A Study of Women's Homelessness North of 60° 5.1 Living on the Ragged Edges: Latin Americans and Muslims and the Experience of Homelessness in Toronto

0. Introduction

Homelessness: What’s in a Word?

1. Housing

1.1 Transitional Housing Models in Canada: Options and Outcomes 1.2 Shelters for the Homeless: Learning from Research 1.3 One in Five…Housing as a Factor in the Admission of Children to Care 1.4. The Toronto Shelter Zoning By-law: Municipal Limits in Addressing Homelessness 1.5 Toronto's Streets to Homes Program

2. Health

2.1 The Relationship between Homelessness & Health: An Overview of Research in Canada 2.2 The Health of Toronto’s Homeless Population 2.3 Mental Health, Mental Illness, & Homelessness in Canada 2.4 The Health of Street Youth in Canada: A Review of the Literature 2.5 Understanding the Health, Housing; Social Inclusion of Formerly Homeless Older Adults 2.6 Traumatic Brain Injury in the Homeless Population: A Toronto Study 2.7 Primary Health Care for Homeless Persons: Evaluating the Options Using a Policy Analysis Approach

3. Children & Youth

3.1 Homeless Youth: The Need to Link Research & Policy 3.2 Whose Safety Counts? Street Youth, Social Exclusion, Criminal Victimization 3.3 Social Housing Policy for Homeless Canadian Youth 3.4 Street Survival: A Gendered Analysis of Youth Homelessness in Toronto 3.5 Social Stigma and Homeless Youth 3.6 How Young People Get off the Street: Exploring Paths Processes 3.7 The Peel Youth Village: Designing Transitional Housing for Homeless Suburban Youth 3.8 The "hand-to-mouth" existence of homeless youths in Toronto

4. Women

4.1 Supporting Young Homeless Mothers Who Have Lost Child Custody 4.2 Better Off in a Shelter? A Year of Homelessness Housing among Status Immigrant, Non-Status Migrant, Canadian-Born Families 4.3 Making the invisible visible: Canadian women, homelessness and health outside the "big city"4.4. Rights to the City: Thinking Social Justice for Chronically Homeless Women 4.5 Pan-Territorial Report: A Study of Women's Homelessness North of 60°

5. Immigrants & Refugees

5.1 Living on the Ragged Edges: Latin Americans and Muslims and the Experience of Homelessness in Toronto 5.3 At Risk in Canada’s Outer Suburbs: A Pilot Study of Immigrants and Homelessness in York Region Taking Care of Their Own? Or Falling Between the Cracks? Absolute Relative Homelessness Among Immigrants, Refugees, Refugee Claimants in Vancouver

6. Aboriginal People

6.1 Housing for Aboriginal Children Youth: The Need for a Holistic Approach 6.2 Homeless Aboriginal Men the Effects of Intergenerational Trauma 6.3 Hidden Homelessness among Aboriginal Peoples in Prairie Cities

7. Justice

7.1 A Revolving Door? Homeless People the Justice System in Toronto 7.2 More Sinned Against than Sinning? Homeless People as Victims of Crime Harassment 7.3 Homelessness, Incarceration, the Challenge of Effective Discharge Planning: A Canadian Case

8. Research

8.1 A Longitudinal Approach to Research on Homelessness 8.2 Pathways into Homelessness: Testing the Heterogeneity Hypothesis 8.3 Towards a Strategy for Counting the Homeless 8.4 Ethics in Research with Homeless Women

9. Human Rights

9.1 Burned by the System, Burned at the Stake: Poor, Homeless and Marginalized Women Speak Out

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