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Voice of Experience: Engaging People with Lived Experience of Poverty in Consultations
Bee Lee Soh
John Stapleton
In 2017, anti-poverty activist Bee Lee Soh and Metcalf Innovation Fellow John Stapleton were selected, from among 400 nominations, to participate on the federal government’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Poverty. The committee provided input and helped inform Canada’s first-ever National Poverty Reduction Strategy. Soh and Stapleton...
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North America
Nothing About Us Without Us: Seven Principles For Leadership and Inclusion of People With Lived Experience of Homelessness
Including individuals with lived experience in the decision-making process, research, and all other aspects of homelessness work is a vital part of finding viable and sustainable pathways to housing. Principles in this paper point to the importance of first voice inclusion in all endeavors to end homelessness. This document provides...
Region:
Europe
Engagement Toolkit: People with Lived Experience in BC's Capital Region
Lkwungen Songhees
Wyomilth Esquimalt
WSÁNEĆ Saanich
Peoples of the Coast
Straits Salish
The booklet sets out tools and techniques that have been well received or recommended by people who are experiencing or have experienced homelessness and have proven to be effective for the individuals and organizations that are undertaking various types of engagement. This booklet is meant to be read alongside the Engagement Framework ...
Region:
Europe
Where Am I Going to Go? Intersectional Approaches to Ending LGBTQ2S Youth Homelessness in Canada & the U.S.
This book is an effort to address LGBTQ2S (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and two-spirit) youth homelessness in both Canada & the U.S. It includes an examination of the identity-related structural barriers LGBTQ2S youth experiencing homelessness face while accessing adequate services and transitioning out of...
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North America
Nothing About Us Without Us: Seven Principles for Leadership and Inclusion of People with Lived Experience of Homelessness
Lived Experience Advisory Council
During the 2014 Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness conference in Vancouver, a group of individuals came together with a common goal: to ensure that individuals with lived experience received equitable representation from service providers, researchers, policy makers, and others, so that they can better understand and tackle the...
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North America
Homeless People’s Perceptions of Welcomeness and Unwelcomeness in Healthcare Encounters
Chuck K. WenPamela L. Hudak
Stephen W. Hwang
Peoples experiencing homelessness face many barriers to obtaining health care, and their attitudes toward seeking health care services may be shaped in part by previous encounters with health care providers. The objective was to examine how homeless persons experienced “welcomeness” and “unwelcomeness” in past encounters with health care...
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North America
“Talk With Me”: Perspectives on Services for Men with Problem Gambling and Housing Instability
Sara J. T. Guilcher
Sarah Hamilton-Wright
Wayne Skinner
Julia Woodhall-Melnik
Peter Ferentzy
Aklilu Wendaferew
Stephen W. Hwang
Flora I. Matheson
Problem gambling and homelessness are recognized as important public health concerns that significantly impact individuals, their friends and families, communities and broader society. We aimed to explore the experiences with health and social services of men who had histories of problem gambling and housing instability in Toronto,...
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North America
Reorienting risk to resilience: street-involved youth perspectives on preventing the transition to injection drug use
Kira Tozer
Despina Tzemis
Ashraf Amlani
Larissa Coser
Darlene Taylor
Natasha Van Borek
Elizabeth Saewyc
Jane A. Buxton
The Youth Injection Prevention (YIP) project aimed to identify factors associated with the prevention of transitioning to injection drug use (IDU) among street-involved youth (youth who had spent at least 3 consecutive nights without a fixed address or without their parents/caregivers in the previous six months) aged 16–24 years in...
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North America
We Have a Message: Women’s Stories of Aging, Disability and Homelessness
Women’s Stories: aging, disability and homelessness is an art and social justice project that is currently taking place in Toronto. The project consists of Red Wagon collective members among a group of women from the Junction area who have gathered to do a photo-documentary project. The intent of this project is to generate knowledge...
Region:
North America
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