A Way Home – Youth Homelessness Prevention – AWH
AWH1: Investing in Early and Upstream Efforts to Prevent Youth Homelessness
Early Intervention with Youth Connected to the Justice System – Nick Blouin, Manager Programs and Partnerships, Homeward Trust Edmonton; Andrea Kocken, Supervisor, YMCA of Northern Alberta
Chosen Family Hosting Investing in the Adults Already in Young Peoples Lives –Mallory VanMeeter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jacqueline White, Executive Director, CloseKnit
‘Implementing Innovation’: Transformational Practices in Youth Homelessness Prevention – Hart Walker, MA Sociology, PhD Candidate Sociology, Evaluation Coordinator, York University;Amanda Buchnea, Toronto Centre of Excellence, Making the Shift Inc.
AWH2: The Dynamics Around “Home” for Youth Experiencing Homelessness
“Home is not really a place”: Young adults post-homelessness experiences of (dis)connection, identity, and belonging – Naomi Thulien, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital
By Youth For Youth – Youth Breaking Barriers Project –Samantha Saige Lobb, Youth Homelessness Prevention and Housing Stabilization Strategy; Bonnie Harkness, 360kids Support Services
Data-Driven Innovation: A Pilot Housing Program for High-Needs Youth under 18 – Nicole Jackson, Impact & Evaluation, Trellis; Jen Hosie, The Boreal, Trellis
AWH3: The Intersectional Realities of Youth Homelessness Interventions
Get it Right: Transitional Housing Occupancy Agreements to Support the Legal and Human Rights of Young People – Claire Millgate, Justice For Children and Youth
Youth Homelessness and Sex Trafficking in Canada –Amanda Noble, Covenant House Toronto; Ben Owens, Covenant House
Soft Landing & Rapid Re-Housing Initiative –Greg Quinn, Choices for Youth; Jolene Cooze, Choices for Youth
AWH4: At the Ground Level – Communities Investing in Youth Homelessness Prevention
The Edmonton Youth Agency Collaboration (YAC): Building a Collaborative, Strategic, System of Complex Care for Youth with Multiple Agencies – Margo Long, YESS
No Where to Go: Learnings from the Peer-Led Youth Homelessness Report in Penticton, B.C. –Jamie Lloyd-Smith, City of Penticton; Melisa Edgerly, City of Penticton
The Jeunes+ Coalition –Cécile Arbaud, Jeunes + Coalition; Mélodie Cordeau, Dans la rue
AWH5: Research Underpinning Making the Shift
Reflective Practice in Homelessness Research and Practice: Firsthand Experiences of Researchers and Practitioners When Working with Youth with Lived/Living Experience of Homelessness – Cas Star, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness; Melanie Lusted, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness; Ahmad Bonakdar, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Participant Retention in Housing First for Youth Demonstration Project: Successes and Challenges –Athourina David, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Communities of Practice: How Consistent Opportunities for Engagement have Allowed Organizations to Capitalize on Knowledge – Orpah Cundangan, Community Animator, A Way Home Canada
AWH6: Housing First for Youth: Where Adaptations have Galvanized Efforts
Promising Findings from HF4Y Youth Homelessness Prevention Interventions –Cora MacDonald, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH), York University
HF4Y in the Arctic –Tammy Roberts, The Side Door Ministries (Operating as Home Base Yellowknife)
You Can’t do HF4Y without FNS –Heidi Walter, A Way Home Canada; Kim Kakakaway, A Way Home Canada
AWH7: How Data and Trends can Help Us Change the Conversation!
Preventing Discharge to No Fixed Address – Youth (NFA Y) –Cheryl Forchuk, Beryl and Richard Ivey, Lawson Health Research Institute
Exploring Housing Wait Times Relevant to the Prevention and Exit from Youth Homelessness –Ann De Shalit, Ontario Tech University
Harnessing Current Trends and Youth Voices for Strategic Program Development – Robyn Holmes, Connect Youth Inc.; Chelsea Anderson, Connect Youth Inc.
AWH8: Demonstrating the Flexibility of Youth Homelessness Prevention
Implementing Prevention Programs – Successes, Challenges and Lessons Learned –Justin Sage-Passant, Covenant House Toronto
Homelessness Prevention through a Trades-Based Enterprise –Emmy Kelly, Blue Door
Omamoo Wango Gamik – Preventing Indigenous youth houselessness during a global pandemic –Cynthia Puddu, MacEwan University; Carola Cunningham, Niginan Housing Ventures