When you, City Council, keep giving homelessness agencies 1-2 year funding contracts, how can you be annoyed when they constantly come asking for funding renewals?
Coun. Stevenson speaks out on Ark Aid funding shortfall share.google/8fcNuGCECI3u...
Service providers working in #homelessness and housing feel the pains of a broken system in many ways themselves. Service bans are one of the processes that have been linked to moral distress. This will be a meaningful webinar exploring the issue: www.sjmhlab.com/event-detail...
The report answers the question: triple current housing and homelessness funding.
www.tvo.org/article/anal...
For folks in the UK:
Wonderful work on Black Nursing student mentorship from here at Western University - www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
When I think about prevention I think about how we also need to empower people through interactions with our systems.
In this video I talk about a paper where we proposed advancing the current model on homelessness prevention to also include empowerment in the process: youtu.be/kGKUdUJEVuo
They should just have Bad Bunny do the Superbowl again next year.
The reasons that refugees end up in emergency shelters are different than Canadian citizens or even newcomers of different statuses. This qualitative study was published in the European Journal on Homelessness:
youtu.be/pnN--8Mm6_I
London City Council is at a risk of going very much backwards on our homelessness response, shifting more to an emergency shelter focus and placing pre-conditions on Housing First.
I have sent all members of Council the following letter: www.abeoudshoorn.com/whats-best-f...
I really appreciate Steve Cordes outlining in this podcast why a "Good Neighbours" policy actually just becomes another barrier to services that are helping marginalized people: the-matt-brown-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/ste...
Many scholars identify "intersectionality" as their theoretical framework, but it's pretty high level. So how does one actually do research that is intersectional? In this paper, myself and my student team unpack how to "do" intersectionality.
youtu.be/_j7ufGmMMLQ
An important article that illustrates that homelessness is not always an immediate catastrophe, but for many is a slow slide into poorer and poorer housing conditions:
www.barrietoday.com/local-news/o...
And housing benefits are least effective where rent controls are weakest, Canada being a good example of that. In the context of rent control, rent supplements are a safer investment.
Homelessness is getting worse across Ontario with an estimated 85,000 people who were without a home in 2025 and nearly 2,000 encampments across the province, a new report from Ontario’s municipalities shows. #Onpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1161124...
If I'm reading this right, it means that density pays, and low density neighbourhoods are being funded by other neighbourhoods.
Do supervised consumption sites work to reduce disease?
Yes
But also, perhaps they are about much more than disease?
Check out this video summary of our study on the meaning of SCSs on the lives of site users:
youtu.be/o7h0tg5gOnA
Jon spent a career in social work with people who are struggling, including providing shelter to people experiencing homelessness. I particularly appreciated Jon's gentle, progressive push of the Salvation Army shelter, an organization with a challenged history - www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...
A wonderful list of distinguished Londoners! #LdnOnt lfpress.com/news/local-n...
The Liberals have always been a fairly large tent crossing left and right, I suspect as many voters who switch between NDP and Liberal, switch between Liberal and Conservative.
Can libraries be spaces of mental healthcare? Check out a summary of our brief evaluation on a model implemented in #LdnOnt - youtu.be/bUTY5ubmIlo
"The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served." - Julian Tudor Hart
Ponència del Dr. Abe Oudshoorn director de The Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing de la Western University (Canadà).
Dades i reflexions a l'entorn de les raons del sensellarisme.
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