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Housing First: The best bet to end homelessness

From 2002 to 2008, the counted number of homeless in Metro Vancouver increased 137 per cent, from 1,121 to 2,660. What is equally important, from 30 to 50 per cent (with some estimating as high as 70 per cent) of the homeless population in Vancouver have mental health concerns. An unfortunate result of de-institutionalization is that the burden of mental healthcare has fallen on the police and general hospitals. To solve homelessness, we can't just build homes. We must also successfully address the mental health concerns of the homeless.

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John Bonnar

'Temporary' program to help homeless people still going after 25 years

| May 9, 2012
John Bonnar

National movement launched to end homelessness

| April 11, 2012
John Bonnar

Formerly homeless man dies in palliative care

| March 14, 2012
in his own words

Social profiling in Victoria: What's wrong with this picture?

Two professionals meet at a street corner in downtown Victoria. They set their laptop cases down and begin to talk to each other. One of them leans against the wall of a building. Suddenly two police officers arrive and start yelling obscenities at them. They point out a no loitering sign in the window of a nearby restaurant and while one officer demands identification and issues trespassing tickets, the other confiscates their laptops as abandoned property and throws them in the trunk of a police cruiser.

Does that sound familiar? Of course not. This type of thing would never happen to people who look like consumers or property owners. If you read that paragraph again, replace "'professionals"' with "'homeless people."' It makes much more sense now.

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Redeye

The policing of poverty

March 3, 2012
| A new study has found that poor and street-involved people are the targets of increased levels of police attention. The authors argue that police are filling the gap left by social services.

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Canada's National Homelessness Marathon Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary

Feb 22 2012 - 5:00pm
Feb 23 2012 - 7:00am

Location

On the FM airwaves across Canada, including CKUT Montreal
Canada

Montreal, QC - For the tenth year in the row, CKUT radio will be hosting the Homelessness Marathon in front of the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal, going live to air with 14 hours of radio on housing and homelessness. The broadcast will happen from 5pm on February 22 until 7am the next morning. The Marathon will be broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, and will be simulcast on close to 40 other stations in nearly every province and territory across the country. This unique radio event brings CKUT's microphones right out into the street all night to amplify the voices of the Canada's homeless from coast to coast.

Contact name: 
Aaron Lakoff, Homelessness Marathon coordinator
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Homelessness and traumatic stress

trauma informed care 101

This 236 page trainer's manual on homelessness and traumatic stress is an extensive outline that covers everything needed to run at least three different workshops. The workshops are divided up into understanding the traumatic stress in experiencing homelessness, creating trauma informed services and incorporation into daily life. Each section should last about three hours. This workshop includes

a full trainer's guide to facilitation

tips for working with different groups

evaluations and checklists

agendas, sample slides, handouts and more!

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