Human Resources and Social Development Canada
Homelessness Partnering Secretariat
To promote an integrated approach to homelessness and housing policy and programs, as well as the development of horizontal linkages to other policy areas such as health, justice and immigration. The NHI’s mandate is to work with Canadian communities to overcome homelessness.
Programs/initiatives: the Supporting Communities Partnership Initiative (SCPI), the Regional Homelessness Fund (RHF), Urban Aboriginal Homelessness (UAH), the Surplus Federal Real Property for Homelessness Initiative (SFRPHI), the Homeless Individuals and Families Information System (HIFIS) and the National Research Program (NRP),Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS),Homelessness Partnership Initiative (HPI and Homelessness Accountability Network (HAN
Partner sites: Labour, CMHC, Policy Research Initiative, Service Canada
Homelessness
Academic researchers: Sylvia D’Addario (York University); Susan Mulligan (University of Winnipeg); Pierre Filion and Trudie E. Bunting (University of Waterloo); Lynn McDonald and R. Alan Walks (University of Toronto); Marta Young and Tim Aubry (University of Ottawa); Peter Donahue and Wilfreda Thurston (University of Calgary); Darryl Quantz, Frank James Tester, Jim Frankish and Kathy Sherrell (University of British Columbia); Céline Bellot (Université de Montréal); Irwin Cohen and Ray Corrado (Simon Fraser University); Kenise Kilbride and Stephen Webber (Ryerson University); Jeff Karanbanow (Dalhousie University); Behnam Behnia and Fran Klodawsky (Carleton University); Andrejs Skaburskis (Queen’s University)
Other researchers: Angus Glass (VisionLink Consulting); Michelle Muir (Spirit Research Group); Michael Goldberg (Social Planning and Research Council of BC); Barb Gosse (Social and Enterprise Development Innovations; Cheryl Forchuk (Lawson Health Research Institute); Bonnie Dinning (Ottawa Community Response Hoarding Coalition); Judie Bopp (Four Worlds Centre for Development Learning); Michel Petit (Harvest Society); Andrew Jackson (Canadian Labour Congress); Paul Carle (CLSC/SHLSD); Shawn Pegg (Canadian Association of Food Banks); and Rose Dufour
Fields of research: cost of homelessness, structural factors, youth homelessness, Aboriginal homelessness, shelter use, service delivery, health, affordable housing, immigrant homelessness, justice, at risk of homelessness, mental health,
http://www.hifis.ca/index_e.asp
- a user-friendly electronic records management system to collect information about the population using shelters
http://www.raisingtheroof.org/
-Raising the Roof
http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/modules/prb99-1-homelessn...
-a listing of Government of Canada publications
http://homelessnation.org/
-Canada's only website created by and for homeless Canadians; provides tools for homeless Canadians to share their stories and for the general public to interact and learn more about Canada's homeless population
http://www.ladybugfoundation.ca/
-Lady Bug Foundation to raise funds for homelessness
http://www.gvrd.bc.ca/homelessness/
-The Greater Vancouver Regional Steering Committee on Homelessness (RSCH)
http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/prb991-e.htm
-makes documents and reports available to the Canadian public that were originally prepared for general distribution to Canadian Parliamentarians http://intraspec.ca/homelessCanada.php
-an online journal that provides writings and research on matters of health and well-being
http://www.answers.com/topic/homelessness-in-canada
-free online dictionary, encyclopedia, and thesaurus
Contact information
165 rue l'Hotel-de-Ville #8th Floor
Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0J2
165 rue l'Hotel-de-Ville #8th Floor
Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0J2
