Concurrent Sessions

A Way Home: Working Together to End Youth Homelessness in Canada

• A Way Home / Vers un chez-sois – Melanie Redman and Stephen Gaetz

Youth homelessness prevention framework and change management

• Boys & Girls Club of Calgary – A good place to be – Kim Wirth and Katie Davies

Preventing, Reducing and Ending LGBTQ2S Youth Homelessness Across Canada

• Curate Convene Catalyze – Leslie McMillan
• Preventing, Reducing and Ending LGBTQ2S Youth Homelessness – Dr. Alex Abramovich

LPP1: What role do emergency shelters play in ending homelessness?

• What Role Can Emergency Shelters Play in Ending Homelessness? The Salvation Army’s 7 Operating Principles – Alison Kooistra
• Housing First: Policy and Practice: Considerations for Shelters in Toronto – Gordon Tanner
• What Role do Emergency Shelters Plan in Ending Homelessness? – Bradley Harris
• The Role of Shelters in Ending Homelessness – Stacey Carmichael

LPP2: Homelessness policy in Montreal and Quebec: history, news and perspectives 

• Le plan d’action intersectoriel en itinérance de la région de Montréal (2015‐2020). AGIR ENSEMBLE, CRÉER DES SOLUTIONS DURABLES.

LPP3: Quebec Showcase

• Using Data to Reduce Homelessness – Annie Duchesne and Georges Ohana
• Approche des situations critiques de rupture sociale. L’expérience d’équipes interorganisationnelles – Michelle Simard
• PRISM et SII – Dr. Olivier Farmer and Patrick Girard
• Principes et concepts en santé urbaine appliquée

Youth 1: Mental Health and Addiction

• Reaching out to vulnerable youth – MONTREAL HOMELESS YOUTH NETWORK – Amal Abdel-Baki
• The Inner City Youth Program: Evolving Service to Meet Needs – Dr. Steve Mathias

20k1: 20,000 Homes Campaign overview and learnings from early pilots

• Hamilton – 20,000 Homes Campaign Update – Amanda DiFalco
• 20K Homes Campaign – Waterloo Region – Marie Morrison
• 20,000 Homes Campaign: Ottawa’s Action – Mike Bulthuis

HF2: Engaging Challenging Clients

• A Participant Focused & Driven Perspective & Theory – Working With Difficult Participants – Wally Czech

RP2: Mental Health

• The Meaning of Poverty for Individuals with Mental Illness – Cheryl Forchuk
• A knowledge exchange strategy to reduce criminal justice involvement among homeless individuals living with mental illness – Laurence Roy, Anne Crocker, Eric Latimer, Roch Hurtubise, Michelle Côté, Isabelle Billette, France Desjardins, Jason Champagne

LPP5: Nothing about us, without us: principles and practices for lived experience leadership in services, advocacy and policy

• Nothing About Us Without Us – Terrie Meehan
• My Experience with the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s At Home / Chez Soi Toronto Site Demonstration Project – Alexander Zsager

Youth 2: Employment

• Youth Opportunities Unlimited Overview – Steve Cordes
• Hire Up – Paul Klein
• Youth Employment and Ending Youth Homelessness – Sheldon Pollett

20K2: Registry week 101

• Registry Week 101 – Paul Howard and Andi Broffman

HF3: Guidelines for adapting Housing First to different populations and local

• Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre – Sharon Redsky

RP3: Facilitating screening and prioritization for Housing First services

• Housing First Assessment Tools Task Force: Objectives and Methods – Tim Aubry
• The Vulnerability Assessment Tool (VAT) – John Ecker
• Screening for Housing First for Communities – Stephen Gaetz

RP4: Understanding and facilitating the implementation of effective models of housing and supports

• Facilitating Effective Models of Supportive Housing – Bruk Melles
• Promoting Integrative Health and Social Care in Ontario: A Case Study of the Housing and Homelessness Framework Steering Group – Kristy Buccieri and Jeanne Thomas
• Fostering Security for Newcomers with Housing Insecurity in Calgary – Christine Walsh

LPP6: Achieving functional zero: lessons from the field

• A Functional End To Homelessness – Jamie Rogers
• Reaching “Functional Zero” in Fredericton – Mike O’Brien
• Discerning ‘Functional Zero’: Considerations for Defining and Measuring an End to Homelessness – Alina Turner

Youth 3: Gaps in caring: models for supporting youth exiting care, youth experiencing sexual exploitation, and newcomer youth

• Aunt Leah’s Place – Building a Brighter Future for Foster Kids – Drew Stewart
• What’s the Map? Newcomer Youth Leading the Call to Action – Cheyanne Ratnam
• Housing Model – Transition to Independence. Key Program Elements – Bruce Rivers and Carol Howes
• Supporting Sexually Exploited Young Women to Independence – Bruce Rivers

H3: Models of harm reduction in permanent housing

• Harm Reduction in Housing First – Ben Mead and Christine McKay

20K3: Data collection, reporting and analysis

• 20,000 Homes Campaign Data Collection Reporting and Analysis – Paul Howard and Andi Broffman

HF5: Models of Housing First service teams

• Approche logement d’abord: Modèles de suivis cliniques – Nancy Keays and Benoit St-Pierre
• Journey Home – A Housing First Program – Andrea Cowie

HF6: Housing retention strategies: incorporating community building and eviction prevention

• Housing Retention Strategies; Incorporation Community Building and Eviction Prevention – Lisa Ker, Brigitte Witkowski and Brian Davis

RP5: Exploring effective systems responses to homelessness

• Population Specific Service Integration and its Relationship to Systems Integration – Naomi Nichols
• Systems Planning and Governance – Carey Doberstein
• A Framework for Systems Integration – Stephen Gaetz

RP6: Homelessness Round-up

• Home Less Mess – HAP Kamploops – Tangie Genshorek and Robin Nichol
• Homelessness in an Aging Society: A Research-based Response for Policy and Programming – Amanda Grenier

LPP8: Family Homelessness

• Beyond Housing First: A Holistic Approach to Family Homelessness in Canada – Carolann Barr
• Ending Family Homelessness in Waterloo Region – Angela Pye

LPP9: Homelessness Prevention

• Homeless Prevention Program – An Example of Service Delivery Innovation – Lori Dennis
• BC Housing – Dominic Flanagan
• Developing a Prevention Approach in England – Rick Henderson
• The Reintegration Centre – Providing Reintegration Support and Services for TSDC Releasees in South Etobicoke – Amber Kellen

Youth 4: Housing Options for Youth

• Youth Homelessness Toolkits – Allyson Marsolais
• Rights of Passage Program – Chelsea Minhas

20K4: Using the campaign for engagement and advocacy

• Using the Campaign for Engagement and Advocacy – Tim Richter
• Engagement and Advocacy in the Campaign Context – Jake Maguire

HF7: Integrating recovery guidelines and practice when delivering Housing First

• Using Recovery Oriented Practice in Housing First – Brian Dean Williams and Aimee LeBlanc

HF8: Housing support and landlord retention

• Housing Support and Landlord Retention – Rochelle Lalonde

RP7: Identifying effective responses to youth homelessness

• Does a Specialized Outreach Mental Health Team for Homeless Youth with Addiction and Psychotic Disorders Contribute to End Homelessness? – Amal Abdel-Baki
• Retaining a Sample of Youth Homelessness – Cheryl Forchuk
• An Ethnographic Study of Homeless Youth Transitions to Independent Housing – Naomi Thulien

RP8: Addressing Aboriginal homelessness in Canada 

• In the Absence of Policy: First Nations and Aboriginal Housing in Canada – Dr. Yale D. Belanger
• Becoming Home: What Aboriginal Two Spirit and LGBTQ say about Home, Community and Belonging – Lisa Passante

LPP1: What role do emergency shelters play in ending homelessness?

• What Role Can Emergency Shelters Play in Ending Homelessness? The Salvation Army’s 7 Operating Principles – Alison Kooistra
• Housing First: Policy and Practice: Considerations for Shelters in Toronto – Gordon Tanner
• What Role do Emergency Shelters Plan in Ending Homelessness? – Bradley Harris
• The Role of Shelters in Ending Homelessness – Stacey Carmichael