CAEH 2017
Keynote Speeches & Plenaries
Concurrent Sessions
Thank you to all the fantastic presenters without whom the National Conference on Ending Homelessness would not be possible.
Please click on the stream names below to view the session video recordings and PDF presentations available for each stream.
Day 1 – October 25, 2017
LPP1: Helping Our Clients and Ourselves: Creating Psychologically Informed Environments
- Helping Our Clients and Ourselves – Steph Barker
LPP2: Systems Approaches to Ending Homelessness
- Driving Systems Change through Leadership and Collaboration – Nonie Brennan
- It takes more than a program – Jarrod Bayne
IH1: Models of Indigenous Leadership in Community Planning and Program Development
- Aboriginal Voices on Housing (AVOHN) – Jess Daniels
- Building Community & Indigenous Governance – Fran Hunt-Jinnouchi
IH2: Living in Indigenous Sovereignty: Colonialism, Indigenous Homelessness, and Non-Indigenous Engagement
- Living in Indigenous Sovereignty – Liz Carlson
WH1: Community Response to Homelessness for Women in Winnipeg: The Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre
- Putting the Pieces Together – Deidre Garson
20K1: Introducing a New Problem-Solving Infrastructure
- Introducing a new Problem Solving Infrastructure – Jake McGuire
HF2: Housing First for Women, Trans Individuals & Families: Challenges and Lessons Learned
- Housing First for Women & Families – Lorie English
AWH1: Youth Voice
- A Way Home Ottawa – Kaite Burkholder Harris / Dr. Jackie Kennelly
COH1: Research Roundup
- A data driven approach to building a successful homeless prevention program – Daniel Farrell
- Neglected Citizenry – Homelessness and Voting in Toronto – Anna Kopec
LPP3: Addressing Homelessness in Rural and Small Town Canada
- Innovative Solutions in Ending Rural and Small Town Homelessness – Chantal Perry
- Community Engagement and Outcomes Measurement – Amy Davis
IH3: Perspectives on Indigenous Homelessness and Housing First for Indigenous Peoples from Australia and New Zealand
- Incorporating Indigenous (Māori) Practices – Paul Timinis & Sophia Beaton
- Indigenous homelessness in Australia – Shannen Vallesi
20K2: Enhanced Enumeration – Combining Point-in-Time Counts and Registry Weeks to Support By-Name Lists
- Making enumeration count – Amanda DiFalco
- Making Enumeration Count – Andi Broffman
HF3: Preventing Discharge into Homelessness with Housing First
- Preventing Discharge to “No Fixed Address” – Cheryl Forchuk
- Transitioning Youth from Care to Independence – Kathryn Kot
AWH2: Youth Homelessness Prevention
- Boys and Girls Club of Calgary – Kim Ledene
- The Upstream Project – Elisa Traficante
COH3: Legislating the Prevention of Homelessness
Day 2 – October 26, 2017
LPP6: Models for Engaging People with Lived Experience of Homelessness
- The Design Process – Sophia Beaton
IH5: Case Studies on Addressing Inuit Homelessness in Nunavut and Montreal
- Comparison of Two Scattered-Site Housing – Connie Ly
- Considerations for Addressing Inuit Homelessness in Nunavut – Cassandra Vink
- Housing-First for Montreal Inuit – Graham Isaak
WH3: Summary of the Outcomes of a National Symposium on Women and Housing
- Pan Canadian Voice for Women’s Housing 2017 Symposium – Debbie Stewart
20K3: Lessons from 20,000 Homes Campaign: Bright Spots & Challenges
- From Registry Week To Coordinated Entry – Randalin Ellery
- Lessons from 20,000 Homes Campaign – Cory O’Handley
- System Performance, Coordinated Access and the By Names List – Ashley Eddy
HF6: Engaging landlords in Housing First
- Engaging Landlords in Housing First – Jennifer Rae
COH5: Power of Networks for Mobilizing Knowledge to End Homelessness
- A Collaborative Effort in Alberta – Susan McGee
- Power of Networks for Mobilizing Knowledge to End Homelessness – Amanda DiFalco
- Power of Networks for Mobilizing Knowledge to End Homelessness – Mia Burgess
- The Role of Cross-Community Networks in Enhancing Capacity of Leaders Implementing Housing First – S. Kathleen Worton
COH6: Housing First for Youth and Making the Shift: When Outcomes Drive Implementation
- Housing First for Youth – Ashley Ward
LPP7: How to Be an Awesome, Housing-Focused Shelter
- Emergency Shelter Framework – Angela Pye
LPP8: How to Be an Awesome, Housing-Focused Shelter
- An Innovative Cross Sector Approach to Funding Housing First – Faith McFarland
- Innovative Approaches to Community Planning – Don Elliott
- Regional Planning to Address Homelessness – John Reilly
IH7: l’taamohkanoohsin- (Everyone Comes Together)
- I’taamohkanoohsin (Everyone Comes Together) – Chelsey de Groot
IH8: Homelessness for Indigenous Youth
WH4: Gender Matters: Differential Experiences of Finding Home for Women
- Counting Women in to the National Housing Strategy – Collette Prevost
- e4c’s Women’s Emergency Accommodation Centre – Lauren Groves
- Identifying Pathways to Wellness for Women Experiencing Homelessness – Kristy Buccieri
HF8: The ‘How and Why’ of Housing First Fidelity Assessment
- Findings from a Fidelity Assessment of Pathways to Housing DC – Jennifer Rae
- How to Conduct an Internal Fidelity Assessment on a Pathways Housing First Program – Tim Aubry
AWH4: Navigating Systems
- Toronto’s Youth Homelessness Strategy Framework – Beth Hayward
- Ray optional occupancy mentorship (room) – A CASE STUDY of Systems Integration – Kelly Holmes
COH7: Preventing Homelessness: From a Framework to Implementation
- Homelessness Prevention – From Framework to Action – Stephen Gaetz
- Systems Integration as Prevention – Alina Turner
- Thrive – Jaime Rogers
COH8: Understanding Indigenous Homelessness Through Innovative Research Methods
- PMHC and PWC – Outside the Cities – Tenille Thomson & Alicia Buckley
- Examining Forms of Hidden Homelessness in Rural And Northern Ontario – Dr. Carol Kauppi
- Indigenous Methodology – Jesse Thistle
LPP9: Using Data to Drive Decisions, Funding and Practice
- Leadership and Data – A Relationship to End Veteran Homelessness in Chicago – Kimberly Schmitt
- Montreal Dashboard – Visualising Data in Order to Better Share It – Sonya Cormier
LPP10: Building Bridges to Housing: Supporting Homeless Adults with Mild Intellectual Disabilities Through Multidisciplinary Care
- Confronting Complexity with Innovation – Laural Raine
IH9: Mino Kaanjigoowin: A Holistic Response to Mental Health Services for Homeless Men
- Mino Kaanjiigoowin Program – Steve Teekens
IH10: A Focus on Housing and Homelessness for Indigenous Women
- The healing journey process – Julie Cunningham
WH5: Violence Against Women, Housing and Homelessness
- Healing, Independence, and Stability after Abuse – Carolyn Goard
- Housing Homeleessness and Housing for Women – Krystle Maki
- Innovative Transitional Housing Options for Women Leaving Domestic Violence in Southern Alberta – Brigitte Baradoy & Sherrie Botten
- Mission Made Possible – Yolisa De Jager
HF9: Adapting Housing First to Local Context
- Housing First Implementation in Smaller Cities – Ben Appleby
- How to Build a High Fidelity Housing First Program from Scratch – Sharon Suter
- Localizing Housing First – Winnipeg’s At Home Experience of Building Capacity and Ending Homelessness – Jino Distasio
HF10: Addressing Home Takeovers of Vulnerable Individuals
- Home Takeovers – Nicole Li
COH9: Preventing Homelessness in the Big City: Development, Displacement, Urban Policy and Claiming Space in Toronto and Vancouver
- Carnegie Community Action Project – Phoenix Winter
- Development, displacement, and housing policies in Toronto and Vancouver – Dr. Emily Paradis
COH10: Understanding Youth Homelessness
- A Critical Examination of Homeless Youth Transitions – Naomi Thulien
- Primary Prevention of Youth Homelessness – Amanda Noble & Dr. Kaitlin Schwan
- The invisibility of disability for homeless youth – Stephanie Baker Collins
Day 3 – October 27, 2017
LPP12: Rehousing and Reintegrating Older Adults into Supportive Housing: Montreal and Calgary-based Case Studies
- Pas de la Rue – J. Akrich
- Rehousing and reintegrating older adults into supportive housing – Victoria Burns
IH12: The Right to Housing for First Nations and Options for Indigenous Independent Housing
- Indigenous independent housing – Catherine Lafferty
- The Right to Housing For First Nations Communities On Reserve – David Desbaillets
HF11: Housing First Roundup
- Client engagement strategies for recreational programming and the benefits for housing stability – Sebastian Benavides
- Hostels to Homes: Housing First for Long-Term Shelter Users – Laurel Raine
- Workers Weekly – Organizations’ responsibility to Front-line worker health – Yolisa de Jager
AWH6: Research to Action
- Including the voices of youth – Marleny Bonnycastle
COH11: Let’s have an Adult Talk About LGBTQ Homelessness in Canada
- Adult Homelessness in Canada – Hilary Chapple
- Aura Housing First for LGBTQ2S+ Youth – Kristin Johnston
- Creating LGBTQ2S Affirming & Specialized Policies and Solutions to Homelessness – Dr. Alex Abramovich
- LGBTQ2S – Dr. John Ecker
AWH6: Research to Action
- HIFIS Research Updates – Aaron Segaert