CAEH 2019
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 – November 4, 2019
AWH-1: Youth Voice – Turning Listening into Action
- Lived Experience Mentorship – Jayne Malenfant and Charlotte Smith
AWH-2: Housing First for Youth – Serving Distinct Youth Populations Effectively
- Aunt Leah’s Place: Housing First & Servinf Youth From Care – Drew Stewart
- Free 2 Be: Housing First for Youth Leaving Care – Rasheeda Guinn
- Free 2 Be: Housing First for Youth Leaving Care – Erik Wexler
AWH-3: The Prevention Continuum
- Supporting Young Families Through Collaborative Practice – Jill Doyle and Sheldon Polllett
- Making the Shift to a Prevention-Focused Emergency Youth Shelter – Sarah MacKinnon and Rachelle Bowie
CA-1: By-Name Lists & Coordinated Access Systems 101
- By-Name List (BNL) & Coordinated Access (CA) 101 – Marie Morrison
CA-2: Building Will and Leading Change in Coordinated Access
- Building Will and Leading Change in CA – Ashley Van Der Mark
- Building Will and Leading Change in Peterborough – Dorothy Olver
- Building the Will & Leading Change: Coordinated Access in Saint John – Michael MacKenzie Saint John
CA-3: Beyond Implementation of Coordinated Access: Using Data for Continuous Learning and Growth in Large Urban Centres
- Collaboration and Data for Coordinated Access – Ashley Edstrom.pdf
HCH-1: Housing as a Social Determinant of Health: Needs and Responses of Older Adults who are Experiencing Homelessness
- Health and Psychosocial Needs of Older Persons Experiencing Homelessness Upon Hospital Discharge – Harvey Bosma
- Temporary Housing Program – Joe Humphries
- Medical Respite as an Intervention for Older Adults’ Post-Discharge Recovery – Scott Small
HCH-3: Improving Access to Healthcare Services to Save Lives
- Exploring the Appropriateness and Acceptability of Peer Navigators to Increase HIV Prevention, Testing, and Treatment – Van Berkum, Atkin and Oudshoorn
- EMS Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH) City Centre Team (CCT) – Eggenberger Larson
HCH-4: Youth Services: Successful Youth Programs and Prevention for Youth with Disabilities
- Transitional Housing That Works: Profile of a Young Adult Program in Edmonton – Shannon Edsas
- Integrated Service Delivery – Joshua Smee
HF-1: Implementing and Sustaining Housing First Evidenced-based Housing Support Programs
- Housing First Employment Program – Christina Bassett
- Adopting Housing First Principles Through the Implementation Critical Time Intervention in a Homeless Shelter: Learnings and Practice Outcomes – Potvin, Carveth, Silver, Paramali and Monroy
HF-3: Person-Centred Strength-Based Case Management and Service Planning for Unique Clients Through a Housing First Approach
- Centerpoint Presentation – Tammy_Ouellette
- CAEH19 Presentation V4 Oct 29-19-Slides-Only – Carlson Joly
HF-4: Examining Innovative Approaches to Housing Stability and Eviction Prevention
- Landlord Damage Fund for Housing First Programs – Lavigne, Westlake
- Maximizing Housing: Low to Moderate Acuity Housing Procurement – Rowbotham, Kennedy
HF-5: Collaborative and Innovative Housing First Outreach Models
- Housing Action Response Team (HART) – Sean Hand
- Mobile Community Development – Shannon Keetch
IH-2: Improving Indigenous Homelessness Engagement and Mobilizing Cultural Practices
- Pekiwewin (Coming Home) – Nancy Laliberte, Jesse Thistle
LPP-1: The Latest on HIFIS: Creating a Community-wide and Outcome-oriented System
LPP-4: Encampment to Housing: Rethinking Street Outreach and Responding to Rough Sleepers
- Street Outreach to Housing – Dick Passmore
LPP-6: Campaigning to End Homelessness: Lessons in How to Achieve Political Change
- Homelessness and Political Change – Matt Downie
RPCOH-1: Systems Planning and Collective Impact: A Comprehensive Solution to Ending Homelessness
- Calling All Systems Disruptors! – Mifsud, McKitterick, Turner
- Using Social Network Analysis to Understand the Impact of Systems Integration Efforts – Rebecca Schiff
- Ending Homelessness in St. John’s: Assessment of a 5-Year Community Plan – Tipple, Falvo
RPCOH-2: Driven by Data: Strategies for Tracking and Sharing Program Outcomes
- Driven by Data: Strategies for Tracking & Sharing Program Outcomes – Vasko, Ecker, McRae
RPCOH-3: Meaningful Engagement with People with Lived Experience in Research
RRH-3: Rural Solutions as Critical Drivers in the Shift Towards the Prevention of Youth Homelessness
- St. Thomas-Elgin Youth Homelessness Protocol – Pike, Singh
WH-1: Street Level Women at Risk: A Collaborative Housing First Model
- Street Level Women At Risk (SLWAR) – Jaclyn Seeler
WH-2: Gender, Family and Homelessness: Understanding Health and Improving Programming to Meet the Need
- Gender Specific Programming: Lessons Learned – Chelsea Minhas
- Gender and Experiences of Family Homlessness – Rabiah-Mohammed, Fawziah
Day 2 – November 5, 2019
CA-6: Driving Reductions and Reaching and Sustaining Functional Zero
- Guelph-Wellington Built for Zero – Lori Richer
- Driving Reductions and Reaching and Sustaining Functional Zero – Jaime Rogers
- Reaching Functional Zero – Kawartha Lakes and the County of Haliburton – Michelle Corley
CA-8: Leveraging HIFIS 4 in the Quest for Functional Zero: A Rural Community’s Experience
HCH-6: Health Care and Legal/Administrative Partnerships to Prevent Eviction: From Concepts to Models
- The OCHE Model and Eviction Prevention – Iserhoff
HCH-7: Healthcare Roundup: Principles of Participatory Research, Solution to Elderly Homelessness and Developing a Trauma-Informed Community of Practice
- A Home Until Stumps – Kate Rice
HF-8: Learnings from Recent Research on Program Fidelity in Adult and Youth Housing First Programs
HF-9: Clinical Supports for Housing First Clients
- Mental Health and Addictions Supportive Housing Program – Maggie Elliott and Andy Menlaws
- A Unique Approach to Clinical Supports in Housing First – Robynn Strikwerda
IH-4: Indigenous Culture and Housing First
- Niiwin Makwag Niimiiwag: A Dacade Journey of Courage and Leadership for Housing First in Winnipeg – Distasio, Bruce, Edel
IH-5: Culture, Gender, Safety: Programs for Indigenous Youth and Families
- Developing Gendered and Culturally Safe Interventions for Indigenous Families Experiencing Homelessness – Rodrigues, Henderson
- The Memengoo Program
LPP-7: Integrating Lived Experience in Planning
- Kelowna’s Journey Home Strategy – Joyal, Smith, Tranquilla, Murray
LPP-8: The Role of Public Libraries as Partners in Serving Vulnerable Populations
- The Role of Public Libraries as Partners in Serving Vulnerable Populations – Aly Velji, Richard Thornley
- The Role of Edmonton Public Library as a partner in Serving Vulnerable Populations – Richard Thornley
LPP-10: Innovative Approaches to Supportive Housing
- The Parkside Pilot – Forrest McGregor
LPP-11: Promoting Inclusion of Lived and Living Expertise at the Table
- The Client Action Committee: An Introductory Guide to Understanding Lived Experience – Michael Grant
RPCOH-5: Social and Structural Exclusion and Homelessness: From Belonging to Criminalization
- From Project Exclusion to Project Inclusion – Meenakshi Mannoe
- Planned prison release from prison or how to exit the streets! – Melanie Richer
- Grassroots Experiences with Criminalization of Poverty and Homelessness – Yake, Mannoe
RPCOH-6: Research Roundup: Broader Policy Interests and Implications
- A profile of workers in the homelessness support sector – Kiran Toor and Annie Duchesne
- National Homelessness Data – Annie Duchesne, Patrick Hunter
- Understanding Impact – Jamieson, Shahed
RRH-4: Building Partnerships and Maximizing Limited Regional Resources for Effective Interventions, Housing and Services
- Our Numbers Need To Go Down – Shahed, Smee
- Don’t H*te! Collaborate! – Andrea, Cupelli
RRH-5: The Impact of Funding for Rural and Remote Ontario, Saskatchewan and Yellowknife
- Homelessness in Yellowknife – Holly Ferris
- Reaching Home: Rural and Remote (Ontario) – Rosslyn Junke
WH-4: Continuum of Solutions to Women’s Homelessness
- Low Barrier Spaces for Women: A Critical Part of the Homelessness Solution – Valerie Sadler
- Creating a Continuum of Solutions for Women Experiencing Homelessness in Yellowknife – Bryany Denning
WH-6: Sex Work, Sex Trafficking and the Justice System
- Womxn, Work and Home: Experiences of Homelessness for Forest Lawn Survival Sex Workers – Meagan Bristowe
- Justice System Involvement in the Context of Homelessness and Housing Insecurity Among Women in Thunder Bay – Rebecca_Schiff
- Getting Out: A National Framework for Escaping Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in Canada – Amanda_Noble
Day 3 – November 6, 2019
AWH-7: Beyond Housing – Changing the Trajectory
- Walking the Pathway with Our Clients A Continuum of Youth Residential Services – Kaela Hendra
- Housing Stabilization – Naomi Thulien
CA-9: Common Assessment Tools Café
- Another Way Home – Krista Mergel
CA-10: Safe, Inclusive and Culturally Appropriate CAS
- Safe, Inclusive & Culturally Appropriate Coordinated Access Systems – Jasmine Clark
- Safe, Inclusive & Culturally Appropriate Coordinated Access – Caitlin Currie
- End Homelessness Winnipeg – Betty Edel
HCH-8: HCH-8: Acute Care Best Practices for Patients Experiencing Homelessness: Lessons from the ARCH Model
- A New Model of Care – Kathryn Dong
HF-10: Effective Housing First Case Management
- Managing Interpersonal Processes – Landon Hildebrand
LPP-12: Trauma-Informed Care: Building Awareness and Understanding
- Trauma Informed Change Process and Impact – Howes, Noble
- CUPS Journet: Trauma Aware to Trauma Informed – Leavitt, Park
LPP-13: Ending Homelessness: Planning, Housing, Collaboration and Harm Reduction
- Moving from Collaboration to Action: The Story of Journey Home Kelowna – C Myrah, Roy, Wheeler
- Integrating Housing in the Pursuit of Ending Homelessness – A Yolisa de Jager
- Integrated Planning for a Healthier Community – M. Thomson, J. Casorso
PCOH-7: Modelling Prevention: Program Teachings Across Canada
- We all deserve a home – Catharine Vandelinde
- Buried in Treasures – Joyce Lundrigan
- Housing Loss Prevention – McGregor
RPCOH-7: Supporting Housing Access and Retention: Research and Practice in Housing Stabilization
- Stabilization for Youth Exiting Homelessness – Carty, Daley, Kidd, Paytayash and Vitopoulos
- Risk Mitigation Funds to a Tenant Guarantee – Holeton, Armstrong
RRH-7: Innovation in Rural and Remote Communities
- Efforts to End Homelessness in a Boom and Bust Economy – Shanda Berns