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PROVINCES/TERRITORIES 1. Implement a Provincial/Territorial Strategy to Prevent and End Youth Homelessness, supported by a targeted investment. 2. Embed youth homelessness prevention within Provincial/Territorial Poverty Reduction Strategies, ensuring that the Strategy provides the social and material supports to reduce poverty, housing need, and food insecurity among families with children and youth. 3. In liaison with the federal government, establish provincial/territorial service standards in the area of youth homelessness, which in turn can be tracked provincially to inform funding decisions. 4. Prioritize and support systems integration in all efforts to proactively address the needs of youth at risk of homelessness or experiencing homelessness. As part of this systems integration, all provincial/territorial ministries and departments should be mandated to identify their roles and responsibilities in addressing youth homelessness. 5. Invest in provincial/territorial knowledge development and data management specific to youth homelessness in order to advance an integrated systems approach to youth homelessness prevention. 6. Engage in the ongoing review of current system barriers to assess how the prevention of youth homelessness can be improved across systems, including through integration and improved access to services, supports, and housing for youth and their families. 7. Foster meaningful youth engagement in all provincial/territorial policy development, planning, and implementation processes that affect youth at risk of homelessness and experiencing homelessness. Ensure the provision of necessary supports (reimbursement, compensation, accessibility, etc.) at all events, forums, and discussion groups. 8. Create provincial/territorial housing and shelter standards that meet the diverse needs of youth at risk of homelessness or experiencing homelessness, developed in partnership with youth and Indigenous communities. 9. Support communities to implement harm reduction models that focus on reducing the risks or harmful effects associated with substance use and addictive or other behaviours that pose risks for youth. WHAT WOULD IT TAKE? 16
INTEGRATED GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS 1. Work across ministries, departments, 4. Adopt accountability mechanisms to systems, and sectors to employ an integrated assess the system’s progress towards systems approach to proactively address proactively addressing the needs the diverse needs of youth at risk of of youth at risk of homelessness or homelessness or experiencing homelessness. experiencing homelessness. 2. Implement policy, strategies, training, and accountability mechanisms to support anticolonial, anti-oppressive, solutions- and equity-oriented practice among frontline and managerial staff in all public systems who work with youth. All systems should develop targeted approaches to meet the needs of youth who are often served least well by public systems. Systems should be particularly attentive to ensuring equity for youth with disabilities, youth with mental health and addiction challenges, Indigenous youth, poor youth, youth at risk of homelessness or experiencing homelessness, and youth experiencing abuse or neglect. 5. Implement highly accessible mechanisms through which children and youth, and their caregivers or advocates, can report system failures, violations of their rights, and failures of system actors to respond ethically, adequately, or equitably. 6. Work across departments, ministries, and sectors to ensure housing stability and ongoing supports and services for young people who are transitioning from mental health care, child protection services, and corrections. This must involve harmonizing data and assessment tools to ensure youth leaving systems of care do not transition into homelessness. 3. Provide integrated, ongoing, and meaningful training and supports for all system workers to ensure staff employ equitable, evidence-based practices in their interactions with youth at risk of homelessness or experiencing homelessness. Training and supports must be adequately resourced with targeted investments, enabling workers sufficient time and supports to ensure their approach aligns with evidence-based practices. WHAT WOULD IT TAKE? 17
Page 1 and 2: WHAT WOULD IT TAKE? Youth Across Ca
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Page 5 and 6: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Are we making sig
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Page 19 and 20: INTRODUCTION Youth homelessness in
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Page 25 and 26: CONSULTATION PROCESS National consu
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2.1 EDUCATION For young people who
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2. Professional Training For the mo
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Investments • Provide significant
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“Educating teachers, principals,
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Experiences in Foster Care Many you
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Difficult Transitions from Care Tra
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“My parents were good enough at l
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2.3 HEALTHCARE & ADDICTIONS For you
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An additional issue raised by many
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MOVING FORWARD Without a Home: The
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2.4 YOUTH HOMELESSNESS SECTOR In fo
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“Requirements to access help some
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“Yeah, when I first moved in [to
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PREVENTING YOUTH HOMELESSNESS IN TH
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While the recommendations below can
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2.5 CRIMINAL JUSTICE A common conce
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PREVENTING YOUTH HOMELESSNESS IN TH
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MOVING FORWARD Canadian research sh
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WHAT WOULD IT TAKE? 3. PREVENTING I
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ADDRESSING FAMILY CONFLICT, ABUSE,
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“This is real. We did not choose
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Lack of services and supports also
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MOVING FORWARD Youth across the cou
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ADDRESSING SOCIAL EXCLUSION & ISOLA
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“I’m just trying to say that, i
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ADDRESSING VIOLENCE IN THE COMMUNIT
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YOUTH’S MESSAGES TO ALL LEVELS OF
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We need to dramatically shift our a
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RECOMMENDATIONS 1 GOVERNMENT OF CAN
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5. Align ministerial, departmental,
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2. Embed youth homelessness prevent
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INTEGRATED GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS 1. W
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3. Require that all school boards a
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5. Offer comprehensive, youth-focus
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8. Systematically investigate and e
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Provincial/Territorial Ministries R
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6. Seek to provide highly integrate
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3. Foster meaningful youth engageme
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Gaetz, S., O’Grady, B., Kidd, S.,
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Statistics Canada. (2011). National
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