The Learning Community

Housing

The purpose of the Housing Working Group is to support organizations and communities to better respond to the housing needs of youth within their local context.

Indigenous Youth

The purpose of the Indigenous Youth Working Group is to support youth service providers to develop policies and procedures that create/maintain/enhance/strengthen safe and welcoming space for youth program participants, particularly Indigenous youth, as they are overrepresented in homeless populations.

Prevention

The purpose of the Prevention Task Force is to support organizations shift towards implementing a prevention philosophy and framework.

Youth Voice

Youth experiencing homelessness know what supports are necessary and also how systems have failed them. The National Learning Community on Youth Homelessness is committed to creating space for youth to engage in the national conversation and be a key partner in plans to end youth homelessness.

OUR WORK

Rapid Re-Housing Handbook

This handbook provides guidance on implementing, evaluating, and refining rapid re-housing programs for youth.

Host Homes Handbook

This handbook provides guidance on implementing, evaluating, and refining rapid re-housing programs for youth.

Roadmap for the Prevention of Youth Homelessness

The Roadmap for the Prevention of Youth Homelessness aims to function as a useful guide to the critical role that prevention should play in a comprehensive systems response to youth homelessness, detailing evidence-based and informed program areas that will help service providers, advocates, communities, researchers, and governments to implement plans to prevent and end youth homelessness.

Without A Home: The National Youth Homelessness Survey

The Without a Home study is the first pan-Canadian study of young people who experience homelessness. With 1,103 respondents from 47 different communities across 10 provinces and territories, this study’s sample size has enabled us to conduct detailed analyses and to draw important conclusions.

National Housing Strategy Recommendations

The Learning Community has designed six recommendations that are required in the National Housing Strategy to ensure the strategy prevents and ends youth homelessness.

Youth Homelessness Community Planning Toolkit

To support the enhanced capacity to respond to youth homelessness in unique local contexts across Canada, A Way Home has developed this toolkit to help communities create plans to prevent, reduce and end homelessness among young people.

Youth Rights! Right Now!

Youth homelessness is a pressing issue worldwide that requires urgent attention. To help address the issue, a collaborative group of organizations from Canada and Europe have developed Youth Rights! Right Now! Ending Youth Homelessness: A Human Rights Guide for grounding strategies to end youth homelessness in international human rights law.

LGBTQ2S Toolkit

The idea behind the LGBTQ2S Toolkit is that if staff are trained to have cultural competency on LGBTQ2S issues and organizations have inclusive tools like policies and forms, then youth will have better experiences in our spaces and programs.

Housing First Framework for Youth

The need for a consideration of how Housing First works for young people (aged 13-25) is based on concerns raised by policy-makers, practitioners and indeed, young persons themselves, about the applicability of models and approaches developed for adults who are homeless, when applied to a youthful population.

Coming of Age Report

The goal of this report is to present an argument for approaching how we respond to youth homelessness in a new way. The report achieves this by pulling together key information about youth homelessness, to better inform how we respond to the problem.