Responding to Youth Homelessness during COVID-19 and Beyond: Perspectives from the Youth-Serving Sector in Canada

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorBuchnea, Amanda
dc.contributor.authorMcKitterick, Mary-Jane
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-15T15:34:45Z
dc.date.available2023-06-15T15:34:45Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThe gaps and weaknesses in our social safety net have been laid bare when we see the impacts of the pandemic on young people at-risk of or experiencing homelessness and the youth-serving sector itself. Understanding the youth-serving sector’s need for early-stage, applied research and evidence on the impacts of COVID-19, A Way Home Canada and the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness conducted an initial survey in March, 2020 to identify the emergent trends, opportunities and challenges across Canada, as well as the ways we could support the sector throughout the pandemic. The resulting report, Summary Report: Youth Homelessness & COVID-19 - How the Youth-Serving Sector is Coping with the Crisis, was published in April, 2020. Respondents to this survey indicated a desire to stay connected to the broader network of service providers across Canada in order to share and receive information and discuss emerging challenges. As a result, A Way Home Canada has hosted weekly national COVID-19 Community of Practice calls for youth-serving agencies, which are still ongoing. The second survey was launched, seeking to dig deeper into the questions and insights from the first survey and the COVID-19 Community of Practice calls. The first of three sections of this report explores what service providers in organizations across Canada had to say about some of the impacts COVID-19 has had on the young people they serve. The second section highlights ways that the youth-serving sector has been impacted by and coped with the crisis. In the final section, we identify essential action areas for better responding to crises like COVID-19 and chart a way forward into recovery and rebuilding.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipWe would also like to thank David French and our teams at A Way Home Canada, the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, and Making the Shift Inc. for providing insight, support and assistance in the production and design of this report.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBuchnea, A. & McKitterick, M. (2020). Responding to youth homelessness during COVID-19 and beyond: Perspectives from the youth-serving sector in Canada. Toronto, ON: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press and A Way Home Canada.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781550146769
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/41205
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCanadian Observatory on Homelessness Pressen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.titleResponding to Youth Homelessness during COVID-19 and Beyond: Perspectives from the Youth-Serving Sector in Canadaen_US
dc.typeReporten_US

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
Thumbnail Image
Name:
2-CV-19[Summary][V2]_0.pdf
Size:
1.17 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
Thumbnail Image
Name:
2-CV-19[Executive][V2]_0.pdf
Size:
738.02 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.83 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download

Collections

The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness - Publications

All items in the YorkSpace institutional repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved except where explicitly noted.