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