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Indigenous homelessness : perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Being homeless in one's homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenouspeoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related attempts at assimilation that disrupted Indigenous practices, languages, and cultures-including patterns of housing and land use-can be seen today in the disproportionate number of Indigenous people affected by homelessness in both rural and urban settings.Essays in this collection explore the meaning and scope of Indigenous homelessness in the Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. They argue that effective policy and support programs aimed at relieving Indigenous homelessness must be rooted in Indigenous conceptions of home, land, and kinship, and cannot ignore the context of systemic inequality, institutionalization, landlessness, among other things, that stem from a history of colonialism.\"Indigenous Homelessness: Perspectives from Canada, New Zealand and Australia\" provides a comprehensive exploration of the Indigenous experience of homelessness. It testifies to ongoing cultural resilience and lays the groundwork for practices and policies designed to better address the conditions that lead to homelessness among Indigenous peoples.
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From the ashes : my story of being Métis, homeless, and finding my way
\"From the Ashes is a remarkable memoir about hope and resilience, and a revelatory look into the life of a Métis-Cree man who refused to give up. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Jesse Thistle briefly found himself in the foster-care system with his two brothers, cut off from all they had known. Eventually the children landed in the home of their paternal grandparents, but their tough-love attitudes meant conflicts became commonplace. And the ghost of Jesse's drug-addicted father haunted the halls of the house and the memories of every family member. Struggling, Jesse succumbed to a self-destructive cycle of drug and alcohol addiction and petty crime, spending more than a decade on and off the streets, often homeless. One day, he finally realized he would die unless he turned his life around. In this heartwarming and heartbreaking memoir, Jesse Thistle writes honestly and fearlessly about his painful experiences with abuse, uncovering the truth about his parents, and how he found his way back into the circle of his Indigenous culture and family through education. An eloquent exploration of what it means to live in a world surrounded by prejudice and racism and to be cast adrift, From the Ashes is, in the end, about how love and support can help one find happiness despite the odds.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Housing the Homeless and Poor
Multiversities are sprawling conglomerates that provide liberal undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. As well-springs of innovation and ideas, these universities represent the core of society's research enterprise.Multiversities, Ideas, and Democracyforcibly argues that, in the contemporary world, multiversities need to be conceptualized in a new way, that is, not just as places of teaching and research, but also as fundamental institutions of democracy.
Building upon the history of universities, George Fallis discusses how the multiversity is a distinctive product of the later twentieth century and has become an institution of centrality and power. He examines five characteristics of our age - the constrained welfare state, the information technology revolution, postmodern thought, commercialization, and globalization - and in each case explains how the dynamic of multiversity research alters societal circumstances, leading to the alteration of the institution itself and creating challenges to its own survival. The character of our age demands reappraisal of the multiversity, Fallis argues, in order to safeguard them from so-called 'mission drift.' Writing from a multi-national perspective, this study establishes how similar ideas are shaping multiversities across the Anglo-American world.
Ultimately,Multiversities, Ideas, and Democracyseeks to uncover the ethos of the multiversity and to hold such institutions accountable for their contribution to democratic life. It will appeal to anyone interested in the role of education in society.
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Money boy
After his Chinese immigrant father discovers he has been cruising gay websites, eighteen-year-old Ray Liu is kicked out of the house and heads to downtown Toronto, where he faces the harsh realities of life on the street.
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Calgary's Biennial Count of Homeless Persons: 14 Years and Counting
Every two years since 1992, The City of Calgary has conducted a census, or \"count,\" of homeless persons. This provides information that is used for ongoing research and planning activities at The City and in the community. The 2004 count provided important new information on the community response to homelessness in Calgary. It more than doubled the number of facilities that were surveyed in 2002 to provide a comprehensive picture of the homeless-serving community in Calgary. It also enlarged the borders of the \"street count\" to include many new areas where homeless persons are known to live. This new comprehensive baseline was added to again in 2006, when a total of 51 facilities, nine service agencies, and 157 volunteer street enumerators participated in the Biennial Count of Homeless Persons in Calgary on May 10. In total, 3,436 homeless persons were enumerated that night: 2,823 in facilities, 184 by service agencies, arid 429 on the streets. This paper discusses the evolution of the Biennial Count of Homeless Persons in Calgary and summarizes the findings of the 2006 count. Adapted from the source document.
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\Managing\ Homeless Youth in Toronto: Mismanaging Food Access and Nutritional Well-being
Current policy responses to the growing problem of homelessness in Canada appear to be directed towards the \"management\" of this problem through the provision of community-based services and supports to meet the immediate needs of homeless people, along with the introduction of law enforcement policies and practices to restrict homeless people's activities, and particularly those related to generating income. To date, however, there has been little critical examination of the impact of these responses on the health and well-being of homeless people. Through interviews with a sample of 261 homeless youth in Toronto, we documented homeless young people's everyday experiences of current policy directions from the perspective of access to food. The high levels of nutritional vulnerability among these youth suggest that the proliferation of \"emergency\" food relief programs is not effectively meeting the nutritional needs of at least this one subgroup of homeless people in Toronto, Further, local efforts to \"control\" homeless youth through heightened community policing and the criminalization of panhandling and squeegeeing target strategies commonly used to garner money for food. Future debates about programs, policies, and legislation directed towards homeless groups ought to consider their potential impact, however incidental, on the nutritional well-being of their target population. Our research highlights the need for a more effective solution so that homeless young people can adequately nourish themselves so they can find and sustain employment, education, and housing and ultimately make the transition out of homelessness. The most appropriate solution to the nutritional vulnerability of homeless people is to make them not homeless. Adapted from the source document.
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Clinical guideline for homeless and vulnerably housed people, and people with lived homelessness experience
Pottie et al discuss the clinical guideline for homeless and vulnerably housed people, and people with lived homelessness experience. Homelessness encompasses all individuals without stable, permanent and acceptable housing, or lacking the immediate prospect, means and ability of acquiring it. Clinical assessment and care of homeless and vulnerably housed populations should include tailoring approaches to a person's gender, age, Indigenous heritage, ethnicity and history of trauma; and advocacy for comprehensive primary health care. As initial steps in the care of homeless and vulnerably housed populations, permanent supportive housing is strongly recommended, and income assistance is also recommended. Case-management interventions, with access to psychiatric support, are recommended as an initial step to support primary care and to address existing mental health, substance use and other morbidities.
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Body Louse Pathogen Surveillance among Persons Experiencing Homelessness, Canada, 2020–2021
We analyzed body lice collected from persons experiencing homelessness in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, during 2020-2021 to confirm vector species and ecotype and to identify louseborne pathogens. Of 556 lice analyzed from 7 persons, 17 louse pools (218 lice) from 1 person were positive for the louseborne bacterium Bartonella quintana.
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Late-Life Homelessness
Late-Life Homelessness is the first Canadian book to address this often neglected issue. Drawing from a four-year ethnographic study of late-life homelessness in Montreal, Canada, Amanda Grenier uses a critical gerontological perspective to explore life at the intersection of older age and homelessness.
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