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Housing Stability & the Prevention of Homelessness Preventing - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Housing Stability & the Prevention of Homelessness Preventing - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Housing Stability & the Prevention of Homelessness Preventing Homelessness Primary Prevention Secondary Prevention Tertiary Prevention Lessons Learned from Suicide Prevention Integration of education Community-wide approach and
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Primary Prevention
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Secondary Prevention
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Tertiary Prevention
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Lessons Learned from Suicide Prevention
- Integration of education
- Community-wide approach and plan
- Targeting
- Focusing on root causes
- Continual evaluation and feedback
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Underlying Best Practices Prevention Approaches Root causes Targeting and early intervention Community-wide approach and plan: integration of services Continuous evaluation and feedback
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Best Practices in Action 1.Overview of approach 2.The best practices learned 3.The challenges experienced 4.Advice should you want to try this at home
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Vision: community well-being through housing education and support Mission: to deliver housing education and related services
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Education, certificate and supports
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Increasing Housing Stability
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Over 2000 participants since 2009 100% said knowledge increased 92% said confidence increased 86% said maintaining their housing was easier 72% said finding a place to rent was easier 66% used the RentSmart certificate 70% said it helped them in securing their housing
2015 P Participant I Impa pact S Survey ey
Education is key...
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Best Practices: Population-Specific
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Challenges:
Population-specific Education seems simple Prevention can be hard to measure
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Underlying Best Practices Prevention Approaches Root causes Targeting and early intervention Community-wide approach and plan: integration of services Continuous evaluation and feedback
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Underlying Best Practices Prevention Approaches Root causes Targeting and early intervention Community-wide approach and plan: integration of services Continuous evaluation and feedback
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Homelessness Prevention Fund
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Underlying Best Practices Prevention Approaches Root causes Targeting and early intervention Community-wide approach and plan: integration of services Continuous evaluation and feedback
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Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness
Housing Stability and Prevention of Homelessness System Response
Don Elliott Executive Director
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Organizational Overview
- Formed in 2008.
- Consists of service providers, non-profit organizations, all
levels of government, businesses, postsecondary institutions, the faith community, people with a lived experience of homelessness, and members of the community.
- Approximately 41 distinct organizations.
- Vision: A Region without Homelessness
- Mission
1. To ensure appropriate solutions are in place to serve those individuals experiencing chronic homelessness in the Capital Region. 2. To ensure all people facing homelessness in the Capital Region have access to safe, affordable, appropriate, long-term housing.
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Role in Stability & Prevention
- Primary Prevention
- Regional Housing First Program (affordable component)
- Aboriginal Coalition to End Homelessness Society
- Secondary Prevention
- Homelessness Prevention Fund
- Landlord Liaison Services
- Housing Stability Policy
- Tertiary Prevention
- Regional Housing First Program (supported component)
- Priority One Task Force
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System Response
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System Response
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System Response
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System Response
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System Response
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Challenges
- Coalition Identity – Different meanings to different
stakeholders.
- Tensions Between Institutional Logics – Social justice,
root causes, efficient action, planning and community accountability.
- Coordination and Communication – Essential across
all stakeholders.
- Ensuring Inclusivity – Time consuming and complex,
but critical to achieving objectives.
- Funding – Few programs support region-wide planning
and collaboration activities.
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Takeaways
- Clear goals and targets.
- Region-wide homelessness intervention system
that includes targeted prevention strategies.
- Robust information sharing systems across
agencies.
- High degree of collaboration among different
stakeholders.
- Knowledge transfer and shared learning.
- Resources available in support of collective efforts.
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Underlying Best Practices Prevention Approaches Root causes Targeting and early intervention Community-wide approach and plan: integration of services Continuous evaluation and feedback
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To improve policy, practice and community connections for young people transitioning from foster care to adulthood.
Our Focus
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- HOME
- RELATIONSHIPS
- WORK
- EDUCATION
- WELL-BEING
- COMMUNITY
A Good Life
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1. Youth engagement 2. Community capacity 3. Shared Learning, Evaluation & Research 4. Communications and public engagement
Our Approach
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Shared Learning, Evaluation & Research
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Principles
- Through our work, we want to demonstrate what success can look like
for young people transitioning out of foster care – at the individual youth, community and system levels.
- We want our work and what we are learning to influence positive change
in policy and practice.
- We want to contribute to and build the body of evidence showing what
works and what does not work (and in what context)
- We are open to emergent learning, to uncovering barriers and exploring
- pportunities
- We want learning to underpin everything we do, to be an inherent
component of all of our strategies and activities
- We embrace a developmental evaluation approach, which supports
adaptation in complex, uncertain and dynamic conditions
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“No go. The evaluation committee said it doesn’t meet utility specs. They want something linear, stable, controllable, and targeted to reach a pre-set destination. They couldn’t see any use for this.”
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