Summary
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness offers the Homelessness Learning Hub. The Hub supports learning with free practical resources to help prevent and end homelessness.
The Youth Homelessness Prevention Toolkit helps communities take action to prevent youth homelessness. It offers key facts, planning tools, and training resources to support prevention efforts. It also offers learning guides and modules on youth homelessness prevention approaches.
Policy & Practice Implications
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Community organizations can use the toolkit to make a case for prevention, strengthen homelessness plans, and improve coordination.
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Program leaders can use the guides and trainings to build staff capacity for prevention.
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Policy makers can use the toolkit to understand the need for prevention and build support for community efforts. They can share the toolkit with the community to support prevention.
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