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Media Advisory: Canada’s Hidden Emergency: University of Ottawa welcomes research forum on homelessness
OTTAWA, November 18, 2010 — The Alliance to End Homelessness in Ottawa, in collaboration with the University of Ottawa’s Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services, invites you to its annual research forum. For the first time, Dr. Stephen Hwang will discuss Housing Vulnerability and Health: Canada’s Hidden Emergency, a study of longitudinal changes in the health and housing status of vulnerably housed and homeless people in Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa.
Dr. Stephen Hwang is an associate professor in the Department of Medicine and director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto, and a research scientist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. He is also the research lead for the Research Alliance for Canadian Homelessness, Housing and Health (REACH3).
WHAT: 2010 Community Forum on Homelessness
WHEN: Friday, November 19, 2010, 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: University of Ottawa, Tabaret Hall, 550 Cumberland, room 112
Lectures and presentations during the forum include:
- Identifying Patterns of Emergency Shelter Stays in Three Ontario Cities, with research carried out by Tim Aubry and Melissa Calhoun of the University of Ottawa, and Susan Farrell of the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group
- Suicide and Drug Overdose Among Street Youth in Montreal, presented by Isabelle Richer, Université de Sherbrooke
- Update on InSite by Liz Evans, PHS Community Services Society in Vancouver
- Preventing Homelessness: Developing the Homelessness Asset and Risk Tool (HART) by Bruce MacLaurin, University of Calgary
Alina Tanasescu, vice president of research and public policy at the Calgary Homeless Foundation (CHF), will close the forum with a talk on the lessons learned by the CHF through a review of its history and the significance of Calgary’s 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness.
The Community Forum on Homelessness is organized by the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa, a non-partisan coalition taking action to end homelessness through its priorities of advocacy, partnerships and research.
The Alliance to End Homelessness and St. Michael's Hospital have advance copies of Housing Vulnerability and Health: Canada's Hidden Emergency in English and French available for reporters upon request. Reporters are asked to respect an embargo on reporting the findings until 9:30 a.m. ET on Friday, Nov 19.
